First of all take a look at the over health of the switch:
| Command | Explanation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| switchstatusshow | Provides an overview of the general components of the switch. These all need to show up HEALTHY and not (as shown here) as "Marginal" | Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128:FID128:admin> switchstatusshow Switch Health Report Report time: 06/20/2013 06:19:17 AM Switch Name: Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128 IP address: 10.129.2.143 SwitchState: MARGINAL Duration: 214:29 Temperatures monitor HEALTHY Fans monitor HEALTHY WWN servers monitor HEALTHY CP monitor HEALTHY Blades monitor HEALTHY Core Blades monitor HEALTHY Flash monitor HEALTHY Marginal ports monitor HEALTHY Faulty ports monitor HEALTHY Missing SFPs monitor HEALTHY Error ports monitor HEALTHY All ports are healthy |
| switchshow |
Provides a general overview of logical switch status (no physical components) plus a list of ports and their status.
The switchState should alway be online.
The switchDomain should have a unique ID in the fabric.
If zoning is configured it should be in the "ON" state.
As for the ports connected these should all be "Online" for connected and operational ports. If you see ports showing "No_Sync" whereby the port is notdisabled there is likely a cable or SFP/HBA problem.
If you have configured FabricWatch to enable portfencing you'll see indications like here with port 75
Obviously for any port to work it should be enabled.
| Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128:FID128:admin> switchshow switchName: Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128 switchType: 77.3 switchState: Online switchMode: Native switchRole: Principal switchDomain: 143 switchId: fffc8f switchWwn: 10:00:00:05:1e:52:af:00 zoning: ON (Brocade) switchBeacon: OFF FC Router: OFF Fabric Name: FID 128 Allow XISL Use: OFF LS Attributes: [FID: 128, Base Switch: No, Default Switch: Yes, Address Mode 0] ============================================================ 0 1 0 8f0000 id 4G Online FC E-Port 10:00:00:05:1e:36:02:bc "BR48000_1_IP146" (downstream)(Trunk master) 1 1 1 8f0100 id N8 Online FC F-Port 50:06:0e:80:06:cf:28:59 2 1 2 8f0200 id N8 Online FC F-Port 50:06:0e:80:06:cf:28:79 3 1 3 8f0300 id N8 Online FC F-Port 50:06:0e:80:06:cf:28:39 4 1 4 8f0400 id 4G No_Sync FC Disabled (Persistent) 5 1 5 8f0500 id N2 Online FC F-Port 50:06:0e:80:14:39:3c:15 6 1 6 8f0600 id 4G No_Sync FC Disabled (Persistent) 7 1 7 8f0700 id 4G No_Sync FC Disabled (Persistent) 8 1 8 8f0800 id N8 Online FC F-Port 50:06:0e:80:13:27:36:30
75 2 11 8f4b00 id N8 No_Sync FC Disabled (FOP Port State Change threshold exceeded)
76 2 12 8f4c00 id N4 No_Light FC Disabled (Persistent) |
| sfpshow <slot>/<port> |
One of the most important pieces of a link irrespective of mode and distance is the SFP. On newer hardware and software it provides a lot of info on the overall health of the link.
With older FOS codes there could have been a discrepancy of what was displayed in this output as to what actually was plugged in the port. The reason was that the SFP's get polled so every now and then for status and update information. If a port was persistent disabled it didn't update at all so in theory you plug in another SFP but sfpshow would still display the old info. With FOS 7.0.1 and up this has been corrected and you can also see the latest polling time per SFP now.
The question we often get is: "What should these values be?". The answer is "It depends". As you can imagine a shortwave 4G SFP required less amps then a longwave 100KM SFP so in essence the SFP specs should be consulted. As a ROT you can say that signal quality depends ont he TX power value minus the link-loss budget. The result should be within the RX Power specifications of the receiving SFP.
Also check the Current and Voltage of the SFP. If an SFP is broken the indication is often it draws no power at all and you'll see these two dropping to zero.
| Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128:FID128:admin> sfpshow 1/1 Identifier: 3 SFP Connector: 7 LC Transceiver: 540c404000000000 2,4,8_Gbps M5,M6 sw Short_dist Encoding: 1 8B10B Baud Rate: 85 (units 100 megabaud) Length 9u: 0 (units km) Length 9u: 0 (units 100 meters) Length 50u (OM2): 5 (units 10 meters) Length 50u (OM3): 0 (units 10 meters) Length 62.5u:2 (units 10 meters) Length Cu: 0 (units 1 meter) Vendor Name: BROCADE Vendor OUI: 00:05:1e Vendor PN: 57-1000012-01 Vendor Rev: A Wavelength: 850 (units nm) Options: 003a Loss_of_Sig,Tx_Fault,Tx_Disable BR Max: 0 BR Min: 0 Serial No: UAF110480000NYP Date Code: 101125 DD Type: 0x68 Enh Options: 0xfa Status/Ctrl: 0x80 Alarm flags[0,1] = 0x5, 0x0 Warn Flags[0,1] = 0x5, 0x0 Alarm Warn low high low high Temperature: 25 Centigrade -10 90 -5 85 Current: 6.322 mAmps 1.000 17.000 2.000 14.000 Voltage: 3290.2 mVolts 2900.0 3700.0 3000.0 3600.0 RX Power: -3.2 dBm (476.2uW) 10.0 uW 1258.9 uW 15.8 uW 1000.0 uW TX Power: -3.3 dBm (472.9 uW) 125.9 uW 631.0 uW 158.5 uW 562.3 uW Last poll time: 06-20-2013 EST Thu 06:48:28 |
| porterrshow |
For link state counters this is the most useful command in the switch however there is a perception that this command provides a "silver" bullet to solve port and link issues but that is not the case. Basically it provides a snapshot of the content of the LESB (Link Error Status Block) of a port at that particular point in time. It does not tell us when these counters have accumulated and over which time frame. So in order to create a sensible picture of the statuses of the ports we need a baseline. This baseline can be created to reset all counters and start from zero. To do this issue the "statsclear" command on the cli.
There are 7 columns you should pay attention to from a physical perspective.
enc_in - Encoding errors inside frames. These are errors that happen on the FC1 with encoding 8 to 10 bits and back or, with 10G and 16G FC from 64 bits to 66 and back. Since these happen on the bits that are part of a data frame these are counted in this column.
crc_err - An enc_in error might lead to a CRC error however this column shows frames that have been market as invalid frames because of this crc-error earlier in the datapath. According to FC specifications it is up to the implementation of the programmer if he wants to discard the frame right away or mark it as invalid and send it to the destination anyway. There are pro's and con's on both scenarios. So basically if you see crc_err in this column it means the port has received a frame with an incorrect crc but this occurred further upstream.
crc_g_eof - This column is the same as crc_err however the incoming frames areNOT marked as invalid. If you see these most often the enc_in counter increases as well but not necessarily. If the enc_in and/or enc_out column increases as well there is a physical link issue which could be resolved by cleaning connectors, replacing a cable or (in rare cases) replacing the SFP and/or HBA. If the enc_in and enc_out columns do NOT increase there is an issue between the SERDES chip and the SFP which causes the CRC to mismatch the frame. This is a firmware issue which could be resolved by upgrading to the latest FOS code. There are a couple of defects listed to track these.
enc_out - Similar to enc_in this is the same encoding error however this error was outside normal frame boundaries i.e. no host IO frame was impacted. This may seem harmless however be aware that a lot of primitive signals and sequences travel in between normal data frame which are paramount for fibre-channel operations. Especially primitives which regulate credit flow. (R_RDY and VC_RDY) and signal clock synchronization are important. If this column increases on any port you'll likely run into performance problems sooner or later or you will see a problem with link stability and sync-errors (see below).
Link_Fail - This means a port has received a NOS (Not Operational) primitive from the remote side and it needs to change the port operational state to LF1 (Link Fail 1) after which the recovery sequence needs to commence. (See the FC-FS standards specification for that)
Loss_Sync - Loss of synchronization. The transmitter and receiver side of the link maintain a clock synchronization based on primitive signals which start with a certain bit pattern (K28.5). If the receiver is not able to sync its baud-rate to the rate where it can distinguish between these primitives it will lose sync and hence it cannot determine when a data frame starts.
Loss_Sig - Loss of Signal. This column shows a drop of light i.e. no light (or insufficient RX power) is observed for over 100ms after which the port will go into a non-active state. This counter increases often when the link-loss budget is overdrawn. If, for instance, a TX side sends out light with -4db and the receiver lower sensitivity threshold is -12 db. If the quality of the cable deteriorates the signal to a value lower than that threshold, you will see the port bounce very often and this counter increases. Another culprit is often unclean connectors, patch-panels and badly made fibre splices. These ports should be shut down immediately and the cabling plant be checked. Replacing cables and/or bypassing patch-panels is often a quick way to find out where the problem is.
The other columns are more related to protocol issues and/or performance problems which could be the result of a physical problem but not be a cause. In short look at these 7 columns mentioned above and check if no port increases a value.
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too_short/too_long - indicates a protocol error where SOF or EOF are observed too soon or too late. These two columns rarely increase.
bad_eof - Bad End-of-Frame. This column indicates an issue where the sender has observed and abnormality in a frame or it's transceiver whilst the frameheader and portions of the payload where already send to its destination. The only way for a transceiver to notify the destination is to invalidate the frame. It truncates the frame and add an EOFni or EOFa to the end. This signals the destination that the frame is corrupt and should be discarded.
F_Rjt and F_Bsy are often seen in Ficon environments where control frames could not be processes in time or are rejected based on fabric configuration or fabric status.
c3timout (tx/rx) - These are counters which indicate that a port is not able to forward a frame in time to it's destination. These either show a problem downstream of this port (tx) or a problem on this port where it has received a frame meant to be forwarded to another port inside the sames switch. (rx). Frames are ALWAYS discarded at the RX side (since that's where the buffers hold the frame). The tx column is an aggregate of all rx ports that needs to send frames via this port according to the routing tables created by FSPF.
pcs_err - Physical Coding Sublayer - These values represent encoding errors on 16G platforms and above. Since 16G speeds have changed to 64/66 bits encoding/decoding there is a separate control structure that takes car of this.
As a best practise is it wise to keep a trace of these port errors and create a new baseline every week. This allows you to quickly identify errors and solve these before they can become an problem with an elongated resolution time. Make sure you do this fabric-wide to maintain consistency across all switches in that fabric.
| Sydney_ILAB_DCX-4S_LS128:FID128:admin> porterrshow frames enc crc crc too too bad enc disc link loss loss frjt fbsy c3timeout pcs tx rx in err g_eof shrt long eof out c3 fail sync sig tx rx err 0: 100.1m 53.4m 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1: 466.6k 154.5k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2: 476.9k 973.7k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3: 474.2k 155.0k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
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