Allied Telesis AT-8900 Series manual Introduction, Best Practice On-Site Debugging

Best Practice On-Site Debugging

Introduction

This How To Note describes techniques for on-site debugging. It is in no way intended to be a comprehensive guide to debugging Allied Telesis equipment. Instead, it is aimed at passing on some techniques that have been found to be useful. Particularly, this document describes techniques which:

zmake it less likely that you will miss important pieces of information

zmake it simpler for someone else to analyse the debug information that you capture

zenable you to be more accurate in after-the-event discussions of what you saw.

Which products does it apply to?

This document applies to the following Allied Telesis routers and managed layer 3 switches:

zAR300, AR400, and AR700 series routers

zAT-8600, AT-8700XL, AT-8800, Rapier, and Rapier i series switches

zAT-9800 series switches

zAT-8900, AT-9900, and AT-9900s series switches

zx900 series switches

zSwitchBlade series switches

Related How To Notes

You also may find the following How To Notes useful, because they specifically discuss how to debug connections:

zHow To Troubleshoot ISDN Connections

zHow To Troubleshoot VPNs

Note that many other How To Notes include troubleshooting information as well as configuration examples.

How To Notes are available from www.alliedtelesis.com/resources/literature/howto.aspx.

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