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Chapter
4
Monitoring System Components
In this chapter
Monitoring overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Determining the status of a port, application, or encryption blade. . . . . . . 44
Determining the status of a control processor blade (CP8). . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Determining the status of a core switch blade (CR16-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Determining the status of a power supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Determining the status of a blower assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Determining the status of a WWN card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Monitoring overview

The Brocade DCX 8510-4 is engineered for reliability and requires no routine operational steps or
maintenance. This chapter provides information about determining the status of each component
using LEDs and CLI commands. Refer to the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide and the Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide for additional information.
There are two commands that can be especially helpful in monitoring the health of the Brocade
DCX 8510-4. These commands are switchShow and chassisShow. Examples of these commands
are shown below.
Note in the switchShow command the new switchType for the Brocade DCX 8510-4 as well as the
16 Gbps speed identification for capable ports. The output has been truncated to reduce
information duplication.
DCX-4_130:admin> switchshow
switchName: DCX-4_130
switchType: 121.3
switchState: Online
switchMode: Native
switchRole: Principal
switchDomain: 130
switchId: fffc82
switchWwn: 10:00:00:05:33:03:2c:00
zoning: ON (BB)
switchBeacon: OFF
FC Router: ON
FC Router BB Fabric ID: 10
Address Mode: 0
Index Slot Port Address Media Speed State Proto
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