Chapter 3 Bringing Up the Cisco IOS XR Software on a Multishelf System

Bringing Up and Verifying FCCs

 

Command or Action

Purpose

 

 

 

Step 4 show controllers fabric connectivity all detail

Displays the LCC cards that can communicate

 

 

with all eight fabric planes.

 

Example:

The expected output should contain a

 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(admin)# show controllers fabric

series of ‘1’s for each of the fabric planes

 

connectivity all detail

active in the system. If a fabric plane is

 

 

administratively “shutdown” the output of

 

 

the command above remains the same. If

 

 

the fabric card is physically removed or

 

 

powered down, the “1” changes to “.”

 

 

 

Step 5 On the external Catalyst switches, verify that the links are not

Verifies that the links from the chassis to the

 

unidirectional.

external Catalyst switches are operating

 

 

correctly.

 

 

If a unidirectional link is present, a loop

 

 

may occur.

 

 

For instructions to verify the Catalyst

 

 

links, see the “Verifying the Catalyst

 

 

Switch” section on page 3-18. The

 

 

verification commands must be entered

 

 

from a terminal directly connected to the

 

 

external Catalyst switches, using

 

 

Cisco IOS CLI commands.

 

 

 

Examples

This section contains an example for the following task:

Verify That All Fabric Planes Are Ready to Handle Data, page 3-36

Verify That All Fabric Planes Are Ready to Handle Data

In the following examples, the fabric planes are examined in administration EXEC mode to ensure that they are ready to handle traffic.

show controllers fabric rack all detail

In the following example, the rack status is normal and the server status is present.

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(admin)# show controllers fabric rack all detail

Rack

Rack

Server

Num

Status

Status

----

------

------

0

NORMAL

PRESENT

1

NORMAL

PRESENT

F0

NORMAL

PRESENT

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(admin)#

show controllers fabric plane all detail

In the following example, all eight planes are displayed, and the administrative and operational state of each plane is up.

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(admin)# show controllers fabric plane all detail

 

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