Dell 32XX, 34XX, 38XX, 36XX manual Diagnose Remote Replication, CableDiagnostics

Parameter	Description
testID	Specifies the identifier for the diagnostic test you
	want to run. For this diagnostic test, the value is
	cableDiagnostics.

Notes

When you run the cable diagnostic test, the firmware returns the following information:

•Port: The port on which the diagnostic test was run.

•The date and time the test was run.

•RAID Controller Module

•Status:

–OK: All of the pairs of cables are good and do not have any faults.

–Open: One or more of the four pairs of cables are open.

–Short: One or more of the four pairs of cables are shorted.

•Incomplete: One or more of the four pairs returned incomplete or invalid test results.

•Cable Length: The length of the cables are listed in meters and the following information about the cables is returned:

–When the cable status is OK, the approximate lengths of the cable pairs are returned. The lengths of the cable pairs are shown as a range (L1-L2), which are the shortest and the longest lengths of the cable pairs.

–If the cable status is Open or Short, the approximate distance to the failure in the cable pairs. If there is one failure, the length is reported for that cable pair. If there is more than one failure, the information returned is both the shortest and longest lengths to the failures. The lengths are listed as a range (L1-L2) where L1<L2.

–If the cable status is Incomplete, the information returned are the lengths for the shortest and longest cable pairs that the firmware can successfully test. The lengths are listed for the valid cable pairs as a range (L1-L2) where L1<L2.

•Raw Register values for the cable diagnostic registers. The values are in a hexadecimal format:

–Two bytes show the combined cable status (four bits per port).

–Four two-byte numbers show the length of each channel.

Diagnose Remote Replication

Description

NOTE: This command valid only with Fibre Channel storage arrays.

This command tests the connection between the specified primary virtual disks and the replication virtual disks on a storage array with the Remote Replication premium feature enabled.

Syntax

diagnose remoteReplication (primary [primaryVirtualDiskName] primaries [primaryVirtualDiskName1 ...

primaryVirtualDiskNameN]) testID=connectivity

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