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Maintenance Commands
Panic command
The panic command causes the switch to dump state information immediately to flash memory and reboot.
To select panic, at the prompt, enter:
>> Switch# debug panic
A FLASH dump already exists.
Confirm replacing existing dump and reboot [y/n]:
Enter y to confirm the command:
Confirm dump and reboot [y/n]: y
A list of messages is displayed:
Starting system dump...done.
Reboot at 11:54:08 Wednesday March 14, 2007...
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Rebooted because of console PANIC command.
Booting complete
Unscheduled system dumps
If there is an unscheduled system dump to flash memory, the following message is displayed when you log on to the switch:
Note: A system dump exists in FLASH. The dump was saved at 13:43:22 Wednesday March 14, 2007.
Use show
extract the dump for analysis and clear
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