Maintenance Menu

Introduction

The Maintenance Menu is used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a technical support dump of the critical state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the Forwarding Database and the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and routing tables. This menu is available only from an administrator and operator login.

Menu information

Command: /maint
[Maintenance

Menu]

sys

- System Maintenance Menu

fdb

- Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu
debug- Debugging Menu

arp

- ARP Cache Manipulation Menu

route

- IP Route Manipulation Menu

igmp

- IGMP Multicast Group Menu
uudmp- Uuencode FLASH dump
ptdmp- Upload FLASH dump via FTP/TFTP
cldmp- Clear FLASH dump
panic- Dump state information to FLASH and reboot
tsdmp- Tech support dump
pttsdmp- Upload tech support dump via FTP/TFTP

 

 

Dump information contains internal switch state data that is written to flash memory on the switch after any one of the following occurs:

The switch administrator forces a switch panic. The panic option, found in the Maintenance Menu, causes the switch to dump state information to flash memory, and then causes the switch to reboot.

The switch administrator enters the switch reset key combination (Ctrl-Shift-6) on a device that is attached to the console port.

The switch detects a hardware or software problem that requires a reboot.The following table describes the Maintenance Menu options.

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Maintenance Menu options

 

 

Command

Usage

 

 

sys

Displays the System Maintenance Menu.

 

 

fdb

Displays the Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu.

 

 

debug

Displays the Debug Menu.

 

 

arp

Displays the ARP Cache Manipulation Menu.

 

 

route

Displays the IP Route Manipulation Menu.

 

 

igmp

Displays the IGMP Maintenance Menu.

 

 

uudmp

Displays dump information in uuencoded format.

 

 

ptdmp

Saves the system dump information via FTP/TFTP.

 

 

cldmp

Clears dump information from flash memory.

 

 

panic

Dumps MP information to flash and reboots.

 

 

tsdmp

Dumps all switch information, statistics, and configuration.

 

 

pttsdmp

Redirects the technical support dump (tsdmp) to an external FTP/TFTP server.

 

 

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