Lexmark IBM 9077 manual Check Media Card Status Using grcard

2.Enter a ping command. Specify the appropriate media card by its chassis slot number; for example, to act on the SP Switch Router Adapter media card in slot 3, enter ping -c4 -P grid 3.

This is what you see when the media card responds:

# ping -c4 -P grid 3

GRID ECHO 3 (0:0x3:0): 64 data bytes, 3 packets

68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.619 ms

68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.498 ms

68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.640 ms

68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.640 ms

--- 3 GRID ECHO statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.498/0.580/0.640 ms

#

To act on the GRF control board, enter ping -P grid 66.

Refer to GRF Reference Guide 1.4, GA22-7367 for a description of the ping command.

3.14.2 Check Media Card Status Using grcard

The grcard command returns information about the status of all installed media cards. Output from logs and other system reporting functions refers to the SP Switch Router Adapter card as DEV1, DEV1_V1 or dev1.

Here is a sample of the slot, media, and state information returned from the grcard command:

# grcard -v
Slot	HW type	State
----	-------	-----
0	FDDI_V2	running
1	ATM_OC3_V2	running
2	ETHER_V1	running
3	DEV1_V1	running
#

The SP Switch Router Adapter card resides in slot 3 and its state is reported as running.

Refer to the command descriptions in the GRF Reference Guide 1.4, GA22- 7367 for a description of grcard and the meaning of the different media states.

Installation and Configuration 98