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Monitoring and Management Tools 3

This chapter describes tools used to monitor day-to-day operations of the SP Switch Router

Adapter card or to indicate the causes of problems which may develop.

These tools operate from the SP Switch Router, and apply to the SP Switch Router and the SP Switch Router Adapter card. The “Management Commands and Tools” and “Management Tasks” chapters in the GRF Configuration and Management manual provide more information related to monitoring and managing the router.

Other tools that apply to the SP Switch Router Adapter card, notably SNMP, operate from the SP control workstation. Information about procedures performed from the SP control workstation are found in the “Managing Extension Nodes” chapter in the PSSP Administration Guide.

Chapter 3 contains these topics:

SP Switch Router command overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

SP Switch Router UNIX tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Using the netstat command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Obtaining layer 2 and 3 statistics - grstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

SP Switch Router Adapter card maint commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15

Checking for hardware problems - grdiag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

SP Switch Router dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24

Data collection utility - grdinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25

SP Switch Router logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30

Burning in media card flash memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34

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