Alteon OS Command Reference

/maint/panic

Panic Command

The panic command causes the switch to immediately dump state information to flash mem- ory and automatically reboot.

To select panic, at the Maintenance# prompt, enter:

>> Maintenance# 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

The following messages are displayed:

Starting system dump...done.

Rebooted because of PANIC command.

Booting complete 0:01:01 Tue Mar 14, 2007:

Version 1.3.0 from FLASH image1, active config block.

No POST errors (0xff).

Production Mode.

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

Tuesday

March 14, 2007. Use

/maint/uudmp to

extract the

dump for

analysis and /maint/cldmp to

clear the FLASH region. The region must

be cleared

before another dump

can

be saved.

 

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