Nortel Networks BMD00007 manual Unscheduled System Dumps, Maint/panic, Panic Command

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 1.1.0 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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