Diagnostic Tests
Front Panel Diagnostics
All ports on the switch must be connected or else the switch shows an error
condition. When running the cross port test, you must set the operating mode
value to 0 or 1. Modes 2 and 3 do not send out the ELP used to discover
switches. If the ELP is not sent, the switch does not know the port is
connected to another port on the same switch and the test fails.
If an error is encountered during the test, the error is displayed on
either the front panel display or during the Telnet session.
Related error messages: DIAG-INIT, DIAG-PORTDIED,
DIAG-XMIT, DIAG-TIMEOUT, DIAG-ERRSTAT, DIAG-STATS,
DIAG-PORTWRONG, DIAG-DATA, DIAG-PORTABSENT
Spin Silk Test The spinSilk test verifies the intended functional operation of the
switch by sending frames from each port’s transmitter via the GBIC
and external cable, and back to another port’s receiver at the full
hardware speed of 1Gb/s. It exercises the entire path of the switch.
The switch must be offline.
Because the CPU is not comparing data on each frame as with the
other two frame tests, the
DIAG-DATA error is never reported during
spin silk. However, the other error messages defined for
crossPortTest and their corresponding probable causes and actions
are applicable to the spin silk test.
Pressing <Enter> while Spin Silk Test is selected displays a
reminder to take the switch offline, if it is not offline. If the message is
displayed, take the switch offline.
Pressing <Enter> starts the Spin Silk Test and displays:
If an error is encountered during the test, the error is displayed on
either the front panel display or via Telnet.
When running the Spin Silk Test, you must set the operating mode value to 0
or 1. Modes 2 and 3 do not send out the ELP used to discover switches. If the
ELP is not sent, the switch does not know the port is connected to another
port on the same switch and the test fails.
SpinSilk: Press any
button to terminate
