Monitor the status and attributes of the network devices
on your system. Regular monitoring helps to ensure that you are up
to date on any changes.
Before you begin
You must be assigned one of the following permissions
to perform these steps:
- System level, Hardware administration role with permission to View all hardware resources (Read-only) to view all network
device instances
- Resource level administration role with Read access rights permission (ACL) to view a specific instance
- Resource level administration role with Write access rights permission (ACL) to view and modify a specific instance
- Resource level administration role with All access rights permission (ACL) to view, modify and delete a specific instance
About this task
You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.
Procedure
- Click .
- Select a network device to view. The following list
provides a description of each section in the pane:
- Events: Specifies the problem events
that occurred.
- Jobs: Specifies the jobs that occurred.
- Type: Specifies whether the switch is a Top of Rack Switch (Mellanox TOR switch SN2410), SAN switch, or
Internal Management Switch (Mellanox switch AS4610).
- Description: Specifies the make and
model of the network device.
- Power status: Specifies whether the
network device is powered on.
- Status: Specifies whether the network
device is running.
- Location - Specifies the physical location
in the system.
- Firmware Level - Specifies the firmware
level of the network device.
- Software Version - Specifies the software
level of the network device.
- Model - Specifies the model
number of the network device.
- Network Ports - Specifies the total
number of ports, how many ports are being used, the port state, the
port identifier, and information about port communication.
- Click View details in
the Events field to view the warnings and critical
events.
The Events pane includes a table that lists all
of the events that can be filtered by type, severity, category, and
time interval.
- Filter the events.
To filter by event text,
type the text in the Enter text field. To filter
by type, select All or a specific network device
in the menu. To filter by time interval, select Time Interval.
The Severity menu includes a list of severity
levels to choose from, or you can select All.
The Category menu lists the category for which
the event is a member, including All, Alert, Resolution, Call support,
and Customer serviceable.
- Comment on the event. Select the Comments icon
in the Actions column. Enter the comment and click OK.
You can also view all of the comments by clicking Expand
all.
- Click the Show details icon in
the Actions column to view a collective summary of the event.
- Export the events to your local system.
Click the Export icon, and choose to
export either a specified number of events or all filtered events.
The exported XML file contains related event data, time stamps, and
comments.
- Expand Customer Ports to
view the port status, speed, input, and output.
To re-enable
a port that is in the errdisabled state, click
the re-enable button. Click Confirm when
asked to validate your request.
- Expand Network Ports to
view the port status, speed, input, and output.
- Collect diagnostic information
about the network devices from the Switch Status section.
Depending on the type of information that you want to collect,
select a command from the list, enter any required parameters, and
click Run Command. If you want to save the
command output, copy and paste it into a text editor.
Mellanox TOR switch SN2410
commands
The commands for
Mellanox TOR switch SN2410 are described in the
following list:
net show clag verbose- Shows the status of the Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) that are configured to the network
device.
net show bridge spanning-tree- Shows the STP state within the system.
net show interface all- Shows the status of all the interfaces.
net show bridge vlan- Shows the status of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) that is configured to the network
device.
net show version- Shows the firmware version of the network device.
net show bridge macs- Shows a MAC address table on the network device.
net show system- Shows the general information about the network device.
net show counters- Shows interface statistics for the ports on the network device.
net clear counters; net commit- Clears the counters on the network device.
sudo ethtool {PORTS}- Shows network driver and hardware settings for the ports that you specify.
dmesg- Shows the system logs of the network device.
net show configuration- Shows the complete network configuration on the network device.
SAN64b 32Gb SAN Scalable Switch commands.
The commands for
SAN64b 32Gb SAN Scalable Switch are described in the following list:
firmwareshow- Shows the current version of the firmware that is installed on the network device.
licenseshow- Shows the license keys that are installed on the network device.
portcfgshow- Shows the port configuration settings.
switchshow- Shows the status of the port and network device.
switchstatusshow- Shows the overall health of the network device.
zoneshow- Shows the details of the zone configuration. By using zoning, you can partition your storage
area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices that can access each other. A device can
communicate only with other devices connected to the fabric within its specified zone.
Zones can
be configured dynamically. They can vary in size, depending on the number of fabric-connected
devices, and devices can belong to more than one zone. Because zone members can access only members
of the same zone, a device that is not included in a zone is not available to members of that
zone.
porterrshow- Shows a summary of errors for all of the ports.