Information and troubleshooting tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

Tools are available to help you retrieve information about SMC and troubleshoot.

smc-tools

The smc-tools package provides commands that help you to manage connections that use the SMC protocol.
  • Use the smcd info and smcr info verify the setup and provides information on the capabilities of the hardware and Linux.
  • Use the smcd and smcr commands to investigate your SMC links, link groups, and devices.

Wireshark

To help with troubleshooting, you can use the open source tool Wireshark to analyze SMC handshake traffic. The traffic is visually presented in the tool. The network packets sent during the SMC handshake are presented in human readable format with explanatory titles.

You can also use tcpdump to capture handshake traffic.