Dell Brocade G620 Brocade 8.0.1 Fabric OS Command Reference - Page 272
Notes, Operands, Logical Fabrics, fcPing, allpaths, number, length, interval
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fcPing Logical Fabrics: When executed in a Logical Fabric from a switch to a destination device connected through the base fabric, SuperPing exercises all paths in the base fabric along with the ISLs in the logical fabric. The path output indicates the LISLs and the base switch. Refer to the Examples section for an illustration. Notes The ELS Echo may not be supported on all devices. In such cases, the response could be either an ELS reject or a request timeout. By default, fcPing sends five ELS Echo requests to each port. When a device does not respond to the ELS Echo request, further debugging may be needed to determine, whether the device does not support ELS Echo, or whether the request is rejected for some other reason. Do not assume that the device is not connected. If a fabric reconfiguration occurs while SuperPing is in progress, the command reports an error message. Exit the command and rerun the test after the fabric becomes stable again. SuperPing and the fcPing command are not supported for the simulated devices that exist on SIM ports. Use the flow command to enable the SIM ports. The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric restrictions that may be in place. Refer to "Using Fabric OS Commands" and "Command Availability" for details. Operands This command has the following operands: destination source Specifies the destination as follows. • When using fcPing between a source and a destination, specify the destination as port WWN or a node WWN. • When using fcPing to ping a single device, specify the destination as a PID, a switch WWN, a domain ID, or a switch domain controller ID. • When using fcPing with the --allpaths option, specify the destination as a PID, a switch WWN, or a domain ID. Specifies the source port ID, port WWN, or node WWN. This operand is optional; it is not valid with the SuperPing command (--allpaths). The following operands are valid only when fcPing is executed without the --allpaths option (legacy mode): --number frames Specifies the number of ELS Echo requests to send. The default value is 5. --length size Specifies the frame size of the requests in bytes. The default value is 0. Without data, the Fibre Channel Echo request frame size is 12 bytes. The total byte count includes four bytes from the Echo request header and eight bytes from the timestamp. The maximum allowed value is 2,036 bytes. The length must be word-aligned. --interval wait Specifies the interval, in seconds, between successive ELS Echo requests. The default value is 0 seconds. 248 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference 53-1004112-02
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