HP GbE2 - Manual (Page 15)

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The optional HP Diagnostic Station (Figure 11) is available to configure and diagnose an interconnect
switch or a server blade that has been removed from the server blade enclosure. The Diagnostic
Station provides power to the interconnect switch and can be used to perform any of the following
tasks:
• Build the initial interconnect switch configuration.
• Download a switch configuration file.
• Test network adapter and interconnect switch port activity.
• Diagnose interconnect switch status.
• Test an interconnect switch after installing an option or upgrade.
Figure 11. Diagnostic Station
The GbE2 switch provides many additional serviceability and diagnostic features including:
• Port mirroring with the ability to mirror desired type of frames (egress, ingress, or both). A single-
source or multiple-source port may be mirrored to a destination port.
• Power on self test (POST) at boot for hardware verification.
• Monitoring screens via the user interfaces for port utilization, data packets received/transmitted,
error packets, packet size, trunk utilization, SNMP data, etc.
• Details of system information via the user interfaces such as port parameters and link status, switch
asset information, configuration values, log entries, etc.
• The ability to "ping" to identify connectivity and trace routes to determine station-to-station path
connectivity.
• Local system log (syslog) with ability to view and clear messages plus remote syslog with support for
a primary and secondary syslog servers.
• Settable non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) diagnostic flags and display of management
processor trace buffer and snap or post-mortem trace buffer.
• State information ”dump” for tuning and debugging switch performance available in unencoded
format.
• Panic command for immediate state dump to flash memory and automatically switch reboot and a
watchdog timer for automatic switch reboot in case of switch software “freeze."
• MAC addresses view, clear, and delete from the forwarding database for identifying problems with
MAC address learning and packet forwarding.
• ARP table view, clear, entry, and delete for identifying problems with ARP entries.