Brocade Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000853-01, June 2008)
98 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
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Port information
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Displaying a summary of port errors for a switch
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the portErrShow command. See the Fabric OS Command Reference for additional
portErrShow command information.
brcd300:admin> porterrshow
frames enc crc too too bad enc disc link loss loss frjt fbsy
tx rx in err shrt long eof out c3 fail sync sig
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0: 5.4k 1.9k 0 0 0 0 0 841k 0 0 2 4 0 0
1: 4.5k 505 0 0 0 0 0 164k 0 0 2 4 0 0
2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
3: 168k 2.4k 0 0 0 0 0 637k 0 0 2 4 0 0
4: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
5: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
6: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
7: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
9: 126k 4.0k 0 0 0 0 0 585k 0 0 2 4 0 0
10: 122 126 0 0 0 0 0 1.1m 0 0 6 12 0 0
11: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
12: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
13: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
14: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
15: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
17: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
18: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
19: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
21: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
22: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
23: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
The portErrShow command output provides one output line per port. See Table 17 for a description
of the error types.
TABLE 17 Error summary description
Error type Description
frames tx Frames transmitted
frames rx Frames received
enc in Encoding errors inside frames
crc err Frames with CRC errors
too shrt Frames shorter than minimum
too long Frames longer than maximum
bad eof Frames with bad end-of-frame delimiters
enc out Encoding error outside of frames
disc c3 Class 3 frames discarded
link fail Link failures (LF1 or LF2 states)
loss sync Loss of synchronization