Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Message Guide

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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS System Message Guide Release 12.2(31)SGA
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Chapter 1 System Message Format
Error Message Traceback Reports
Message Text
Message text is a text string that describes the error condition. The text string may contain detailed
information about the event, including terminal port numbers, network addresses, or addresses that
correspond to locations in the system memory address space. Because variable fields change from
message to message, they are represented here by short strings that are enclosed in square brackets ([ ]).
A decimal number, for example, is represented as [dec]. Table 1-3 lists the variable fields in messages.
Sample System Error Messages
The following is an example of a system error message:
Error Message LINK-2-BADVCALL: Interface [ chars ], undefined entry point
Some error messages also indicate the card and slot reporting the error. These error messages are
structured as follows:
CARD-SEVERITY-MSG:SLOT FACILITY-SEVERITY-MNEMONIC:
Message-text
• CARD is a code that describes the type of card reporting the error.
• MSG is a mnemonic indicating that this is a message. It is always shown as MSG.
• SLOT indicates the slot number of the card reporting the error. It is shown as SLOT followed by a
number (for example, SLOT5).
Error Message Traceback Reports
Some messages describe internal errors and contain traceback information, which provides the stack
trace of the function calls that resulted in the message. This trace helps the engineers track down the
problem that is indicated in the message. You should include this information when you report a problem
to your technical support representative.
The traceback report includes the following sample information:
-Process= "Exec", level= 0, pid= 17
-Traceback= 1A82 1AB4 6378 A072 1054 1860
The numbers that are printed in the message indicate which lines of code caused the message to occur.
Table 1-3 Representation of Variable Fields in Messages
Representation Type of Information
[dec] Decimal
[chars] or [char] Character string
[hex] Hexadecimal integer
[num] Number

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E