Cisco MDS 9000 Series Command Reference

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
OL-8413-07, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Chapter 8 F Commands
fcping
5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 165/270/730 usec
The following example shows the setting of the number of frames to be sent using the count option. The
range is from 0 through 2147483647. A value of 0 will ping forever.
switch# fcping fcid 0xd70000 vsan 1 count 10
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 730 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 165 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 262 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 219 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 228 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 230 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 230 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 225 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 229 usec
28 bytes from 0xd70000 time = 183 usec
10 frames sent, 10 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 165/270/730 usec
The following example shows the setting of the timeout value. The default period to wait is 5 seconds.
The range is from 1 through 10 seconds.
switch# fcping fcid 0xd500b4 vsan 1 timeout 10
28 bytes from 0xd500b4 time = 1345 usec
28 bytes from 0xd500b4 time = 417 usec
28 bytes from 0xd500b4 time = 340 usec
28 bytes from 0xd500b4 time = 451 usec
28 bytes from 0xd500b4 time = 356 usec
5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 340/581/1345 usec
This command shows the No response from the N port message even when the N port or NL port is
active. This is due to resource exhaustion at the N port or NL port. Retry the command a few seconds
later.
switch# fcping fcid 0x010203 vsan 1
No response from the N port.
switch# fcping pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd vsan 1
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 1454 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 471 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 372 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 364 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 1261 usec
5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 364/784/1454 usec
The following example displays fcping operation for the device alias of the specified destination.
switch# fcping device-alias x vsan 1
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 358 usec
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 226 usec
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 372 usec

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Specifications

General

Category	Switch
Operating System	Cisco NX-OS
Ports	Varies by model
Protocols	Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), iSCSI
Redundancy	Redundant supervisors, power supplies, and fans
Management	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), CLI, SNMP
Virtualization Support	VSANs (Virtual SANs)
Security Features	Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
Hot Swappable Components	power supplies, fans
Power Supply Options	AC and DC options available