Managing Hardware with CLI Commands
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Hardware Status
Table 5-16 lists the CLI commands that display status information, such as power, temperature, ports, and
alarms for the fan tray and individual cards and ports. Required characters and keywords are shown in bold;
arguments for which you must supply a value are shown in italics. You can enter show commands in any
mode.
Hardware Configuration, Control, and Troubleshooting
The tables in this section list the hardware configuration, control, and troubleshooting commands for the
system, ports, and channels; these commands are described in detail in the Ports, Circuits, and Tunnels
Configuration Guide or the Ports, Circuits, and Tunnels Operations Guide for the SmartEdge OS,
including the mode in which they are entered. These tables appear in the following sections:
• Hardware Configuration and Control
• Hardware Troubleshooting
Table 5-16 CLI Commands for Hardware Status
Task or Information Needed CLI Command Comments
Status information—fan tray, power, temperature, ports, alarms, bit error rate tests (BERTs)
Fan tray, power, temperature for all
installed units
show hardware
show hardware detail
Status of internal and external CF cards show disk
Status of standby controller show redundancy
Status for all ports show port
show port detail
show port counters
show port perf-monitor
For descriptions of the output for the show port
command with and without the detail keyword, see
Table 5-31 on page 5-26 and Table 5-29 on page 5-25,
respectively; for descriptions of the output for the show
port counters and show port perf-monitor commands,
see the Ports, Circuits, and Tunnels Operations Guide
for the SmartEdge OS.
Status for a specific port, including
alarms
show port detail slot/port
Status of all alarms at system, card, port,
channel level
Status of alarms for specific card, port,
or channel
show system alarm all
show system alarm
Note The mode in which you enter a command is as follows:
1. Enter show commands in any mode.
2. Enter clear and reload commands in exec mode.
3. Enter the card command and the port command for any type of port or channel in global
configuration mode.
4. Enter the loopback and shutdown commands in the configuration mode for the port or
channel.
For detailed information about modes, see the Ports, Circuits, and Tunnels Configuration
Guide for the SmartEdge OS.