Maintenance Menu 166
Maintenance Menu
Introduction
The Maintenance Menu is used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a technical support dump of the
critical state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the Forwarding Database and the Address Resolution
Protocol (ARP) and routing tables. This menu is available only from an administrator and operator login.
Menu information
Command: /maint
[Maintenance Menu]
sys - System Maintenance Menu
fdb - Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu
debug - Debugging Menu
arp - ARP Cache Manipulation Menu
route - IP Route Manipulation Menu
igmp - IGMP Multicast Group Menu
uudmp - Uuencode FLASH dump
ptdmp - Upload FLASH dump via FTP/TFTP
cldmp - Clear FLASH dump
panic - Dump state information to FLASH and reboot
tsdmp - Tech support dump
pttsdmp - Upload tech support dump via FTP/TFTP
Dump information contains internal switch state data that is written to flash memory on the switch after any one of the
following occurs:
• The switch administrator forces a switch panic. The panic option, found in the Maintenance Menu, causes the
switch to dump state information to flash memory, and then causes the switch to reboot.
• The switch administrator enters the switch reset key combination (Ctrl-Shift-6) on a device that is attached
to the console port.
• The switch detects a hardware or software problem that requires a reboot.
The following table describes the Maintenance Menu options.
Table 185 Maintenance Menu options
Command Usage
sys Displays the System Maintenance Menu.
fdb Displays the Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu.
debug Displays the Debug Menu.
arp Displays the ARP Cache Manipulation Menu.
route Displays the IP Route Manipulation Menu.
igmp Displays the IGMP Maintenance Menu.
uudmp Displays dump information in uuencoded format.
ptdmp Saves the system dump information via FTP/TFTP.
cldmp Clears dump information from flash memory.
panic Dumps MP information to flash and reboots.
tsdmp Dumps all switch information, statistics, and configuration.
pttsdmp Redirects the technical support dump (tsdmp) to an external FTP/TFTP server.
