Cisco MDS 9000 Series

Intro

Multilayer Fiber Switches for SAN environment.

Useful links:

Landing Page https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/storage-networking/mds-9000-series-multilayer-switches/index.html

Troubleshooting http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/storage/san_switches/mds9000/sw/rel_3_x/troubleshooting/guide/trblgd.html

Notes:

Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Softwre Release 2.x is retired End-Of-Support Date 15 June 2013
Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Softwre Release 3.x is retired End-Of-Support Date 4 july 2015
Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Softwre Release 4.x is retired End-Of-Support Date 31 July 2017

Troubleshooting IOS Commands

EXEC mode ( Switch> enable )

Switch# show tech-support (or #sh tech)
Displays information for all features

Switch# show tech-support brief
Displays information only about the status of the device.

Switch# show version
Displays the configuration of the system hardware, the software version

Switch# show running-config
Displays the router configuration currently running.

Switch# show startup-config
Displays the router configuration stored in nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM).

Switch# show interfaces
Displays statistics for all interfaces configured.

Usefull IPMI Commands

IPMI :
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root fru print
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root sensor list
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root sunoem led get
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root sunoem sbled get all
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root sdr list all info
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root chassis status
ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root chassis restart_cause

Troubleshooting commands M-Series

M-Series
– showstatus
– showlogs error
– showlogs event
– showhardconf
– showhardconf -u
– fmdump
– fmdump –m
– showboards -a (or showdcl -a)
– version -c xscf -v