FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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diagnose FortiSwitch-5003A CLI reference
diagnose
This section describes some of the available FortiSwitch-5003A diagnose commands.
You can use diagnose commands for debugging the operation of the FortiSwitch-5003A board and to
set parameters for displaying different levels of diagnostic information.
This section describes:
• Monitoring the status of trunk members
• spanning-tree instance fabric-channel
• spanning-tree mst-config fabric-channel
• switch fabric-channel mac-address filter
• switch fabric-channel mac-address list
Monitoring the status of trunk members
You can monitor the status changes of trunk members. To do this, enable debugging for trunk. The
console will then display port effective or port ineffective according to the status of the
trunk member.
Syntax
diagnose debug trunk enable
diagnose switch fabric-channel trunk
Example output
Switch Trunk Information, Fabric-Channel
Trunk Name: slot_8_12
Port Selection Algorithm: src-dst-ip
Port Serial Number Update Time
__________ ____________________ ____________________
slot-8 FG5A253E06500030 19:45:31 May-05-2011
slot-6 FG5A253E06500032 19:45:32 May-05-2011
set switch port effective, port(slot-8)
set switch port ineffective, port(slot-8)
set switch port effective, port(slot-8)
set switch port ineffective, port(slot-8)
set switch port effective, port(slot-8)
set switch port ineffective, port(slot-8)
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Caution: Diagnose commands are intended for advanced users only. Contact Fortinet technical
support before using these commands.