This is the first post regarding the On-site training to make MNL SAs up to speed to support the company’s production servers.
This week’s topic… building the server through Jumpstarting (yeah, solaris sparc servers).
Watch-Net and Watch-Net-All Diagnostics
The watch-net and watch-net-all diagnostics monitor Ethernet packets on the Ethernet interfaces connected to the system. Good packets received by the system are indicated by a period (.). Errors such as the framing error and the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error are indicated with an “X” and an associated error description. The watch-net diagnostic is initialized by typing the watch-net command at the ok prompt and the watch-net-all diagnostic is initialized by typing the watch-net-all command at the ok prompt. The following code example identifies the watch-net diagnostic output message. Example 4-3 identifies the watch-net-all diagnostic output message.
ok watch-net Hme register test --- succeeded. Internal loopback test -- succeeded. Transceiver check -- Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up. passed Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up. Looking for Ethernet Packets. '.' is a Good Packet. 'X' is a Bad Packet. Type any key to stop. .................................................. ................................................................ ................................................................ ........................................................ ok watch-net-all /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1 Hme register test --- succeeded. Internal loopback test -- succeeded. Transceiver check -- Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up. passed Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up. Looking for Ethernet Packets. '.' is a Good Packet. 'X' is a Bad Packet. Type any key to stop. ........ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ .................................... ok ok