Use Trace to Diagnose Hardware Problems

Use trace to observe the status of a hardware module at a given time.

Procedure

  1. Enter Privileged EXEC mode:

    enable

  2. Begin the trace operation:

    line-card 1 trace level [<Module_ID>]{<0–4>}

  3. Search the trace for a specific string value:

    line-card 1 trace grep {WORD<0–1024>}

Example

Switch:1>enable

Begin the trace operation:

Switch:1#line-card 1 trace level 67 1

Search the trace for a specific string value:

Switch:1#line-card 1 trace grep 00-1A-4B-8A-FB-6B

Variable Definitions

The following table defines parameters for the line-card 1 command.

Variable

Value

<Module_ID> {<0–4>}

Starts the trace by specifying the module ID and level.

<Module_ID> specifies the module for the trace. Different hardware platforms support different IDs because of feature support differences. For feature support information, see Fabric Engine and VOSS Feature Support Matrix. To see the list of module IDs, use the show trace modid-list command or CLI command completion Help.

<0-4> specifies the trace level from 0–4, where 0 is disabled; 1 is very terse; 2 is terse; 3 is verbose, 4 is very verbose.

WORD<0–1024>

Performs a string search in the trace.