Use Software Record Dumps

About this task

Capture a dump of the software records from ingress traffic to help troubleshoot performance problems. Generally, a verbosity level of 1 suffices.

Procedure

  1. Enter Privileged EXEC mode:

    enable

  2. Dump software record information:

    dump ar <1–12> WORD<1-1536> <0-3>

Example

Switch:1> enable

Switch:1# dump ar 1 vlan 1

Variable Definitions

The following table defines parameters for the dump ar command.

Variable

Value

<1>

Specifies the slot number.

WORD<1-1536>

Specifies a record type in the AR table. Options include vlan, ip_subnet, mac_vlan, mac, arp, ip, ipmc, protocol, all.

<0-3>

Specifies the verbosity from 0–3. Higher numbers specify more verbosity.