NNCLI COTD (Nortel Cli Command of the Day)

[ngutri000]

Be nice to your PCMCIA card, umount before you eject it or it may not work for you at the time you need it most…

ERS-8610:6# pcmcia-stop
It is now safe to eject pcmcia card.
ERS-8610:6#

[nonenone45]

For rebooting an 8600, have you tried the BOOT command?

[Michael McNamara]

Avaya/Nortel (going to take time to start calling Nortel Avaya) has a Nortel Discovery Protocol (also known as Synoptic Topology Protocol). The command for the ERS 8600 was already in this thread;

ERS-8610:5#show sys topology

Here's the command for the Ethernet Switch 460/470 and the Ethernet Routing Switch 4500/5500/5600 series switches;

5520-48T-PWR#show autotopology nmm-table
 
Cheers!

[ngutri000]

The downturn of economy and Nortel bankrupt make refurbished ERS8600 a bargain.  Many small companies want to upgrade their network infrastructure by replacing their core/distribution with ERS8600. 

Your current network is Baystack and you have never used the ERS8600 before.  Your boss gave you an ERS8600 and told you to install it at core or distribution layer.  Salesman gave you a link to Nortel documents, but it is so complex that you need a document just to find the document. Your boss spent all the money in the switch, so he could not afford Michael McNamara  for consultant.  If you are in this situation, these NNCLIs are for you:

ERS-8610:5# config vlan 1 ip create 172.18.254.254/16
ERS-8610:5# config snmp-v3 community commname first new-commname public
ERS-8610:5# config snmp-v3 community commname second new-commname private
ERS-8610:5# save config
Save config to file /flash/config.cfg successful.
CPU5 [01/29/10 15:10:37] SNMP INFO Save config successful.
ERS-8610:5#

Now you can go back to your comfy desk, fire up the “sexy Nortel DM” and manage your ERS8600.

Good Luck!

[ngutri000]

Here are two that I use almost daily to locate devices in the network via the ARP and MAC/FDB tables.

show ip arp info [IP ADDRESS]
show vlan info fdb-entry mac [MAC ADDRESS (00:12:34:56:78:9a:bc)]

These are very useful CLIs. 
Do you know any cli for flush the arp and mac-address table for ERS8600 4.1.  Nortel document  include "action fluship", "flush arp", and "flush MacFDB"  None work in ERS8600 4.1

[Michael McNamara]

Do you know any cli for flush the arp and mac-address table for ERS8600 4.1.  Nortel document  include "action fluship", "flush arp", and "flush MacFDB"  None work in ERS8600 4.1

Here's the syntax for the command on a switch running 4.1.3.x software (I just choose VLAN 11 arbitrarily)

Code:

ERS-8600:6# config vlan 11 action ?
Not enough required parameters entered
vlan action
Required parameters:
<action choice>  = choose one action {none|flushMacFdb|flushArp|flushIp|flushDynMemb|triggerRipUpdate|all}
Command syntax:
action <action choice>

How would I flush the ARP table for VLAN 11;
ERS-8600:6# config vlan 11 action flushArp

How would I flush the MAC FDB table for VLAN 11;
ERS-8600:6# config vlan 11 action flushMacFdb

Hopefully that answers your question, but if not please let me know.

Cheers!

[ngutri000]

Thanks Michael, it works!
You are the live dictionary of NNCLI!  I could not find these commands in "Nortel Command Reference NNCLI 5.1"

[stauftm]

I've been troubleshooting an ongoing issue with Nortel on our 5530 switches. A command I've been using a lot to see if any SW Exceptions have been happening is..

show system last-exception unit all

It's been very helpful.

Todd

Moderator Edit: this command is only available in 6.x or later software

[ngutri000]

To shutdown POE for a ERS5520 switchport use:
5520(config)#int fastEthernet 1/13
5520(config-if)#poe poe-shutdown

To turn it back on use:
5520(config-if)#no poe (go figure!)

[kmanuel]

Hi ngutri000,

I think the full syntax to turn it back on is actually:

no poe-shutdown [port <portlist>]

Probably a typo on your part(?)

[ngutri000]

Hi Kmanuel,

Thanks for the correction.  But if you are in the interface mode, “no poe” works too (I was confusing everytime I use this cli.)   “No poe-shutdown” makes more sense. 

Peter.

[stu taylor]

>Working with spyReport<
The spyReport, accessed using privilege mode can be used to get information about the process
load of the device. It lists all current running processes of ERS 8600 with their corresponding total
and delta (since the last spyReport) CPU cycles (ticks)................

Following on from the post about spyreport; When exiting shell or priv mode you need to type logout. If you type exit you'll cause the ERS8600 to reboot.

[ngutri000]

ERS 8600 V 4.1.0

When you configure MLT-IST, even IST did not work, switch is so kind, it won’t complain.  So how do you know if your IST is configured correctly and working?

Code:

8600:5# sh mlt ist info
================================================================================
                         Mlt IST Info
================================================================================
MLT   IP                   VLAN     ENABLE   IST
ID    ADDRESS              ID       IST      STATUS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20    172.22.0.42          3999     true     up

[ngutri000]

In ERS-5500 V6; if you set cli password, you must enter default username “RW” or “RO”
You can change the the default username with “username <name> rw  <password>”

[paulypaul]

to add to your tip....

if you want to move one file off one SF to another SF.  127.0.0.5 is the IP of CPU-5, 127.0.0.6 is CPU-6.