Brocade ADX Crash

Brocade ADX can crash due to failure of Management Processor (MP) or Barrel Processor (BP). In order to narrow down the issue, check the output for the following commands:Brocade ADX Crash

Brocade ADX can crash due to failure of Management Processor (MP) or Barrel Processor (BP). In order to narrow down the issue, check the output for the following commands:

#show version

This will show you the uptime of the MP

#sh ver | i uptime

The system uptime is 5 days 12 hours 44 minutes 17 seconds

Log into “rcon virtual” and execute the following command:

#asm show version

This will show you the uptime of the BP

#asm sh ver

Copyright (c) 1996-2009 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.Boot  SW: Version 12.04.00 Nov 21 2011 15:09:57 PST label: dob12400Monitor  SW: Version 12.04.00 Nov 21 2011 15:09:57 PST label: dob12400System  SW: Version 12.04.00 Jul  9 2013 16:28:27 PDT label: ASB12400h The system has been up for 1 hours 8 minutes 35 seconds

As seen in the following outputs taken from an ADX that crashed, the uptime for the MP is more than the uptime for the BP. This would indicate that the BP reloaded while the MP did not reload.

Once this has been narrowed down, capture the dump file by running the following command:

#dm save mp (For MP)

#dm save bp 1 1 (For BP 1)