
Command Reference A-37
NAME
fctest - test Fibre Channel environment
SYNOPSIS
fctest
[
adapter
]
DESCRIPTION
Use the
fctest
command to test Fibre Channel adapters and disks on an appli-
ance. This command provides a report of the integrity of your Fibre Channel
environment. It is only available in maintenance mode, and takes about 5 minutes
to complete.
If the
adapter
argument is missing, all Fibre Channel adapters and disks in the
system are tested, otherwise only the specified adapter, and disks attached to it,
are tested.
When finished,
fctest
prints out a report of the following values for each Fibre
Channel adapter tested:
1. Number of times loss of synchronization was detected in that adapters Fibre
Channel loop.
2. Number of CRC errors found in Fibre Channel packets.
3. The total number of inbound and outbound frames seen by the adapter.
4. A confidence factor on a scale from 0 to 1 that indicates the health of your
Fibre Channel system as computed by the test. A value of 1 indicates that no
significant errors were found. Any value less than 1 indicates there are prob-
lems in the Fibre Channel loop that are likely to interfere with the normal
operation of your appliance. There is a troubleshooting checklist for Fibre
Channel problems in your
System Administrator and Command Reference
Guide
that may help identify and correct the problem.
If the confidence factor is reported as less than 1, go through the troubleshooting
checklist for Fibre Channel loop problems in the System Administrator and
Command Reference Guide and re-run the
fctest
command after making any
suggested modifications to your Fibre Channel setup.
The actual arithmetic that is used to compute the confidence factor is as follows:
The number of Fibre Channel frame errors is obtained by adding the number of
CRC and Synchronization errors, with each sync error weighted ten times as
much as a CRC error. The number of errors is then divided by the total number of
Fibre Channel frames (i outbound). The quotient is subtracted from 1 to
get the final answer.
C = 1 - (Crc + 10Sync)/F,
where C = the confidence factor, representing the integrity of your FC
system.
fctest
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