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Alteon OS Command Reference
Chapter 9: The Maintenance Menu
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/maint/panic
Panic Command
The
panic
command causes the switch to immediately dump state information to flash mem-
ory and automatically reboot.
To select
panic
, at the
Maintenance#
prompt, enter:
Enter
y
to confirm the command:
The following messages are displayed:
Unscheduled System Dumps
If there is an unscheduled system dump to flash memory, the following message is displayed
when you log on to the switch:
>> Maintenance# panic
A FLASH dump already exists.
Confirm replacing existing dump and reboot [y/n]:
Confirm dump and reboot [y/n]: y
Starting system dump...done.
Rebooted because of PANIC command.
Booting complete 0:01:01 Tue Mar 14, 2007:
Version 1.3.0 from FLASH image1, active config block.
No POST errors (0xff).
Production Mode.
Note: A system dump exists in FLASH. The dump was saved
at 13:43:22 Tuesday March 14, 2007. Use /maint/uudmp to
extract the dump for analysis and /maint/cldmp to
clear the FLASH region. The region must be cleared
before another dump can be saved.