Monitoring your Ethernet interface status details using a serial connection

If network trouble is encountered on your IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance, then you can view additional details about the activity and status of your Ethernet interfaces. This topic explains how to view these details using a serial connection with the appliance, but these details are also available using the user interface.

Before you begin

You must have physical access to the appliance and be able to log in as xcadmin to perform this task.

Procedure

  1. Establish a serial connection with the appliance using the xcadmin user.
    The serial connection must be between an ASCII terminal or a PC running terminal emulation software to the serial port on the appliance. If you are using a PC for the serial console, you need to use a PC-based serial communications program for Windows or Linux. To make this connection, use the provided DB-9 serial cable. The serial console settings are 9600.8.n.1.
    Note: If the terminal or PC is not equipped with a serial port, use a USB-to-serial converter cable.
  2. Display the Ethernet interface status. Use the following command to display the Ethernet interface status:
    netif status <interface>
    Where <interface> is the name of the Ethernet interface that you want to query. Example output follows:
    Console> netif status mgt0
    mgt0    generic MTU:1500 flags:UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
            inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.255.255.128
            inet6 addr: 2001:DB8:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 mask: ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
            ethernet MAC: 00:1a:64:88:a0:6c autoneg:on duplex:Full port:TP
                speed:100Mbps
            statistics collisions:0 multicast:13 rx_bytes:101069093
                rx_compressed:0 rx_crc_errors:0 rx_dropped:0 rx_errors:0
                rx_fifo_errors:0 rx_frame_errors:0 rx_length_errors:0
                rx_missed_errors:0 rx_over_errors:0 rx_packets:1515625
                tx_aborted_errors:0 tx_bytes:10045272 tx_carrier_errors:0
                tx_compressed:0 tx_dropped:0 tx_errors:0 tx_fifo_errors:0
                tx_heartbeat_errors:0 tx_packets:20104 tx_window_errors:0

Results

After completing these steps, you have review the available status details for the Ethernet interfaces on your appliance.