Maintenance Commands
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Maintenance Commands
Introduction
The Maintenance commands are used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a technical
support dump of the critical state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the Forwarding
Database and the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and routing tables. These commands are available
only from an administrator login.
Dump information contains internal switch state data that is written to flash memory on the switch after
any one of the following occurs:
• The switch administrator forces a switch panic. The panic option causes the switch to dump state
information to flash memory, and then causes the switch to reboot.
• The switch administrator enters the switch reset key combination (Ctrl-Shift-6) on a device that is
attached to the console port.
• The switch detects a hardware or software problem that requires a reboot.
The following sections provide detailed information and commands.
System maintenance
The System Maintenance commands are reserved for use by HP technical support. The options are used to
perform system debugging.
The following table describes the System Maintenance commands.
Table 180 System Maintenance commands
Command Usage
debug debug-flags
Sets the flags that are used for debugging purposes by HP technical support.
Command mode: All except User EXEC
