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  • 1.  connectivity is physically exist or not between devices.

    Posted Dec 04, 2017 07:15 AM

    Hi,

    How to check the connectivity between the discovered devices in one click console topology tab and check whether the connectivity is physically exist or not between devices.



  • 2.  Re: connectivity is physically exist or not between devices.

    Posted Dec 04, 2017 09:27 AM

    You have no physical way of testing if a connection exists or not. They only way to do this is to pull the cables out and wait to see if the 2 ends of the links both report down ports. From my experience, If spectrum says that a link is there, it usually is (90% ot the cases).



  • 3.  Re: connectivity is physically exist or not between devices.

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Dec 07, 2017 03:43 PM

    As Catalin notes there isn't a way to verify in Spectrum if the connection exists (well, not without walking through all the many various mibs in Mibtools).  You could cross reference the information in Spectrum against the actual device configuration.  But this is why Spectrum has reconfiguration set to true out of the box (SPECTRUM Device Reconfiguration/Rediscovery recommended best practices. (Legacy KB ID CNC TS30962 ) so that Spectrum works to keep the connectivity correct and up to date.

    Cheers

    Jay