Fibre Channel (SAN) Technical Documents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION  

This perl script can log into multiple switches and collect Smart SFP/GBIC data from those switch(es) and then sorts the data from high to low for the following categories: Temperature, Voltage, Current, Recieve Power, and Transmit Power. The script outputs the rankings to STDOUT by switch and overall. 

REQUIREMENTS 

Operating System Any OS with Perl and Perl modules Net::Telnet and Getopt::Long 

Interface Command Line 

Fabric Operating System 2.x and higher 

Other None 

NOTES (INCLUDING LIMITATIONS) 

USAGE: sfp_data_collect.pl -i <ip address> OPTIONS 
--dump_log | -d <filename> Capture Net::Telnet dump_log to <filename>. 
--fabric | -f Script will run in fabric mode. 
--help | -h Print this message and exit. 
--ip_address | -i <ip address> Allows for input of multiple ip addresses. 
--password | -p <password> Use to log into the switches. 
--username |-u <username> Use to log into the switches. 
--verbose | -v <level> Levels 0 = off to 4 = debug. 

NOTE: This contribution was migrated by Brocade from the former Brocade Connect community on March 13, 2008, on behalf of the author.