Monitoring your Ethernet interface status details with 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 with a serial connection with the appliance, but these details are also available in the user interface.

Before you begin

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

Procedure

  1. Establish a serial connection with the appliance as 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, use a PC-based serial communications program for Windows or Linux. Use either the supplied serial cable or PL-2303 USB-to-serial cable to make the connection to the appliance.
    Important: If you are using the PL-2303 USB-to-serial cable, download and install a driver for the cable before proceeding.
    The serial console settings are 9600.8.n.1.
  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 reviewed the available status details for the Ethernet interfaces on your appliance.