Displaying vif status

You can display the current status of a specified vif or all single-mode and multimode vifs on your storage system.

Step

Enter the following command: vif status [vif_name]
vif_name is the name of the vif whose status you want to display.

If you do not specify the vif name, the status of all vifs is displayed.

Example

The following example displays the status of vif1 on your storage system called toaster:

toaster> vif status vif1
default: transmit 'IP Load balancing', VIF Type 'multi_mode', fail
'log'
vif1: 1 link, transmit 'none', VIF Type 'single_mode' fail
'default'
VIF Status Up Addr_set
				up:
								e10: state up, since 05Oct2001 17:17:15 (05:23:05)
																				mediatype: auto-1000t-fd-up
																				flags: enabled
 																			input packets  20,	input bytes 1280 
																				output packets 2,  output bytes 84 
																				up indications 1, 	broken indications 0 
																				drops (if) 0, 					drops (link) 0 
																				indication: up at boot
																										consecutive 3, transitions 1
				down: 
								e5: 		state down,since 05Oct2001 17:17:03 (05:22:00)
																				mediatype: auto-unknown-cfg_down 
																				flags: disabled 
																				input packets 0, input bytes 0 
																				output packets 0, output bytes 0 
																				up indications 0, broken indications 0 
																				drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 
																				indication: down at boot
																											consecutive 4, transitions 0

After You Finish

You might want to view the vif status table for further information about each field.