Description

The following commands can be used to retrieve optics related diagnostic information from the EVO based switches –

  • show interfaces diagnostics optics et-x/y/z
  • From cli-pfe:
    • show picd optics cmd identifier – Gives detailed optics information including vendor/part number/firmware version etc.
    • show picd optics cmd info – Gives details on optics initialization state and EEPROM dump
    • show picd optics cmd alarm – Optics alarm details
    • show picd optics cmd error – For Error counters in I2C Access (read/write)

The above commands dumps the cached information.

  • For Live eeprom data, the eeprom needs to be scanned using and then read using above ‘show commands:
    • test picd optics cmd eeprom_rescan

 

Solution

The commands mentioned above can be used to gather diagnostics information related to optics.

Modification History

2025-01-31 : Article Created