Operational Commands
Use the Operational Commands screen to run, on Viptela devices, a group of two or more operational commands as a single command.
Screen Elements
- Title bar.
- Device Groups drop-down.
- Filter criteria—Sort options drop-down and Search box, for a Contains or Match string.
- Table of devices in the overlay network—Select a device to view the operational commands under the More Actions icon. To re-arrange the columns, drag the column title to the desired position.
Admin Tech Command
Use the Admin Tech command to collect system status information for a device in a tar file, to aid in troubleshooting and diagnostics.
- From the device table, select the device.
- Click the More Actions icon to the right of the row.
- From the drop-down list of commands, select Admin Tech. The Generate admin-tech File dialog box opens.
- If desired, limit the contents of the Admin Tech tar file:
- The Include Logs checkbox is selected by default. Deselect this checkbox to omit any log files from the compressed tar file. Log files are stored in the /var/log/directory on the local device.
- Select the Include Cores checkbox to include any core files. Core files are stored in the /var/crash directory on the local device.
- Select the Include Tech checkbox to include any files related to device processes (daemons) and operations. These files are stored in the /var/tech directory on the local device.
- Click Generate. A tar file is created which contains the contents of various files on the local device. This file has a name similar to 20150709-032523-admin-tech.tar.gz, where the numeric fields are the date and time.
- Send the admin-tech.tar.gz file to your Viptela customer support contact.
Interface Reset Command
Use the Interface Reset command to shutdown and then restart an interface on a device in a single operation, without having to modify the device's configuration.
- From the device table, select the device.
- Click the More Actions icon to the right of the row.
- From the drop down list of commands, select Interface Reset.
- In the Interface Reset dialog box, select the desired interface.
- Click Reset.