Diagnostics

Network Diagnostics

A common issue storage administrators face is the ability to verify connectivity between the storage system and the servers using the storage. Connectivity might be even harder to verify in a cloud environment, depending on the network topology. VPSA Network Diagnostics allows you to check connectivity over the selected network to any server:

1. Go to the System > Diagnostics.

2. Select the VPSA network Interface.

3. Select the Diagnostics type:

   • Reachability

     1. Enter the Target IP Address of the server in question.

     2. Select whether you want to do one or both of:

        • Ping the server, and set the Count of echo requests.

        • Run Traceroute, and set the number of TTL hops.

     3. Click Run.

     It takes about a minute until the results display in the output frame.

   • Packet capture (tcpdump)

     Click Run.

     Packet capture (tcpdump) runs as a background task. Runtime is limited to about 2 minutes and the size of the output file is limited to 200MB. After tcpdump completion you will be able to download the output file.