Displaying OptiConnect link status (DSPOPCLNK)
To display the connection status of HSL or optical links, use the Display OptiConnect Link Status (DSPOPCLNK) command.
The Display OptiConnect Link Status display varies depending on your hardware configuration.
If your hardware configuration includes HSL OptiConnect, the Display OptiConnect Link Status display shows the connection status of each HSL OptiConnect.
If your hardware configuration includes HSL OptiConnect, you can still access information about optical links by pressing F6 (Display optical links) on the Display OptiConnect Link Status display.
On the Display OptiConnect Link Status display, you can select option 5 (Display loop details) to see the status of a specific high-speed link ring and information about the bus adapter and port on each side of a system connection. You can also select option 6 (Display connection details) to obtain information about the status of an HSL OptiConnect connection from the system that issued the DSPOPCLNK command to another system.
If your hardware configuration does not include HSL OptiConnect, the Display OptiConnect Link Status display shows information about remote optical links. Press F11 (Display local links) to obtain information about local optical links. Press F11 again for information about the bus owners.
The Display OptiConnect Link Status display provides the following information:
- The local system or resource and the associated local bus number
- Remote resource
- Remote bus number
- Bus owner, which is the system that owns the shared bus
- Link status
- Active: The cable is in use for logical path SOCxx.
- Down: The cable fails, or the optical hardware or the remote system is down.
- Ready: The cable is available for use.
- Unknown: The remote system cannot be contacted.
- Connection status
- Active: The connection is in normal status and currently in use.
- Active/degraded: This status is same as Active with redundancy reduced.
- Failed: The connection fails.
- Varied on: The connection is in normal status.
- Vary on pending: The remote system cannot be contacted.
- Varyon/degraded: The connection is in normal status with redundancy reduced.
You might receive a connection status message indicating that some troubleshooting is required. Monitor the following status for potential problems:
- If the link or connection status is Active, Ready, or Varied on, OptiConnect is operating correctly.
- If the link status is Down or the connection status is Varyon/degraded or Active/degraded, either a hub system is down or a cable or an OptiConnect card has failed. To solve the problem, follow these steps:
- Check that all systems are operational.
- If a hub system is down, wait for it to be turned on and try the command again.
- If all hub systems are operational, call your IBM® service representative.
This does not apply to customers with 500 or 510 systems in an OptiConnect cluster.
- If the link status is Unknown or the connection status is Vary on pending, check that the remote system is operational and the QSOC subsystem has been started.
- If the Display OptiConnect Link Status display is blank, the QSOC subsystem has not been started on the system that you have signed on.
To print the entire Display OptiConnect Link Status display, enter DSPOPCLNK OUTPUT(*PRINT).
Parent topic:
Getting information about OptiConnect activityRelated reference
Display OptiConnect Link Status (DSPOPCLNK) command