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Troubleshooting🔗

Topology🔗

Verity displays a live map of the devices in the network and their connections.

Topology Detection and Behavior🔗

  1. Autodiscovery
  2. Connection moves
  3. Remove connections

Reports🔗

Verity provides a comprehensive list of reports to identify current conditions in the network

Report Details🔗

  1. Device
  2. Ports
  3. LAGs

MAC Address Workbench🔗

Verity provides the ability to display MAC addresses across the entire system .

The Mac Address Workbench lets you search device by mac address. Clicking the Go button without specifying a mac address displays all devices .

From within a list of devices, clicking opens a new tab to search on the corresponding mac address .

Ping and Trace Route🔗

Verity provides tools to troubleshoot Layer 3 issues for the underlay and Tenant connections for services configure for Layer 3. The Ping and Trace Route feature is a diagnostic tool that sends a ‘ping’ to and from a specified address and details the message path.

Beware of Misconfigurations

This feature is only applicable to systems using GNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface ). Before you use this feature, ensure the chosen device has its Device Controller/Managed Device Comm Type set to GNMI.

Controls🔗

The Ping and Trace Route dialog box is opened by clicking Open Ping/Traceroute Dialog button .

To use this feature you configure the following parameters and click the Start button .

Source🔗

  • Device: This is the source device of the ping.
  • VRF: This is where you select the VRF. The VRFs of Tenants, the Underlay (selected device), and Management (Device Controller) are all options.
  • IP: The targeted IP address to send the ping command from. The IP address changes depending on the VRF setting.

Destination🔗

  • IP: The targeted IP address to receive the ping command.

Ping🔗

  • Count: The number of ping events sent before the process is complete.

Trace Route🔗

When this option is selected, the trace route is included in the Result field.

CMD Status🔗

This is a progress indicator. When the feature is ready, CMD Status says Ready; when active, CMD Status says In Progress; and when the process is complete, it says Done.

DHCP Snooping🔗

Verity provides the location of connected L3 addresses detected by DHCP snooping functions in SONiC. . To enable DHCP snooping navigate to Site Settings and check the box next to Enable DHCP Snooping .

Viewing DHCP Assigned IP's🔗

To view DHCP assigned IP addresses go to Reports/DHCP Assigned IPs .