Yes, that’s doable. Follow the steps:
- Add the spine into maintenance mode
apic1# acidiag fnvread
ID Pod ID Name Serial Number IP Address Role State LastUpdMsgId
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103 1 pod2-leaf103 FDO22182UKC 10.10.136.64/32 leaf active 0
104 1 pod2-leaf104 FDO22181BU5 10.10.136.66/32 leaf active 0
204 1 pod2-spine204 FOX2330PAWN 10.10.136.65/32 spine maintenance 0
- Login via console on the switch
pod2-spine204# cd /data/techsupport
pod2-spine204# ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 12:42 heapstats
pod2-spine204#
Broadcast message from root@pod2-spine204 (Mon Oct 16 11:56:17 2023):
Switch will be placed in Maintenance Mode
Broadcast message from root@pod2-spine204 (Mon Oct 16 11:56:58 2023):
Switch in Maintenance Mode (Debug). Collecting tech-support...
pod2-spine204# cd /data/techsupport
pod2-spine204# ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Oct 16 11:56 cli.out.2023-10-16T11-56
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 12:42 heapstats
pod2-spine204#
pod2-spine204# techsupport local
Running bash commands
Completed 1 of 37 commands
Completed 2 of 37 commands
Completed 3 of 37 commands
Completed 4 of 37 commands
Completed 5 of 37 commands
[1553033.603187] vsh (42023) Ran 4171 msecs in last 5000 msecs
[1553071.110445] gzip (57769) Ran 5141 msecs in last 5156 msecs
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Completed 36 of 37 commands
Completed 37 of 37 commands
Collecting local database files
role : spine
Starting database snapshot
Database dump complete, available at /data/techsupport/debug/db
Done collecting local database files
Starting data compression
Techsupport collected at /data/techsupport/local_pod2-spine204_2023-10-16T12-11.tgz . Please remove the file once done.
- Transfer the techsupport file from the ACI switch to the APIC using the following command or download using winscp
apic1# scp pod2-spine204:/data/techsupport/local_pod2-spine204_2023-10-16T12-11.tgz /data/techsupport
CISCO BCS ACI LAB POD2
Password:
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Warning : The switch is operating in the maintenance mode.
Run 'show system mode' for more details.
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local_pod2-spine204_2023-10-16T12-11.tgz 38% 279MB 25.4MB/s 00:17 ETA
apic1# ls -l | grep "Oct 16"
-r--r--r-- 1 admin admin 753120101 Oct 16 12:17 local_pod2-spine204_2023-10-16T12-11.tgz
apic1#
