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Overview / Scenario:

This article provides information about  SonicWall SM9800's reference to its multi-blade system in TSR
 

The SM9800 is a new member of the SonicWall Super Massive 9000 series.

Starting with the SM9800, it incorporates a dual SonicWall engine (blade) architecture. In contrast the SM9200, SM9400, and SM9600 uses a single SonicWall engine architecture. As a result of this new design the SM9800 provides substantial performance gains.

The SM9800 is a dual blade integrated architecture design and not a removal blade system. Due to the nature of the SM9800 dual blade architecture, there are some unique attributes that show up in the TSR relating the SM9800 blade architecture.

The SM9800 TSR will include information related to its dual blade architecture.

What is reported in SM9800 TSR related to its mult-blade system?
 

• Blade_0         - ChassisOS information
• Blade_1         - Blade 1 information
• Blade_2         - Blade 2 information

The SM9800 has Chassis operating system called ChassisOS. In the TSR the ChassisOS referred to as blade_0.

The TSR starts with information about ChassisOS (blade_0)

The ChassisOS information is shown between (#BLADE_0_START) and (#BLADE_0_END)

#BLADE_0_START
.......
(ChassisOS info .......)
.......

#BLADE_0_END

The following example is an excerpt of the blade_0 listing:
 

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#BLADE_0_START

Linux 2.6.32.27-Cavium-Octeon

SonicWall ChassisOS Version is 6.0.2.2

SonicWall Apps Version is 6.0.2.5

LMP Linux Version: ? 

Interface Section

br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C0:EA:E4:AC:C3:FE

inet addr:10.204.12.17 Bcast:10.204.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::de12/10 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:1093423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:66484724 (63.4 Mb) TX bytes:101491 (99.1 Kb)

br1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C0:EA:E4:AC:C3:FC

inet addr:169.254.2.100 Bcast:169.254.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::c2ea:e4ff:feac:c3fc/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1708 Metric:1

RX packets:5494491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

.........
.........
.........

#BLADE_0_END

Blade 1 and Blade 2 information are separated into their own sections below the Blade 0 section.
 

• Blade0 refers to ChassisOS on the SM9800
• Blade1 refers to the primary blade of the SM9800 dual-blade system
• Blade2 refers to the secondary blade of the SM9800 dual-blade system

Note: On non-blade systems, the TSR has no references to Blade 0, Blade 1 or Blade 2.

• Information for Blade_1 is bracket by #BLADE_1_START and #BLADE_1_END
• Information for Blade_2 is bracket by #BLADE_2_START and #BLADE_2_END

The TSR refers to the:

ChassisOS of the SM9800 as blade_0.      The ChassisOS information is shown between (#BLADE_0_START) and (#BLADE_0_END).
Primary blade of the SM9800 as blade_1.  The Blade_1 information is shown between (#BLADE_1_START) and (#BLADE_1_END).
Second blade of the SM9800 is blade_2.   The Blade_2 information is shown between (#BLADE_2_START) and (#BLADE_2_END).

#BLADE_0_START
.......
.......
.......

#BLADE_0_END
#BLADE_1_START

..........
..........
..........

#BLADE_1_END
#BLADE_2_START

..........
..........
..........

#BLADE_2_END



The following is an excerpt of  TSR from a SM9800,

 

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#BLADE_0_START
Linux 2.6.32.27-Cavium-Octeon

............
............
............

#BLADE_0_END

#BLADE_1_START

#version 1.0

#System : Status_START
#Blade_1_STATUS_START

--System Information--
Model : SuperMassive 9800
Current Product Code : 10900
Base Product Code : 10900

.........
.........
.........

#Blade_1_STATUS_END

#System : Status_END

.........
.........
.........

#BLADE_1_END

#BLADE_2_START

#version 1.0

#System : Status_START
#Blade_2_STATUS_START

--System Information--
Model : SuperMassive 9800
Current Product Code : 10900
Base Product Code : 10900
..........
..........
..........

#Blade_2_STATUS_END

#System : Status_END

.........
.........
.........

#BLADE_2_END

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Note: Each system section is bracketed by a Blade_1 or Blade_2. For example, such as (#Blade_1_STATUS_START and #Blade_1_STATUS_END)