Troubleshooting
- Where Do I Start?
- Error Messages
- System Logs
- System Diagnostics
- Capturing Packets
- FTP Error Codes
Where Do I Start?
We recommend that you start troubleshooting as follows:
| Web UI or CLI? | Problem Involves? | Strategy |
| Web UI | stations | View station log history by clicking Monitor > Diagnostics > Station |
| Web UI | radios | View radio log history by clicking Monitor > Diagnostics > Radio |
Where Do I Start?
| Web UI or CLI? | Problem Involves? | Strategy |
| CLI | stations | View station-log history with one of these commands:
station-log show-mac=<affected MAC address> station-log show (if the MAC is not known) If the problem is reproducible/occurring continually, log your terminal session, enter the station-log interface and add the affected MAC address using the command station add <MAC>. If you DON’T know the MAC address, enter event all all to capture all events for all MAC addresses. |
| CLI | controller | View controller-log history with the command diagnostics-controller
If the problem is reproducible/occurring continually, log your terminal session, enter the station-log interface with the command station-log, and add the affected MAC address using the command station add <MAC>. If you DON’T know the MAC address, type event all all to capture all events for all MAC addresses. |
Error Messages
The following are common error messages that may occur either at the controller or at an AP.
Error Messages
| Message Text | Explanation |
| [07/20 13:02:11.122]
1m[35m**Warning**[0m WMAC: Wif(0):SetTsf() TSF[00000000:000006e3] -> [00000033:77491cfd]thr[0000 0000:03938700] |
May be observed on the AP command line or in trace log output from an AP after a full diagnostics gather.
The SetTsf() messages indicate that the AP has adjusted its TSF (TSF stands for Time Synchronization Function and is really the AP’s clock) forward by more than a certain threshold (the threshold is 5 seconds). The specific case above indicates that the AP has just booted up and adjusted its TSF value to its neighboring AP’s TSF value. You can tell that the AP just booted because its current TSF is a low value (i.e. 6e3 microseconds). During initialization, the AP will synchronize its TSF to the TSF of its neighbors whenever the neighbors support a BSSID in common with this AP. That is a requirement to support Virtual Cell. |
| [07/31 14:01:33.506]
*****ERROR***** QOS: FlowMgr failed while processing flow request, reason= 5, srcMac[00:23:33:41:ed:27], dstMac[00:00:00:00:00:00]. |
May be observed in the controller’s CLI interface.
This error occurs when there is an attempt to either set up or remove an AP flow on a station that has started a phone call. “reason=5” means the cited station is not assigned to the AP where the attempt to set up/ remove the flow was made. The presumed impact is that the stations (presumably phones) get lower than normal call quality since there are no QoS flows established on behalf of the MAC address. |
| Received non-local pkt on AP! | This message may be observed on the serial console of a controller or in the dmesg.txt output included with a controller’s diagnostics. This message indicates that a Ethernet type 0x4001 or UDP port 5000 packet (L2 and L3 COMM respectively) was received by the controller’s Ethernet, but was not actually destined for the controller’s MAC or IP address. |
“station-log issues” command works but will not accept any of the arguments. 4200 controller running 8.4.1 software.