Useful Arista commands

In this post I would like to show you some useful commands available on the Arista switches that you can use in your daily work.

The first command that is very useful is the watch command, which repeats the given command at a specified interval and can additionally display the differences between individual performances.

For example, if we want to monitor CRC errors on a given interface, instead of repeating the show int x / x several times, we can use the watch command, which will run the above mentioned command automatically every 2s and display information as shown below.

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NSX Edge Packet Capture

Packet capture on the NSX Edge is relatively simple and can be helpful during troubleshooting process. In this blog I will go through required steps to run packet capture and export a file to external ftp server to view it in the Wireshark.

In my example I have few interfaces on the NSX Edge as shown below.

I am going to run packet capture on the DMZ interface which is vNic_1. You can check the interface status on the NSX Edge running following command show interface vNic_1

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