topic Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network? in ONTAP Discussions

how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

FelixZhou — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:17:46 GMT

couldn't figure out a way to use "traceroute" to test intercluster network. we set up cluster peering and tested snapmirror. Now we want to make sure the snapmirror network routing correctly between two clusters. is there any other way to test it out?

thanks advance !

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

SpindleNinja — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:08:34 GMT

traceroute-vserver vserver -lif-vserver vserver snapmirror_lif -destination x.x.x.x ?

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

pedro_rocha — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:31:13 GMT

network traceroute -lif SOURCE_INTERCLUSTER_LIF -vserver CLUSTER_VSERVER -destination DESTINATION_INTERCLUSTER_LIF

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

FelixZhou — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:30:52 GMT

network traceroute -lif SOURCE_INTERCLUSTER_LIF -vserver CLUSTER_VSERVER -destination DESTINATION_INTERCLUSTER_LIF

I ran this command, but always receive "command failed: entry doesn't exist" tried different options for CLUSTER_VSERVer, gave ether node name or different vservers, no lucky.

Can someone try out and give me more details?

thanks

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

pedro_rocha — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:59:07 GMT

Which ONTAP version are you running?

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

FelixZhou — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:04:30 GMT

AFF300, 9.6P5.

thanks

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

SpindleNinja — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:43:34 GMT

I don't have a second cluster in my lab but, here's one traceroute to the other lif.

WOPR::> network traceroute -vserver WOPR -lif SnapmirrorN1 -destination 192.168.1.226
traceroute to 192.168.1.226 (192.168.1.226) from 192.168.1.225, 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.226 (192.168.1.226) 0.582 ms 0.138 ms 0.127 ms

Re: how to "traceroute" the intercluster network?

pedro_rocha — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:28:28 GMT

I believe you are using the wrong names for lif/vserver/etc...

try to use tab key to auto-complete and get ir right...