Helpful Brocade SAN cli commands

 When digging down problems within a brocade SAN these are some commands that come in handy

#showing errors only for ports with traffic
porterrshow | grep -v ':    0       0'
#showing only errors for ports with errors
porterrshow | grep -v '0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0'
#showing all SFPs with its powerreadings, you should check the ones that RX Power (incoming light) is below -4dBm and 
#TX Power is above -0.3 dBm that usually indicates dirty cables
sfpshow -all | grep -E 'Power|Port '

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