Data-Pattern - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Command Reference Manual

Chapter 1 Cisco Nexus 7000 Series IP SLAs Commands

data-pattern

To specify the data pattern in a Cisco NX-OS IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) operation to test for
data corruption, use the data pattern command. To remove the data pattern specification, use the no
form of this command.
Syntax Description
hex-pattern
Defaults
The default hex-pattern is ABCD.
Command Modes UDP echo configuration mode (config-ip-sla-udp)
Command History Release
6.1(1)
Usage Guidelines The data-pattern command allows you to specify an alphanumeric character string to verify that the
operation payload does not get corrupted in either direction (source-to-destination or
destination-to-source.).
This command does not require a license.
Examples
This example show how to specify 1234ABCD5678 as the data pattern in an IPv4 network:
switch(config)# ip sla 1
switch(config-ip-sla)# udp-echo 172.29.139.134 1
switch(config-ip-sla-udp)# data-pattern 1234ABCD5678
switch(config-ip-sla-udp)# ip sla schedule 1 life forever start-time now
switch(config)#
Related Commands Command
filter-for-history
ip sla monitor
lives-of-history-kept
samples-of-history-kept
OL-27555-03
data-pattern hex-pattern
no data-pattern hex-pattern
Hexadecimal string to use for monitoring the specified operation.
Modification
This command was introduced.
Description
Defines the type of information kept in the history table for the IP SLAs
operation.
Begins the configuration for an IP SLAs operation and enters IP SLA
monitor configuration mode.
Sets the number of lives maintained in the history table for the IP SLAs
operation.
Sets the number of entries kept in the history table per bucket for the IP
SLAs operation.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Command Reference
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