Trick to remember 6500 troubleshooting order of commands .

HP-ELAW stands for Hari Prasada ELAM with wireshark.

1. H stands for Health check of the 6500 switch.
2. P  stands for programming check.
3. If both are correct , then do the ELAM,
4. If ELAM does not give any clue, do the wireshark packet capture.

Full description
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1)
H for health checkups ---------- > RSP LIFE IN Q MIB 

R -- RP CPU status
S ---SP CPU  status

L -- logs on the switch
I ---Interface drops/Errors
F -- Fabric errors
E-- Earl or Forwarding  ASIC health


Q ----For QOS drops on switch.

M ---Memory issues on switch or TCAM limit
IB---- RP IBC and SP IBC drops.


2 ) P for switch programming  ------> SHAMMU IS RICH IN CA.

S---Spaning-tree status
H---HSRP status
A---ARP status
M--- Mac address learning
M--Mac move notification
U----Unicast flooding

RI -----RIB
C------ip cef programming
H- Hardware cef programming

C ---- Cef programming for ARP adjacency
H----- Hardware cef adjaceny programming.