FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-320, April 2005)

Diagnostics
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• Date/Time - Date and time the link incident occurred.
• Port - Port number (0 through 23) that reported the link incident.
• Link Incident - Brief description of the link incident. Problem
descriptions include:
— Implicit incident.
— Bit-error threshold exceeded.
— Link failure - loss of signal or loss of synchronization.
— Link failure - not-operational primitive sequence (NOS)
received.
— Link failure - primitive sequence timeout.
— Link failure - invalid primitive sequence received for current
link state.
Refer to MAP 0600: Port Failure and Link Incident Analysis on page 3-74
for corrective actions in response to these link incident messages.
Threshold Alert Log To open the Threshold Alert Log, select the Threshold Alert Log option
from the Logs menu at the Hardware View, Port List View, Node List
View, Performance View, or FRU List View. The log displays
(Figure 4-16).
Figure 4-16 Threshold Alert Log
The log displays a history of threshold alert notifications. The log
consists of the following columns: