FW 08.01.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-330, November 2005)

Maintenance Analysis Procedures
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Maintenence Analysis Procedures
Is a failure indicated?
NO YES
↓ A FRU failure, power-on self-test (POST) failure, link incident,
interswitch link (ISL) problem, fenced E_Port, or segmented
E_Port is indicated. To obtain event codes that identify the
failure, go to step 10.
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A link incident may have occurred, but the LIN alerts option is not
enabled and the yellow triangle (attention indicator) does not appear.
Inspect the Link Incident Log:
a. For the product reporting the problem:
— EFCM Basic Edition - Select Link Incident from the Logs
menu at any view. The Link Incident Log displays.
— Element Manager - Select Link Incident Log from the Logs
menu at any view. The Link Incident Log displays.
b. If a link incident occurred, the port number is listed with one of
the following messages.
— Link interface incident - implicit incident.
— Link interface 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 the
current link state.
Did a listed message appear?
NO YES
↓ A Fibre Channel link incident is indicated. Go to MAP 0500:
Port Failure or Link Incident Analysis. Exit MAP.
Perform a data collection and contact the next level of support. Refer
to Collect Maintenance Data (EFCM Basic Edition) or Collect
Maintenance Data (Element Manager). Exit MAP.