Token Ring Alarms

Accessing the Alarm Limits Window

To access the Alarm Limits window from the Chassis View window:

1.Click to display the Network pull-down menu.

2.In the Network pull-down menu, click on the Network 1 entry, then drag right and down to select Alarm Limits.... The Alarm Limits window (Figure 4-1) will appear.

3.Set the alarm limits as instructed in Setting Ring-Level Alarm Limits, below.

Figure 4-1. The Alarm Limits Window

Ring-Level Alarm Limits for Network Events

The following thresholds, listed in the section of the window labeled Ring Errors, are based on the number of occurrences of the selected event on the ring within a user-defined time interval.

Ring Purges

The number of times (since the ring network was created

 

or the MicroMMAC-T was last reset) that the ring’s

 

active monitor can purge the ring (including purges at

 

the end of the active monitor selection process). Note that

 

the ring purge count is not reset when the active monitor

 

changes. The default value is 70.

AMP

The number of times that a duplicate active monitor can

 

be detected on a ring within the alarm time base before

 

an alarm is triggered.

 

The default value is 1.

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Ring-Level Alarm Limits

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Enterasys Networks MicroMMAC-T manual Accessing the Alarm Limits Window, Ring-Level Alarm Limits for Network Events