Foundry Networks FGS624P, FGS648P-POE manual Digital Optical Monitoring, Status Value Description

Maintaining the FastIron GS Hardware

Digital Optical Monitoring

You can configure your Foundry device to monitor XFPs in the system either globally or by specified port. If monitoring is enabled, console messages, syslog messages, and SNMP traps are sent when XFP operating conditions warrant and a port is enabled.

To configure all XFP ports for optical monitoring, use the following command:

FastIron Router(config)#optical-monitor

To configure a specific XFP port for optical monitoring, use the following command:

FastIron Router(config)#interface ethernet 1/1

FastIron Router(config-if-e10000-1/1)#optical-monitor

To configure a range of XFP ports for optical monitoring, use the following command:

FastIron Router(config)#interface ethernet 1/1 to 1/2

FastIron Router(config-mif-e10000-1/1-1/2)#optical-monitor

Syntax: [no] optical-monitor <alarm-interval>

The optional <alarm-interval> variable sets the interval in minutes between which alarms or messages are sent. The default interval is 3 minutes.

You can view the XFP optical monitoring information using the show optic command as shown:

FastIron Router#show optic				4
Port	Temperature Tx Power				Rx Power		Tx Bias Current
+----	+-----------	C	+----------	+	------------	+-------------------	41.790	+
4/1	30.8242		-001.8822	dBm -002.5908		dBm		mA
4/2	Normal	C	Normal		Normal	dBm	Normal
	31.7070		-001.4116	dBm -006.4092			41.976	mA
4/3	Normal	C	Normal		Normal	dBm	Normal
	30.1835		Low-Alarm		-000.5794		0.000	mA
4/4	Normal	C			Normal		Low-Alarm
	0.0000		Normal		Normal		0.000	mA
	Normal						Normal

For Temperature, Tx Power, Rx Power, and Tx Bias Current, values are displayed along with one of the following status values: Low-Alarm, Low-Warn, Normal, High-Warn or High-Alarm. The thresholds that determine these status values are set by the manufacturer of the XFPs. Table 7.1 describes each of these status values.

	Table 7.1: Status Value Description
Status Value	Description
Low-Alarm	Monitored level has dropped below the "low-alarm" threshold set by the XFP manufacturer.
Low-Warn	Monitored level has dropped below the "low-warn" threshold set by the XFP manufacturer.
Normal	Monitored level is within the "normal" range" set by the XFP manufacturer.
High-Warn	Monitored level has climbed above the "high-warn" threshold set by the XFP manufacturer.
High-Alarm	Monitored level has climbed above the "high-alarm" threshold set by the XFP manufacturer.

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