HP J3250M manual Find/Fix/Inform Faults

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

Alerts - Find/Fix/Inform

Interpreting the Alert Log - Find/Fix/Inform

The dialog box displays more information about the alert as well as some suggestions for fixing the problem. When you have reviewed an alert, the “New” icon is no longer displayed. Closing an alert indicates that it is no longer a problem.

The following table shows the common faults and how they are indicated.

Table 5-1. Find/Fix/Inform Faults

Problem	How the Problem is Indicated
Fault 1: Problem Driver or Network	Indicated by long or short packets with good
Interface Card (NIC)	CRCs.
Fault 2: Problem XCVR or NIC	Indicated by long packets with bad CRCs.
Fault 3: Problem Cable	Indicated by normal size packets with CRC
	errors.
Fault 4. Cable Length/Repeater Hops	Indicated by late collisions.
Fault 5: Over Bandwidth	Indicated by a high collision rate.
Fault 6: Broadcast Storm	Indicated by a high rate of broadcast packets.
Fault 7: Auto Partition (hubs only)	Indicated by a port repeatedly partitioning and
	healing due to a network loop or problem cable.
Fault 8: Misconfigured SQE (hub only)	Indicates a misconfigured transceiver detected
	by internal hardware.
Fault 9: Polarity reversal (hub only)	Indicates a mis-wired cable detected by internal
	hardware.
Fault 10: Network Loops	Indicated by a high traffic level in correlation
	with duplicate traffic on the network.
Fault 11: Link Loss	Lost link beat to a cascade port.

The Find/Fix/Inform function runs continuously in the background at a sensi­ tivity threshold level that you select. Sensitivity threshold settings control the severity of the alerts that are displayed. The settings internally adjust the counter thresholds automatically.

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