3-8 McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual
Maintenence Analysis Procedures
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A link incident may have occ urred, but the LIN alerts opti on is not
enabled and the yellow triangle (attention i ndi c ator) does not appear.
Inspect the Link Incident Log:
a. Select Link Incident from the Logs menu at any view. The Link
Incident Log displays.
b. If a link incident occurred, the port num ber is listed with one of
the following messages.
— Link interface incident - implicit incident.
— Link inte rfa ce incident - bit-erro r threshold exceeded.
— Link failure - loss of signal or loss of synchroni zation.
— Link failure - not-ope rat ional primitive seque nce (NOS)
received.
— Li n k f ailure - primitive sequence timeout.
— Li n k fa ilure - 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. Exit MAP.
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If an incident occurs on the Fibre Channel link between the product
and attached OSI server, a link inciden t record is generated and sent
to the server console using the reporting pr oc edure defined in
T11/99-017v0.
Was a link incident record generated and sent to the OSI server?
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. Exit MAP.