In rare cases an N-Ring can have a “Partial Fault”. An example of this is to have a break in just one fiber in a duplex channel fiber pair. The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a ‘Higher’ N-Ring Port (GB2 or FX2) is not receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (low GB1/FX1) N-Ring port is:
N-Ring Partial Fault (GB2 is not receiving self health from GB1)
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager, using N-Ring Aging Time = 20 seconds
0 Active Members Detected In Current N-Ring (0 reporting)
Switch No | MAC Address | IP Address | Subnet Mask | Name | Ports |
00:07:af:00:b1:40 192.168.1.135 255.255.255.0 N-TRON Switch
The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a ‘Lower’ N-Ring Port (GB1 or FX1) is not receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (high GB2/FX2) N-Ring port is:
N-Ring Partial Fault (GB1 is not receiving self health from GB2)
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager, using N-Ring Aging Time = 20 seconds
0 Active Members Detected In Current N-Ring (0 reporting)
Switch No | MAC Address | IP Address | Subnet Mask | Name | Ports |
00:07:af:00:b1:40 192.168.1.135 255.255.255.0 N-TRON Switch
