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For Internal Use Only
Fibre Channel Link Error Status Report

The virtualization engine’s host-side and device-side interfaces provide statistical

data for the counts listed in TABLE7-4.
TABLE7-4 Virtualization Engine Statistical Data
CountType Description
Link FailureCount The number of times the virtualization engine’s frame manager
detects a non-operational state or other failureof N_Port
initialization protocol.
Loss of
Synchronization
Count
The number of times that the virtualization engine detects a loss in
synchronization.
Loss of Signal Count The number of times that the virtualization engine’s frame manager
detects a loss of signal.
Primitive Sequence
ProtocolError Thenumber of times that the virtualization engine’s frame manager
detects N_Port protocolerrors.
InvalidTransmission
Word The number of times that the virtualization engine’s 8b/10b
decoder does not detect a valid 10-bit code.
Invalid CRC Count The number of times that the virtualization engine receivesframes
witha bad CRC and a valid EOF. A valid EOF includes EOFn, EOFt,
or EOFdti.