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Monitoring and Managing the Switch
being detected through a port connection that may require operator
intervention to correct.
If LIN alerts are enabled for a port in the Configure Ports dialog box, a
yellow triangle (attention indicator) displays by the port connector in
the Hardware View or in the Alert column in the Port List View. A
corresponding triangle displays for the card on the Hardware View.
Double-clicking the port with the yellow triangle displays the Port
Properties dialog box.
If LIN alerts have been enabled for a port in the Configure Ports dialog
box, the Port Properties dialog box contains a short description of the
latest incident in the Link Incident field. Or, if there are no active
incidents, “None” displays. The system writes all link incidents to the
Link Incident Log.
If you enable LIN alerts for a port in the Configure Ports dialog box,
configure e-mail notification through the EFC Manager, and enable
E-Mail Notification through the Maintenance menu, you will receive
e-mail notification of LIN alerts.
The e-mail notification of LIN alerts is available to all users; no user rights are
imposed.
Although you can clear the attention indicator in the Hardware View
and the alert description in the Port Properties dialog box manually,
they may also be cleared by actions outside of your control; such as
on EFC Server reboot.
You can clear the link incident indicator in the Hardware View and the
description in the Link Incident field manually. To manually clear the
attention indicator (yellow triangle), right-click the port with the
yellow triangle and select Clear Link Incident Alert(s) from the menu.
In the Clear Link Incident Alert(s) dialog box, select the appropriate
option and click OK.
Be aware that clearing the incident indicator clears it for everyone
using the system. If there are no link incident alerts enabled for a
port, no actions occur.
Threshold Alerts
A threshold alert notifies Product Manager users when the transmit
(Tx) or receive (Rx) throughput reaches specific values for switch
ports or port types (E_Ports, F_Ports, or FL_Ports).