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McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual
Maintenence Analysis Procedures
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A link incident may have occurred, but the LIN alerts option is not
enabled and the yellow triangle (attention indicator) 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 number is listed with one of
the following messages.
— Link interface incident - implicit incident.
— Link interface incident - bit-error threshold exceeded.
— Link failure - loss of signal or loss of synchronization.
— Link failure - not-operational primitive sequence (NOS)
received.
— Link failure - primitive sequence timeout.
— Link failure - 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
Port Failure or Link Incident Analysis
. Exit MAP.
Perform a data collection and contact the next level of support. Refer
to
. Exit MAP.
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If an incident occurs on the Fibre Channel link between the product
and attached OSI server, a link incident record is generated and sent
to the server console using the reporting procedure 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
Port Failure or Link Incident Analysis
. Exit MAP.
Perform a data collection and contact the next level of support. Refer
to
. Exit MAP.