Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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The Capability column identifies ports that have completed the RNID exchange with a value of
FICON.
Link incidents
Problems that occur on links between a host and the switch, or between the storage CUP and the
switch are known as link incidents. Any FRU failures are referred to as implicit link incidents.
Table 20 describes the types of link and implicit link incidents.
Monitoring link and implicit link incidents
1. Select a switch from the View panel.
2. Click the Events tab or the FICON Events tab in the Information panel.
3. Check the value in the Source column within the tab.
• The Source column shows raslog in Events tab and errlog in FICON Events tab.
• The Module Name column (Events tab) shows MS.
• The Message ID column (Events tab) shows MS-1009.
• In the FICON Events tab, RLIR events are displayed.
Cascaded FICON setup
This section describes how you can use Fabric Manager to configure a fabric for cascaded FICON
and to merge two fabrics for cascaded FICON.
You can configure a fabric for cascaded FICON only if all switches in the fabric are running
Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later. You cannot configure a secure fabric for cascaded FICON with the Fabric
Manager FICON Configuration utility.
To merge two fabrics for cascaded FICON, both fabrics must have all switches running Fabric OS
v5.2.0 or later.
Cascaded FICON configuration
Using Fabric Manager, you can easily configure a fabric for cascaded FICON. You launch the utility,
select a fabric to configure, indicate whether you want FMS mode set, change the IOD Delay times
for switch pairs if you wish, and click OK. Fabric Manager then performs the following operations on
the selected fabric:
TABLE 20 Types of link and implicit link incidents
Link incidents Implicit link incidents (FRU failures)
• Bit-error-rate threshold exceeded
• Loss of signal or synchronization
• Non-operational primitive sequence (NOS)
recognized
• Primitive sequence time-out
• Invalid primitive sequence for port state
• WWN card
• Power supply
• System hardware slot
• Fan