edge switch 2/32 product manager user guide

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Monitoring and Managing the Switch
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 or
F_Ports).
Choose the Threshold Alerts option on the Configure menu to display the Configure
Threshold Alerts dialog box. Use this dialog box to configure criteria for generating
a threshold alert. One criteria that you must configure is a throughput value that equals
a specific percentage of the port’s total throughput capacity. You also provide a time
interval during which throughput is measured and a time interval during which that
throughput value must remain constant. When throughput reaches the threshold value
and remains constant for the specified time, an alert is generated.
Threshold alerts occur as the following in the Product Manager:
• An attention indicator (yellow triangle) that displays on the port in the Port Card
view.
• An attention indicator (yellow triangle) that displays on the port card in the
Hardware view.
• An attention indicator (yellow triangle) that displays in the Alert column of the
Port List view.
• An attention indicator (yellow triangle) that displays by the Threshold Alerts
field in the Port Properties dialog box.
• Detailed threshold alert data recorded in the Threshold Alert Log.
For detailed procedures to configure threshold alerts, refer to Configure Threshold
Alerts on page 3–28.