Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001770-01, June 2010)

62 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
53-1001770-01
Port class guidelines and default settings
7
• Areas: Primitive Sequence Protocol Error, State Changes, Utilization, Packet Loss
These areas are not used for monitoring; therefore, leave the default alarm settings at 0.
E_Port class default settings
Table 16 provides default settings for areas in the E_Port class.
Port fencing can be enabled or disabled for the following areas for the E_Port class:
• Link Failure Count
• Loss of Synchronization Count
• Primitive Sequence Protocol Error
• Invalid Transmission Word
• Invalid CRC Count
TABLE 16 E_Port class default settings
Area Description Default threshold
settings
Default alarm settings Threshold state
Class 3 Discards Class 3 discards
frames due to
timeout or
destination
unreachable.
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 5
Buffer: 0
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range
Invalid CRC Count Monitors the
number of CRC
errors
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 1000
Buffer: 100
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range
Invalid Transmission
Words (ITW)
Monitors the
number of invalid
words transmitted
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 1000
Buffer: 100
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range
Link Failure Count Monitors the
number of link
failures
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 500
Buffer: 50
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range
Loss of Signal Count Monitors the
number of signal
loss errors
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 5
Buffer: 0
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range
Link Reset Monitors the
number of link
resets sent by a
given port (LR-Out)
and received on a
given port (LR-In).
Unit: Errors
Time Base: minute
Low: 0
High: 500
Buffer: 50
Changed: 0
Below: 0
Above: 0
In-Between: 0
Informative
Informative
Out_of_range
In_range