Monitoring Link Incidents; Cascaded Ficon Setup; Configure A Fabric For Cascaded Ficon - Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Monitoring 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.
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To monitor 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.

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 higher. 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 higher.

CONFIGURE A FABRIC FOR CASCADED FICON

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, and click OK. Fabric
Manager then performs the following operations on the selected fabric:
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Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide
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describes the types of link and implicit link incidents.
Types of link and implicit link incidents
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
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The Source column shows raslog in Events tab and errlog in FICON Events tab.
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The Module Name column (Events tab) shows MS.
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The Message ID column (Events tab) shows MS-1009.
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In the FICON Events tab, RLIR events are displayed.
Turns on the insistent domain ID flag (IDID) on all switches.
Enables port-based routing on 4 Gbit/sec platform switches.
Disables Dynamic Load Sharing (DLS) on all switches.
Enables In-Order Delivery (IOD) on all switches.
Sets High Integrity Fabric Configuration (HIFC) on the seed switch.

Monitoring link incidents

Implicit link incidents (FRU failures)
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