Link Incident Alerts - HP StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Product Manager Manual

Monitoring and Managing the Director

Link Incident Alerts

A link incident is a problem detected on a fiber-optic link, like the loss of light, invalid
sequences and other problems. When a problem occurs, a LIN alert is sent to the Link
Incident Log in the Director Product Manager. LIN alerts warn you that there is a link
incident being detected through a port connection that may require operator
intervention to correct.
If LIN alerts are enabled for a port in the Configure Ports dialog box and a link
incident has occurred, a yellow triangle (attention indicator) displays by the port
connector in the Hardware View and Port Card View and in the Alert column in the
Port List View. When you double-click on the port in the Port Card View and Port
List View with the yellow triangle displays the Port Properties dialog box.
If LIN alerts have been enabled for a port in the Configure Ports dialog box, the Port
Properties dialog box contains a short description of the latest incident in the Link
Incident field. Or, if there are no active incidents, None displays. The system writes
all link incidents to the Link Incident Log.
You will receive e-mail notification of LIN alerts if you enable LIN alerts for a port in
the Configure Ports dialog box, configure e-mail notification through the HAFM
application, and enable E-Mail Notification through the Maintenance menu.
NOTE: The e-mail notification of LIN alerts is available to all users; no user rights are imposed.
Although you can clear the attention indicator in the Hardware View and the alert
description in the Port Properties dialog box manually, they may also be cleared by
actions outside of your control: such as on HAFM server reboot.
You can clear the link incident indicator in the Hardware View and the description in
the Link Incident field manually. To manually clear the attention indicator (yellow
triangle), right-click the port with the yellow triangle and choose Clear Link Incident
Alerts from the menu. In the Clear Link Incident Alerts dialog box, choose the
appropriate option and click OK. Be aware that clearing the incident indicator clears it
for everyone using the system. If there are no link incident alerts enabled for a port, no
actions occur.
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