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Chapter 8 – Diagnostics

Introduction

This chapter familiarizes the user with:

•  Using The Alarm System to view and clear Alarms
•  Viewing and clearing the System Log
•  Viewing CPU Diagnostics
•  Loading the Factory Default Configuration
•  Viewing the Product Identification
•  Resetting the switch

Using The Alarm System

Alarm Concepts And Issues

Alarms are the occurrence of events of interest that are logged by the switch. If
alarms have occurred the switch will indicate the number of alarms in the top right
corner of all menu screens.

Figure 47: Diagnostics Menu Showing Alarm Commands

My Switch         Diagnostics                5 ALARMS!

          View Alarms
          Clear Alarms
          View System Log
          Clear System Log
          View CPU Diagnostics
          View Product Identification
          Load Factory Default Configuration
          Reset Unit

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Types Of Alarms

There are two broad types of alarms, active and passive alarms.

Active

Alarms

Active alarms are ongoing. They signify states of operation that are not in
accordance with normal operation. Examples of active alarms include links that
should be active but are not or error rates that are continuously exceeding a certain
threshold.

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