Sun Microsystems 5602 User Manual

4 – Managing Switches
Configuring Port Threshold Alarms

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You can configure the switch to generate alarms for selected events. Configuring 
an alarm involves choosing an event type, rising and falling triggers, a sample 
window, and finally enabling or disabling the alarm. To configure port threshold 
alarms, do the following:

1.

In the faceplate display, open the Switch menu and select Port Threshold 
Alarm Configuration. The Port Threshold Alarm Configuration dialog 
shown in 

 prompts you to enable or disable all alarms, select an 

event, set triggers, set a sample window and enable or disable an individual 
alarm.

2.

Check the Enable All Port Threshold Alarms check box to enable 
monitoring for all the individual alarm types that are enabled. The Enable All 
Port Threshold Alarms check box is the master control for the individual 
alarms. For example, the switch will monitor CRC errors only if both the 
CRC Error Monitoring box and the Enable All Port Threshold Alarms 
check box are checked.

3.

Select an event type from the Port Threshold Alarm pull-down menu. 
Choose from the following options:
„

CRC error monitoring

„

Decode error monitoring

„

ISL monitoring

„

Login monitoring

„

Logout monitoring

„

Loss of signal monitoring

4.

Check the Enable box to make the alarm eligible for use.