HP StorageWorks 2.140 Director Switch - Manual (Page 114)

Monitoring and managing the Director
112 Director Element Manager User Guide
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 ElementManager. 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, 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.
Double-clicking 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.
If you enable LIN alerts for a port in the Element Manager Configure Ports dialog
box, configure e-mail notification through HAFM, and enable E-Mail Notification
through the Element Manager Maintenance menu, you will receive e-mail
notification of LIN alerts.
Note: The e-mail notification of LIN alerts is available to all users; no feature
permissions 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 rebooting the HAFM appliance.
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 Alert(s) from the menu. In the Clear Link Incident Alert(s) dialog
box, choose the appropriate option and click OK. Be aware that clearing the
incident indicator clears it for everyone monitoring the system. If there are no link
incident alerts enabled for a port, no actions occur.