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тАО04-14-2005 04:09 AM
тАО04-14-2005 04:09 AM
Is there a way we can track down the source and help eliminate these warnings?
See PCM+ attached screenshot
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тАО04-14-2005 05:05 AM
тАО04-14-2005 05:05 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
Basically, when a machine boots, in the syslog you may see several log entries:
ports: ...off-line
ports: ...on-line
FFI: ...CRC/alingment errors
FFI: ...Excessive Broadcasts
These are normal and usually can be ignored. Problem is when can they be ignored and when should there be more concern? PCM does not have any option to decide that important question.
You don't mention what model switch you have and what code level. After updating my 5308xl switches to 9.22, almost all of those alerts are no longer being trapped.
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тАО04-14-2005 05:25 AM
тАО04-14-2005 05:25 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
Device syslog in PCM is not configed, but can I check that manually?
(For that matter, how do I get PCM to populate the device syslog page?)
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тАО04-14-2005 05:44 AM
тАО04-14-2005 05:44 AM
SolutionTo setup syslog, in the CLI:
config
logging 10.11.12.13
Of course the IP would have to be that of the PCM box. If you have other syslog servers, you may want to add those as well.
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тАО04-14-2005 06:37 AM
тАО04-14-2005 06:37 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
Heres the syslog from one affected switch
I 04/14/05 17:16:14 ports: port 47 is now on-line
I 04/14/05 17:16:17 ports: port 47 is now off-line
I 04/14/05 17:16:19 ports: port 47 is now on-line
W 04/14/05 17:16:30 FFI: port 47-Excessive CRC/alignment errors. See help.
I 04/14/05 17:17:11 ports: port 35 is now on-line
I 04/14/05 17:20:20 ports: port 3 is now off-line
I 04/14/05 17:20:23 ports: port 3 is now on-line
I 04/14/05 17:20:28 ports: port 3 is now off-line
I 04/14/05 17:20:30 ports: port 3 is now on-line
W 04/14/05 17:20:44 FFI: port 3-Excessive Broadcasts. See help.
So you're saying that can generally be ignored?
Is there a way to have PCM set a threshhold to ignore these (I have "link up/down" ignored already), so in the event of a real broadcast storm we may get a notice?
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тАО04-14-2005 07:49 AM
тАО04-14-2005 07:49 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
As for tracking down the source and eliminating the warnings, good luck. You may try experimenting with newer drivers or power management settings to reduce the volume of warnings but I doubt you can eliminate them completely.
I am not sure what HP put in their 9.22 code, but it reduced the noise in my logs by around 90%. For that I say KUDOS and THANKS.
I have been a bit of a thorn in their side on this topic for some time now. They probably consider me "noise" as well. ;)
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тАО04-14-2005 08:36 AM
тАО04-14-2005 08:36 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
thanks :-)
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тАО04-14-2005 10:46 PM
тАО04-14-2005 10:46 PM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
Don't they indicate that there's a driver issue, cabling issue or switch issue?
I'm seeing lots of these on my 2650's.
Regards,
S├Г┬╕r
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тАО04-15-2005 12:02 AM
тАО04-15-2005 12:02 AM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
If there are port toggles and the computer is NOT booting or rebooting they should not be ignored. You are correct, that toggles may be an indication of a hardware/software issue or power management setting.
That was why I said that PCM does not have the intelligence to decide what not to log. A human needs to interpret the lo
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тАО04-28-2005 10:35 PM
тАО04-28-2005 10:35 PM
Re: What qualifies as "excessive broadcasts" ?
I meet the same link up/down problem as S├Г┬╕ren Fisker on 2650 switchs. We have 5304xl and 2824 switchs too and the error seems not appear on they. We have tried every thing around speed-duplex auto-nego, MDI mode and LACP, but the errors still appear. The problem is that the toggle last 20 ms, that is transparent for all applications except "Lotus Notes" which hang on each toggle.
Have you identify the problem on your 2650 switch