Measures reported by UCSCsIOMFPTest
A typical Cisco UCS system supports upto two I/O modules, each configured with four ports of 10-Gb Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connection to the fabric interconnect. Since the I/O module acts as a bridge between the UCS blades and the fabric interconnect, all ethernet connections to the fabric interconnect will get suspended if one/more ports are rendered unavailable or non-operational for a brief period. It is hence imperative that the administrators be promptly alerted when the I/O module ports start behaving abnormally so that, remedial measures can be initiated instantaneously to avoid a prolonged port outage.
This test monitors the overall health and availability of each of the ports in every I/O module, and sends out proactive alerts to potential performance anomalies.
The measures made by this test are as follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement
Unit |
Interpretation |
| OperState |
Indicates the overall status of this port in this I/O module. |
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The States reported by this measure and their corresponding numeric equivalents are described in the table below:
| Numeric Value |
State |
| 0 |
Indeterminate |
| 1 |
Up |
| 2 |
Admin-down |
| 3 |
Link-down |
| 4 |
Failed |
| 5 |
No-license |
| 6 |
Link-up |
| 7 |
Hardware-failure |
| 8 |
Software-failure |
| 9 |
Error-disabled |
| 10 |
Sfp-not-present |
Note:By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the status of a port. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states i.e., 0 to 10.
The detailed diagnosis of this measure provides the Time, ID, Slot ID, Chassis ID, Fabric ID, Port Type, Role Type, Network Type, Transport Type and Peer details of the I/O Module fabric ports. |
| Acknowledged |
Indicates the current acknowledgment status of this port in this I/O module. |
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The States reported by this measure and their corresponding numeric equivalents are described in the table below:
| Numeric Value |
State |
| 1 |
Un-initialized |
| 2 |
Un-acknowledged |
| 3 |
Unsupported-connectivity |
| 4 |
Ok |
| 5 |
Removing |
Note:By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the acknowledment status of a port. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states i.e., 1 to 5. |
| Discovery |
Indicates the current discovered status of this port in this I/O module. |
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The States reported by this measure and their corresponding numeric equivalents are described in the table below:
| Numeric Value |
State |
| 0 |
Absent |
| 1 |
Present |
| 2 |
Mis-connect |
| 3 |
Missing |
| 4 |
New |
Note:By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned States while indicating the discovery state of a port. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states i.e., 0 to 4. |
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