Dell EMC Metro node 7.0.1 Administrator Guide

Things to note

Take note of the number of ports and the number of directors reporting issues. For instance, if half of the ports are reporting issues, then it may indicate a fabric-wide event. Whereas if only one port is reporting an error, then the problem is localized to a specific I-T Nexus.

The script is designed to suppress email after 5 minutes (as to not flood an email server). At that point, it will only report once an hour. The firmware connect to management server will contain all reports including any that were suppressed to email.

Logging: The logging file port-stats-monitor.log can be found on the management server in the /var/log/VPlex/cli/ directory.This log file is gathering raw data. The grep command [grep "back-end\|front-end\|wan-com" /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log] can produce a summary that is related to error reported in the port-stats-monitor.log file.

Example:
grep "back-end\|front-end\|wan-com" /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log

/var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log.9:director-1-1-B B1-FC02 (back-end) invalid-transmission-word has increased by 2956
/var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log.9:director-1-1-B B1-FC02 (back-end) loss-of-sync has increased by 443
/var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log.9:director-1-1-B B1-FC02 (back-end) invalid-transmission-word has increased by 3494
/var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log.9:director-1-1-B B1-FC02 (back-end) loss-of-sync has increased by 528
/var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.log.9:director-1-1-B B1-FC02 (back-end) invalid-transmission-word has increased by 5996