Viewing Nic Card Status And Alerts - D-Link DFE-570TX Setup Manual

Viewing NIC Card Status and Alerts

Within the Status dialog box, you can also view the status of each NIC instantly. The
load balancing software keeps track of five different states for each NIC in an array.
These states are represented using different color icons for the NICs in the tree view.
The five states with explanations are shown below.
Green Adapter – Adapter's normal state. Adapter is working properly and
has not failed since system start.
Green Adapter with Red X - Adapter is currently down and has failed for
the first time.
Yellow Adapter - Adapter is currently working properly. However, yellow
state indicates there has been a failure previously. The software will
automatically reactivate adapters that indicate that they are working properly
again.
Yellow Adapter with Red X - Adapter is currently down and has been
down multiple times before.
Red Adapter - Adapter has failed more than three times in one hour
(default) and the software has pulled the adapter from the array. This state
prevents the load balancing software from constantly failing over on faulty
adapters that should be replaced.
NOTE:
Whenever a port changes states, an SNMP alert is sent (assuming you have SNMP
services loaded in NT) and an event is logged to the NT event log.
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The load balancing software will permanently remove a port if it
determines that a port has failed more than three times in one hour
(achieving the red state above). If you will be testing failover
functionality, you may want to adjust this default. Otherwise, if you pull
the wire on a port more than three times, you will have to reactivate the
port from the Advanced Tab to add the port back into the array. Refer to
the Advanced Configuration Options
to learn how to reactivate a permanently inactivated adapter or port.
below to change these defaults or
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