D-Link DFE-570TX Setup Manual page 12

Status Tab - Viewing NIC Card Status and Alerts
Within the Status tab, you can view the status of each NIC instantly. DFE-570TX 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. DFE-570TX 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
DFE-570TX has pulled the adapter from the array. This state prevents DFE-570TX
from constantly failing over on faulty adapters that should be replaced.
NOTE:
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Figure 6. Viewing status information for each adapter in the array with the Status tab.
DFE-570TX will permanently remove a NIC if it determines that the NIC card 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 NIC card more than three times, you will
have to reactivate the adapter from the Status Tab to add the NIC back into the
array. Refer to the Advanced Tab- Advanced Configuration Options
change these defaults.
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