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In rare cases an N-Ring can have a “Partial Fault”. An example of this is to have a break in just one fiber in
a duplex channel fiber pair. The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a „Higher‟ N-Ring
Port (A2 or E2) is not receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (low
A1/E1) N-Ring port is:
N-Ring Partial Fault (A2 is not receiving self health from A1)
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager, using N-Ring Aging Time = 20 seconds
Refresh every
6
secs.
Update
Pause
Print...
0 Active Members Detected In Current N-Ring (0 reporting)
Switch No
MAC Address
IP Address
Subnet Mask
Name
Ports
RM
00:07:af:00:b1:40
192.168.1.135
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A2
A1
The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a „Lower‟ N-Ring Port (A1 or E1) is not
receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (high A2/E2) N-Ring port is:
N-Ring Partial Fault (A1 is not receiving self health from A2)
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager, using N-Ring Aging Time = 20 seconds
Refresh every
6
secs.
Update
Pause
Print...
0 Active Members Detected In Current N-Ring (0 reporting)
Switch No
MAC Address
IP Address
Subnet Mask
Name
Ports
RM
00:07:af:00:b1:40
192.168.1.135
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A2
A1