ALR0545W The Error Frame Rate of port port name in device device name was measured to be measured value cnt/s, which violated the defined warning-stress boundary value of boundary value cnt/s.

Explanation

Error Frame Rate measures the average number of frame errors that were received per second for ports. A threshold was defined on this metric, which causes the measured value to be compared to the defined boundaries for each set of performance statistics collected from the storage system or switch.

This message indicates that a threshold boundary violation occurred. In this case, the specified port in the storage system or switch has an Error Frame Rate that is greater than or equal to the warning-stress boundary, but less than the critical-stress boundary that was defined for the related threshold.

Action

The threshold violation might indicate that a hardware or configuration problem exists either for this port or for the connected fabric. Isolated errors can be ignored in most cases, but if the error rate remains consistently high over time, this may be a cause for concern. Follow the trouble-shooting guidelines for the storage system or switch, and for the connected entity (storage system, switch, or server HBA).

Because isolated temporary errors can be ignored in most cases, consider enabling the alert suppression option "Suppress alerts unless the triggering condition has been violated continuously for a specified length of time" for this threshold. This can greatly reduce the number of unnecessary alerts.