BPCSS0052W Performance data continuity is broken. The device might have been reset or rebooted. record count performance data records were discarded.

Explanation

This message indicates that invalid performance information was received from the device.

In general, performance information is represented as a set of ever-increasing counters, and actual statistics are computed by taking the difference between two consecutive sets of such counters.

However if a counter appears to have decreased instead of increased between consecutive sets, the information is unusable and is discarded.

Note that counters can be expected to decrease if they are reset to zeroes, which might happen normally when a device is reset or rebooted (for example when new firmware is loaded),or in some cases when a device agent (CIMOM for example) is reset or rebooted.

In those situations, this warning message can be safely ignored.

If this warning occurs when no reset or reboot has occurred, the device or device agent might be generating incorrect performance statistics, and you might have to contact your device vendor for further instructions.