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Below is an example of N-Ring Status from an N-Ring Manager that had a faulted N-Ring, and just
achieved a healthy N-Ring:
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 (Error on high port)!!
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager
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 (Error on low port)!!
N-Ring Status View
Switch is an N-Ring Manager
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
N-Ring OK!!
Ring Status View
Switch is in Ring Manager Mode
Switch No
MAC Address IP Address Subnet Mask Name Ports
RM 00:07:af:ff:f6:e0
192.168.1.136
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A2
A1
1 00:07:af:ff:f6:40
192.168.1.131
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A1
A2
2 00:07:af:ff:f6:60
192.168.1.132
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A2
A1
3 00:07:af:ff:f6:80
192.168.1.133
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A1
A2
4 00:07:af:ff:f6:a0
192.168.1.134
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A2
A1
5 00:07:af:ff:f6:c0
192.168.1.135
255.255.255.0
N-TRON Switch
A1
A2
