I am getting repeated alarms from DFM regarding a new 3550 switch that I am monitoring in Ciscoworks. For some reason the alarm doesn't seem to make sense to me. If I am reading it correctly it is telling me that I have a packet rate of about 75pps on my GE ports, but a broadcast rate of 6.0682523E10%... I don't even know how that is possible!
Is this a spurious message? I have over 30 switches, and this is the only one giving me this error. It is coming every few minutes. I can't re-boot the switch, either. Any ideas? Text of alarm below:
EVENT ID = 00000TX
ALERT ID = 00000RY
TIME = Fri 08-Apr-2005 20:54:57 PDT
STATUS = Active
SEVERITY = Critical
MANAGED OBJECT = hil1-2-3550-4.oregon.idt.com
MANAGED OBJECT TYPE = Switches and Hubs
EVENT DESCRIPTION = HighBroadcastRate::Component=PORT-hil2-2a-6506-1.oregon.idt.com/15.1 [15/1];AvgInputPacketSize=1.04329473E15;InputPacketBroadcastPct=6.0682523E10 %;Type=ETHERNETCSMACD;InputPacketRate=73.36514 PPS;InputPacketBroadcastRate=72.70539 PPS;DuplexMode=FULLDUPLEX;MaxSpeed=1000000000;BroadcastThreshold=15;
