Interpreting interface errors graph

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Hi,

I am having little difficulties understanding the interface errors graphs:

  1. The average value seems to be higher than than maximum value - is this a rounding / conversion issue?
  2. How should these values be interpreted?
  3. Is the graphed value just the delta count from the previous counter divided by the graph’s interval?

See this example figure from a 100 Gbit/s interface from a Cisco Nexus C9364C device (Cisco NX-OS)

librenms_port_errors
librenms_port_errors1302×801 266 KB

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[OK] Composer Version: 2.0.8
[OK] Dependencies up-to-date.
[OK] Database connection successful
[OK] Database schema correct
[INFO] Detected Python Wrapper
[OK] Connection to memcached is ok
[WARN] Global lnms shortcut not installed. lnms command must be run with full path
[FIX]:
sudo ln -s /opt/librenms/lnms /usr/local/bin/lnms
[WARN] Bash completion not installed. lnms command tab completion unavailable.
[FIX]:
sudo cp /opt/librenms/misc/lnms-completion.bash /etc/bash_completion.d/
[WARN] Your install is over 24 hours out of date, last update: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 07:45:53 +0000
[FIX]:
Make sure your daily.sh cron is running and run ./daily.sh by hand to see if there are any errors.

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My interpretation is that this is millibps, while your maximum is in bps. Not many errors at all, but they are errors, and depending on the load, they will increase.

Are you running ACI or NXOS? On NXOS you should verify if you are running FEC or not. If not, you can enable FEC and it will probably “fix” the link. NXOS has as far as I know limited commands to verify FEC “show interface fec” is the only command I know.

Is this a optical link? Based on my experience 100G is really sensitive to optical values. Adding attenuators to make the link “perfect” really does solve issues like this.

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ACI and yes, it’s optical.