RE: Weird Token Ring Message?s

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As everybody told you, that is a normal message whenever another token-ring
device starts up or shuts down. If you do not want to see those messages,
change your token-ring line description to LOGCFGCHG(*NOLOG). You can do
this even while the line is varied on and active.

-Marty

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Date: 5 Mar 2002 16:01:32 -0800
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: thomas@inorbit.com
Subject: Re:
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Meyers:

On Tue, 05 March 2002, Meyers QSYSOPR wrote:

> I have just been given the duties of sysopr and have noticed a strange me=
ssage or two that I would like to run by you folks.  The first message is C=
PF8B41, and the message text is as follows;
>
> Message . . . . :   Adapter has inserted or left the ring on line TRNLINE=
.
>
> Any ideas what this message means?

IIRC, it means two things. First, somebody powered up a workstation with a =
T-R adaptor somewhere in the ring -- this is pretty certain. Second, it mea=
ns that your AS/400 is acting as a ring monitor and reporting conditions on=
 the ring -- this is much more hazy in memory; I cannot positively recall i=
f this message can be suppressed by turning off the monitor function nor ca=
n I recall exactly where this would be done.

I do recall that years ago we had no good equipment to monitor our T-R and =
our AS/400 did a passable job at keeping us informed of conditions. We coul=
d _always_ tell when the IBM CE was servicing a PC with 4/16Mbps adaptor an=
d powered it up with the wrong configuration.  :-)

Tom Liotta