When the conditions for an intermittent error are changed during error monitoring, the number of errors and the amount of time that has passed since the error monitoring started are both reset to 0. As such, the error monitoring will not finish, and it will start over by using the new conditions.
If the conditions are changed while error monitoring is not being performed, error monitoring will start up again and use the updated conditions after any given path is recovered from an error by performing an automatic failback.
The figure below shows the action taken when the conditions for an intermittent error are changed during intermittent error monitoring. For this example, the conditions have been changed from 3 or more errors in 30 minutes, to 3 or more errors in 40 minutes. The events that occur are described by using the time arrows.