The two objects dot3OamErrSymPeriodThresholdHi and dot3OamErrSymPeriodThresholdLo together form an unsigned 64-bit integer representing the number of symbol errors that must occur within a given window to cause this event.

This is defined as

dot3OamErrSymPeriodThreshold = ((2^32) * dot3OamErrSymPeriodThresholdHi) + dot3OamErrSymPeriodThresholdLo

If dot3OamErrSymPeriodThreshold symbol errors occur within a window of dot3OamErrSymPeriodWindow symbols, an Event Notification OAMPDU should be generated with an Errored Symbol Period Event TLV indicating that the threshold has been crossed in this window.

The default value for dot3OamErrSymPeriodThreshold is one symbol error. If the threshold value is zero, then an Event Notification OAMPDU is sent periodically (at the end of every window). This can be used as an asynchronous notification to the peer OAM entity of the statistics related to this threshold crossing alarm.