Block Port - McDATA Sphereon 4500 User Manual

• Distance: General distance range for port transmission. This can
be either short to long distances for the longwave laser LC
transceiver or short distances for the shortwave laser LC
transceivers.
• Media: The Fibre Channel mode and optic size. For the longwave
laser LC transceiver, this would be singlemode 9-micron. For the
shortwave laser LC transceiver, this would be multimode
50-micron or 62.5-micron.
• Speed: This will be either 1Gbit per second or 1 Gbit, 2 Gbit per
second.

Block Port

Click to display a check mark and block port transmission If blocked,
a node attached to the port is prevented from logging into the switch
or communicating with other devices attached to switch ports. A
blocked port continuously transmits offline signals (OLS). Click to
remove the check mark and unblock the port. If unblocked, a node
attached to the port can communicate with the switch and
communicate with other nodes attached to the switch.
Enable Beaconing
Click this to make the amber LED by the port blink on the actual
switch and the amber indicator blink for the port in the Hardware
View. This enables users to locate the unit where the port is located.
When a blinking amber LED indicator displays by a port, an attention
indicator ( ) displays below the port's connector in the Hardware
View and on the port's row in the Port List View.
Port Diagnostics
Click this option to display the Port Diagnostics dialog box. Use this
dialog box to run an internal loopback and external loopback test on
the port. The Port Diagnostics option enables you to run internal and
external loopback tests on any port. To use this option, follow the
detailed steps in the McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation
and Service Manual (620-000159).
Clear Link Incident Alert(s)
Click this to clear the attention indicator on the Hardware View, the
Port List View, and the Performance View. In addition, the procedure
clears the alert description in Port Properties dialog boxes. If there are
no link incident alerts set for a port, no actions occur. Although you
can manually clear link incidents, they may also be cleared by actions
outside of the user interface, such as when rebooting the EFC Server.
Monitoring and Managing the Switch
Hardware View
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