Block Port; Enable Beaconing - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 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 1 Gbit 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 in 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 hp StorageWorks edge switch 2/24 service
manual.
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 HAFM
server.
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