Port Operational States; Port List Tab View - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 User Manual

Monitoring Products
• State — See
states that are displayed.
• Type — The type of port that varies by product.
Figure 5–1: Port List tab view

Port Operational States

The State column of the Port List tab view displays one of the following operational
states:
• Beaconing — The port is beaconing, which means that a light is flashing on the
hardware.
• Inactive — The switch port is in an inactive state. Reasons for this state
display in the Reason field of the Port Properties page. (You can find more
information at
NOTE: Note that if port optics have also failed, the amber LED will be on.
• Invalid Attachment — The switch port is in an invalid attachment state.
• Link Incident — A link incident occurred on one of the ports.
• Link Reset — The switch and the attached device are performing a link reset
operation to recover the link connection. Ordinarily, this is a transient state that
should not persist.
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Port Operational States
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