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Monitoring and Managing the Switch
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McDATA® Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
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• Beaconing
This field indicates the beaconing status for the port. To enable or
disable beaconing, right-click the port and select Enable Beaconing.
• Link Incident
Description of the last link incident that occurred on the port.
• Operational State
Beaconing, inactive, invalid attachment, link incident, link reset,
no light, not operational, online, offline, port failure, segmented
E_Port, testing, or not installed. Refer to
definitions of operational states.
• Reason
When the port operating state is "Segmented E_Port," "Invalid
Attachment," or "Inactive," this field displays the reason for that
state. When an E_Port is segmented, two fabrics are prevented
from joining. This only occurs when the switch is connected to
another switch.
The following messages display in the Reason field of the Port
Properties dialog box if an Invalid Attachment, Segmented E_Port,
or Inactive state occurs for the port.
Invalid Attachment Messages:
— 01 Unknown. Invalid attachment reason cannot be determined.
— 02 ISL connection not allowed on this port. Port is configured as
an F_Port, but connected to switch or switch.
— 03 ELP rejected by the attached switch. This switch transmitted
an exchange link protocol (ELP) frame that was rejected by the
switch at the other end of the ISL.
— 04 Incompatible switch at the other end of the ISL. Interop mode
for this switch is set to Open Fabric mode and the switch at the
other end of the ISL is a McDATA switch configured for
McDATA Fabric mode.
— 05 External loopback adapter connected to the port. A loopback
plug. is connected to the port.
— 06 N_Port connection not allowed on this port. The port type
configuration does not match the actual port use. Port is
configured as an E_Port, but attaches to a node device.
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