Managing Ports; Viewing Port Information; Port Information Data Window; Port Information Data Window Buttons - HP StorageWorks 8/20q User Manual

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Managing Ports

This chapter describes port management tasks.

Viewing port information

The faceplate display uses color and text to show the port type, operational state, transmission speed, and
media status. To display number and status information for a port, position the cursor over a port on the
faceplate display. The status information changes depending on the View menu option selected. Green
ports indicate active; gray ports indicate inactive. Context-sensitive popup menus are displayed when you
right-click a port icon in the faceplate display.
The Port Information and Port Statistics data windows provide port information and port statistics for
selected ports.

Port Information data window

The Port Information data window
open the Port Information data window:
1. Select a switch or a stack in the fabric tree.
2. Select one or more ports in the faceplate display, and click the Port Info data window tab.
Figure 77

Port Information data window

The Port Information data window has several buttons from which you can choose the type of information
to display as shown in
Table 24

Port Information data window buttons

Button
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Table 24.
Description
Summary—Basic port status information
Advanced—Status of advanced features such as I/O StreamGuard (message
suppression) and Multiple Frame Sequence bundling
Extended credit—Extended credit and donor port information
77) displays detailed port information for the selected ports. To
(Table 25)
(Table 26)
(Table 27)