Displaying The Status Of A Port; Displaying Software Statistics For A Port; Displaying Hardware Statistics For A Port - HP StorageWorks 8B - FC Entry Switch Manual

Displaying Error Logs and Status
This chapter provides information on displaying port and switch status information.

Displaying the Status of a Port

There are two types of statistics you can view for a port:
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software statistics
•
hardware statistics

Displaying Software Statistics for a Port

Software statistics for a port include information such as port state, number of interrupts, number of
link failures, number of loss of synchronization warnings, and number of loss of signal warnings.
To display the software statistics for a port:
1. Login to the switch as the admin user.
2. At the command line enter the following command:
portShow portnumber
where portnumber is the number of the port you want to view. A table of software statistics
for the port is displayed.
Note:

Displaying Hardware Statistics for a Port

Hardware statistics for a port include information such as number of frames received, number of
frames sent, number of encoding errors received, and number of class 2 and 3 frames received.
To display the hardware statistics for a port:
1. Login to the switch as the admin user.
2. At the command line enter the following command:
portStatsShow portnumber
Fabric OS Procedures Guide
For more information on the portShow command refer to the Fabric OS Reference Guide.
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