Port Operational States; Port States And Indicators - HP Surestore 64 - Director Switch User Manual

Monitoring and Managing the Director

Port Operational States

Table 4
that display in the Hardware View and Port List View.
Note:
a corrective action is required to return the port to a normal operating state.
Table 4: Port States and Indicators
Port State
Beaconing
Inactive
Invalid
Attachment
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describes the port operational states and the LED and attention indicators
The status indicator displays on the port in the Hardware View. It indicates that
Port
Indicators
Green Amber
Off Blink
or
On
Off Off
On Off
Alert
Indicator
Yellow The port is beaconing. The amber port
Triangle LED blinks once every two seconds to
enable users to find a specific port.
Enable beaconing through the port's
menu on the Port Card View, Port List
View, or Performance View.
Yellow The port is inactive. Reasons for this
Triangle state are in the Reason field of the Port
Properties dialog box. Note that if the
port optics have also failed, the amber
LED will be on.
Yellow The director port is in an invalid
Triangle attachment state in either of five cases:
(1) a loopback plug is connected to the
port and there is no diagnostic test
running, (2) the fiber optic cable is
connected to another port on the same
director, (3) the port type is configured
as an F_Port and it is connected to
another director (E_Port), (4) the port
type is configured as an E_Port and is
connected to an N_Port, or (5) a port
binding violation has occurred due to
an invalid entry in the Bound WWN
column in the Configure Ports dialog
box. Note: Ports can be configured as
G_Ports, F_Ports, and E_Ports through
the Configure Ports dialog box.
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