EMC Connectrix ED-64M, User Manual

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Connectrix ED-64M User Guide
Monitoring and Managing the Director
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Threshold Alert — If a threshold alert exists for the port, an alert
indicator (yellow triangle) appears by the Threshold Alert field,
and the configured name for the last alert received appears in the
field.
Port Card Menu While in the port card view, right-click on the card away from a port
connector to display a pop-up menu of port card functions.
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Block All Ports — Click Yes to block all ports on the selected
card, or click No to cancel.
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Unblock All Ports — Click Yes to unblock all ports on the
selected card, or click No to cancel.
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Diagnostics — Is used to run internal loopback and external
loopback tests on any port or all ports on the port card.
Port Menu While in the port card view, right-click on any port to display the
following menu options:
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Port Properties — Displays information about the port. Refer to
Displaying Port Properties on page 4-16 for more information.
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Node Properties — Displays a Node Properties window. Note
that if a node is not logged into the port, a message appears
indicating that node information is not available. For details on
information that appears in this window, refer to Displaying Node
Properties on page 4-29.
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Port Technology — Displays the following information:
• Port number .
• Connector type: Always LC Connector.
• Transceiver type: Longwave Laser or Shortwave Laser.
• Distance: General distance range for port transmission. This
can be either short to long distances for the longwave laser LC
transceiver or short distances for the shortwave laser LC
transceivers.
• Media: The Fibre Channel mode and optic size. For the
longwave laser LC transceiver, this would be single-mode 9
micron. For the shortwave laser LC transceiver, this would be
multimode 50-micron or 62.5-micron.
• Speed: 1 GBit, or 2 GBit,1 GBit.
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Block Port — Allows you to block port transmission. If blocked, a
node attached to the port is prevented from logging into the
director or communicating with other devices attached to switch