Port Tabs
Ethernet and Fibre Channel Application
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Interface Setup (Fibre Channel)
Login
The capability to log in is available only if a successful link has been
established with
Framed Layer 2
.
Enable
: Allows, when the
Enable
check box is selected, to either
generate a login process when clicking on the
Login
button, or to
accept a remote
Login
command.
Advertised BB_Credit
: Advertised BB_Credit is the number of frame
buffers that a local port has available to receive frames from another
port. Advertised BB_Credit is advertised to the remote port through the
login process. Choices are from
1
to
65535
. The default setting is
10
.
Discovered Topology
: Indicates the discovered FC topology which
can be :
Fabric
: N_Ports interconnected to a Fabric switching network.
Point-to-Point
: link between two N_Ports.
“ - ” : When login is disabled.
Fabric Status
: Indicates the status of the Fabric switching network. The
status is not available when the topology is
Point-to-Point
. Possible
status are:
Logged-in
: The login process has completed successfully.
Failed
: The login process has not been able to complete the login
process or an error has been detected. However, traffic can still be
transmitted.
In Progress
: The login process is running (not completed yet).
Logged-out
: The system has not logged in yet, has received a valid
Logout command from the remote port, or the
Login
check box has
been cleared.