director product manager user guide
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Monitoring and Managing the Director
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Port Properties—Choose this option to display the Port Properties dialog box
(refer to
Figure 2–11
).
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Define Nickname—Choose this option to display the Define Nickname dialog
box, where you can define a nickname to display for the attached device instead of
the device’s 8-byte WWN.
The Define Nickname dialog box displays the World Wide Name (WWN) of the
device attached to the port. To define a nickname, enter a name of up to 32
characters in the Nickname field, and click OK. The nickname will display under
the Port WWN column instead of the device’s WWN.
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Display Options—Choose Nickname or Worldwide Name from the submenu.
Choosing Nickname displays attached devices in the Port WWN column by the
nickname configured through the Define Nickname menu option. Choosing
Worldwide Name displays attached devices in the Port WWN column by the
device’s WWN.
Displaying Node Properties
To open the Node Properties dialog box as shown in
Figure 2–17
, double-click a row
in the Node List View or right-click a row and choose Node Properties from the
menu. You can also right-click on a port in the Port Card View, right-click a port’s
row in the Port List View, and right-click on a port’s bar graph in the Performance
View and choose Node Properties from the menu that displays. In addition, you can
display this dialog box when you click a port, port row, or bar graph in the preceding
views and choose Node Properties form the secondary Port menu under the Product
menu on the menu bar. Note that if a node is not logged in, a message displays
indicating that node information is not available.
