McDATA Sphereon 4500, User Manual

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McDATA® Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
Monitoring and Managing the Switch
Port Operational States
Table 2-1 describes the port operational states and the LED and
attention indicators that display in the Hardware View and Port List
View.
Table 2-1
Port States and Indicators
Port Indicators
Port State Green/Blue Amber Alert Indicator
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Description
Beaconing Off or On Blink Yellow Triangle The port is beaconing. The amber port LED blinks once
every two seconds to enable users to find a specific
port. Enable beaconing through the port’s menu on the
Hardware View, Port List View, or Performance View.
Inactive Off Off Yellow Triangle The switch port is in an inactive state. Reasons for this
state appear in the Reason field of the Port Properties
dialog box.
Note that if port optics have also failed, the amber LED
will be on.
Invalid
Attachment On Off Yellow Triangle The switch port is in an invalid attachment state.
Reasons for this state appear in the Reason field of the
Port Properties dialog box.
Link Incident Off Off Yellow Triangle A link incident occurred on one of the ports and displays
in the Port List View with a corresponding indicator
displaying for the card in the Hardware View.
Link Reset Off Off Yellow Triangle The switch and the attached device are performing a link
reset operation to recover the link connection. Ordinarily,
this is a transient state that should not persist.
No Light Off Off None No signal (light) is being received on the switch port.
This is a normal condition when there is no cable
plugged into the port or when the power of the device
attached to the other end of the link is off.
Not
Operational Off Off Yellow Triangle The switch port is receiving the Fibre Channel not
operational sequence (NOS) indicating that the attached
device is not operational.