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director product manager user guide
Monitoring and Managing the Director
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Operating Speed—This field displays the current data speed for the port as
1 Gb/sec, 2 Gb/sec, or Not Established. Not established displays if Negotiate was
set for the port through the Configure Ports dialog box and the data speed has not
been resolved between the port and the attached device, or if the port and device
are not communicating.
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Fibre Channel Address—The port’s Fibre Channel address identifier.
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Port WWN—The port’s 16-digit World Wide Name (WWN).
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Attached Port WWN—The WWN of the node logged into the port.
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Block Configuration—Blocked or unblocked. Operation can be blocked or
unblocked through the Configure Ports dialog box or through the block ports
options on right-click menus in the Port Card View. Refer to “
Configuring Ports
”
on
page 3–9
and “
Using the Port Card View
” on
page 2–15
for details.
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10–100 km Configuration—Extended distance buffering. This can be enabled or
disabled for the port through the Configure Ports dialog box. Refer to
“
Configuring Ports
” on
page 3–9
for instructions.
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LIN Alerts Configuration—This field indicates whether link incident (LIN)
alerts are enabled or disabled. LIN alerts can be configured through the Configure
Ports dialog box. The default is for the LIN alerts to be enabled.
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Beaconing—This field indicates the beaconing status for the port. To enable or
disable beaconing, right-click the port and choose Enable Beaconing.
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Link Incident—Description of the last link incident that occurred on the port.
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Operational State—Beaconing, inactive, invalid attachment, link incident, link
reset, no light, not operational, online, offline, port failure, segmented E-Port, and
testing. Refer to
Table 2–1
for definitions of operational states.
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Reason—Lists the reason for a segmented E_Port operating state or invalid
attachment, or inactive operating state for the port. An E_Port segmentation
occurs only when the director is connected to another director or a switch. This
field displays “NA” if a segmented E_Port or invalid attachment operating state
has not occurred.
Refer to the section on joining zoned fabrics in the hp StorageWorks SAN high
availability planning guide.
The following messages display in the Reason field of the Port dialog box if an
Invalid Attachment, Segmented E_Port, or Inactive State occurs for the port.
Reason messages for segmentation can include:
