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SANbox 5602 Switch Management
User’s Guide
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Section 5
Managing Ports
5.1
Displaying Port Information ................................................................................ 5-1
5.1.1
Monitoring Port Status ............................................................................... 5-2
5.1.1.1
Displaying Port Types....................................................................... 5-2
5.1.1.2
Displaying Port Operational States ................................................... 5-3
5.1.1.3
Displaying Port Speeds .................................................................... 5-3
5.1.1.4
Displaying Transceiver Media Status................................................ 5-4
5.1.2
Port Statistics Data Window ...................................................................... 5-5
5.1.3
Port Information Data Window................................................................... 5-8
5.2
Configuring Ports.............................................................................................. 5-10
5.2.1
Changing Port Administrative States ....................................................... 5-11
5.2.2
Changing Port Speeds ............................................................................ 5-12
5.2.3
Changing Port Types ............................................................................... 5-13
5.2.4
I/O Stream Guard .................................................................................... 5-13
5.2.5
Device Scan ............................................................................................ 5-14
5.2.6
Changing Port Symbolic Name ............................................................... 5-14
5.3
Using the Extended Credits Wizard ................................................................. 5-14
5.4
Resetting a Port................................................................................................ 5-15
5.5
Testing Ports..................................................................................................... 5-16
5.6
Graphing Port Performance ............................................................................. 5-18
5.6.1
Starting SANsurfer Performance Viewer ................................................. 5-19
5.6.2
Exiting SANsurfer Performance Viewer................................................... 5-19
5.6.3
Saving and Opening Performance View Files ......................................... 5-21
5.6.4
Changing the Default Performance View File Encryption Key ................ 5-21
5.6.5
Setting SANsurfer Performance Viewer Preferences.............................. 5-22
5.6.6
Setting the Polling Frequency.................................................................. 5-22
5.6.7
Displaying Graphs for a Switch ............................................................... 5-23
5.6.7.1
Displaying Graphs for a Stack ........................................................ 5-23
5.6.7.2
Arranging Graphs in the Display..................................................... 5-24
5.6.7.3
Customizing Graphs ....................................................................... 5-24
5.6.7.4
Setting Global Graph Type ............................................................. 5-26
5.6.7.5
Rescaling a Selected Graph........................................................... 5-26
5.6.8
Printing Graphs........................................................................................ 5-26
5.6.9
Saving Graph Statistics to a File.............................................................. 5-26
Appendix A Command Line Interface
A.1
Logging On to a Switch ......................................................................................A-1
A.2
User Accounts ....................................................................................................A-2
A.3
Working with Switch Configurations ...................................................................A-2