Table Of Contents
Chassis Tasks
Viewing Cards on a Chassis
Viewing Card Summary Information
Viewing Card Properties
Viewing the Card Inventory
Configuring the Administrative Status of a Card
Configuring the LED Beacon Status of a Card
Resetting a Card
Viewing Internal Gateway Ports
Viewing Physical Ports on a Chassis
Viewing All Ports
Viewing Port Properties
Viewing Port Bridging Properties
Viewing Port Statistics
Viewing Port Small Form-Factor Pluggable
Viewing Port VSAN
Configuring Ports
Configuring a Port Name
Configuring the Administrative Status of a Port
Enabling or Disabling a Port
Configuring Autonegotiation on a Port
Configuring Port Speed
Clearing InfiniBand Port Counters
Configuring the Administrative Connection Type of a Port
Configuring the Interop Mode of a Port
Configuring the Distributed Services Timeout
Configuring the Error Detect Timeout
Configuring the Resource Allocation Time
Configuring the Hello Dead Interval
Configuring the Hello Interval
Configuring the Link State Ack Interval
Configuring the Administrative Oper Domain ID
Configuring the Port WWNN
Configuring Port VSAN
Viewing Power Supply Status
Viewing Power Supply Summary Information
Viewing Power Supply Properties
Viewing Fan Status
Viewing Fan Summary Information
Viewing Fan Properties
Viewing Temperature Sensor Status
Viewing the Backplane Information
Viewing Management Ports on a Chassis
Setting the Partition Key for the InfiniBand Management Port
Chassis Tasks
These topics describe the Chassis display tasks:
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Viewing Cards on a Chassis
•Viewing Internal Gateway Ports
•Viewing Physical Ports on a Chassis
•Viewing Power Supply Status
•Viewing Fan Status
•Viewing Temperature Sensor Status
•Viewing the Backplane Information
•Viewing Management Ports on a Chassis
•Setting the Partition Key for the InfiniBand Management Port
Viewing Cards on a Chassis
These topics describe how to view information about cards in the chassis, set the up/down administrative status of a card, configure the Beacon status of a card, and reset a card:
•Viewing Card Summary Information
•Viewing Card Properties
•Viewing the Card Inventory
•Configuring the Administrative Status of a Card
•Configuring the LED Beacon Status of a Card
•Resetting a Card
Viewing Card Summary Information
To view the cards on your chassis, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A table that includes all cards on the chassis appears in the View frame. Table 3-1 describes the fields in the Cards table.
Table 3-1 Cards Table Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Slot
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Number of the chassis slot in which the card resides.
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Type
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Type of the card.
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Current Status
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Displays up if the card can currently run traffic; otherwise, displays down.
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Operational State
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Displays the general condition of the interface card. The general condition may appear as any of the following:
•unknown
•normal
•bootFailed
•tooHot
•booting
•checkingBootImage
•wrongBootImage
•rebooting
•standby
•recoveryImage
A condition of unknown indicates an unsupported interface card. To address this condition, replace the card with a supported card.
The operational state of a card must appear as normal for the current status of the card to appear as up.
A wrongBootImage condition indicates that the active system image on the interface card does not match the active system image on the controller. All cards must run the same active system image as the controller card.
A bootFailed condition indicates that the active system image on the card was incompletely or incorrectly loaded. If the other interface cards come up successfully, reset the individual card. Otherwise, reboot your entire device.
The tooHot condition indicates that the card is overheating. Expand Chassis and select the Fans branch to see if your fans have failed.
The booting condition indicates that the card has not finished loading the necessary image data for the internal configuration.
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Boot Stage
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Boot Stage appears as one of the following:
•recovery
•ipl
•ppcboot
•fpga
•pic
•ib
•rootfs
•kernel
•exe
•done
•none
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Boot Status
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Boot Status may appear as any of the following:
•upgrading
•success
•failed
•badVersion
•badCrc
•memoryError
•outOfSpace
•programmingError
•hardwareError
•fileNotFound
•inProgress
•none
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Step 3 (Optional) Click Refresh to update the attributes in the display.
Viewing Card Properties
To view card properties, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A Cards table that includes all cards in the chassis appears. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the card whose properties you want to view.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Card Properties window opens. Table 3-2 describes the fields in the Card Properties window.
Table 3-2 Card Properties Window Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Slot ID
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Number of the chassis slot in which the card resides.
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Type
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Type of the card.
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Admin Status
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Displays the up and down radio buttons. Click a radio button, and then click Apply to change the administrative status and bring the port up or down.
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Current Status
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Displays up if the card can currently run traffic; otherwise, displays down.
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Operational State
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Displays the general condition of the interface card. The general condition may be any of the following:
•unknown
•normal
•wrong-image
•bootFailed
•tooHot
•booting
A condition of unknown indicates an unsupported interface card. To address this condition, replace the card with a supported card.
The operational state of a card must appear as normal for the current status of the card to appear as up.
A wrong-image condition indicates that the active system image on the interface card does not match the active system image on the controller. All cards must run the same active system image as the controller card to function.
A bootFailed condition indicates that the active system image on the card was incompletely or incorrectly loaded. If the other interface cards come up successfully, reset the individual card. Otherwise, reboot your entire device.
If your card overheats, the tooHot condition appears in the show card command output. Enter the show fan command to check if your fans have failed.
The booting condition indicates that the card has not finished loading necessary image data for internal configuration.
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Boot Stage
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Boot Stage appears as one of the following:
•recovery
•ipl
•ppcboot
•fpga
•pic
•ib
•rootfs
•kernel
•exe
•done
•none
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Boot Status field
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Boot Status may appear as any of the following:
•upgrading
•success
•failed
•badVersion
•badCrc
•memoryError
•outOfSpace
•programmingError
•hardwareError
•fileNotFound
•inProgress
•none
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Beacon Status
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Displays the LED beaconing status of the card. Click the on or off radio button to turn the card to the LED beaconing status. After the status is set, the LED beaconing button blinks.
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Serial Number
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Factory-assigned product serial number of the card.
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PCA Serial Number
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Printed circuit assembly (PCA) serial number of the card.
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PCA Assembly Number
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Printed circuit assembly (PCA) number of the card.
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FRU Number
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Field-replaceable unit (FRU) number of the card.
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Product Version ID
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The ID number of the version of the card.
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Action
(select cards only)
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Radio buttons list actions that you can apply to the card.
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Result
(select cards only)
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Result that occurs when you choose an action from the Action field and click Apply.
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Viewing the Card Inventory
To view the memory and image information on a card, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
The Cards table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the card whose inventory you want to view.
Step 4 Click Inventory.
The Card Inventory window opens. Table 3-3 describes the fields in this window.
Table 3-3 Card Inventory Window Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Slot ID
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Slot on the server switch in which the card resides.
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Used Memory
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Used memory on the card, in kilobytes.
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Free Memory
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Available memory on the device, in kilobytes.
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Used Disk Space a
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Used disk space on partition a, in kilobytes.
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Free Disk Space a
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Available disk space on partition a, in kilobytes.
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Used Disk Space b
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Used disk space on partition b, in kilobytes.
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Free Disk Space b
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Available disk space on partition b, in kilobytes.
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Current Image Source
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Image that the card runs on the active operating system.
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Image Source for Next Reboot
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Image that the card runs when you reboot.
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Last Image Source image a
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Displays the Image used, when the card was booted up.
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Image-a
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First image on partition a, stored on the card.
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Image-a
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Second image on partition a, stored on the card.
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Last Image Source image b
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Displays the Image used, when the card was booted up.
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Image-b
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First image on partition b, stored on the card.
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Image-b
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Second image on partition b, stored on the card.
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CPU Description
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Description of the CPU on the card.
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FPGA Firmware Revision
(select cards)
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Current FPGA firmware version that the card runs.
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IB Firmware Revision
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Version of InfiniBand firmware on the card.
For platforms designed with the InfiniScale III switch chip (7000 and 7008 platforms), the Chassis Manager displays the device ID and version number of the InfiniBand chip for each card. For platforms using the original InfiniScale switch chip (3001 and 3012 platforms), no parenthetical text appears. The Cisco SFS 3001 and Cisco SFS 3012 chassis run original InfiniScale switch chips. The Cisco SFS 7000 and Cisco SFS 7008 chassis run later versions.
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Card Uptime
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How long, in seconds, the card has been running.
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Close
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Closes the Card Inventory window.
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Help
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Opens the online help.
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Configuring the Administrative Status of a Card
With Chassis Manager, you can bring up or shut down any card on your chassis. To configure the administrative status of a card, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A table of the cards in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the card that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Card Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Admin Status field, click the up or down radio button, and then click Apply.
Configuring the LED Beacon Status of a Card
To configure the LED Beacon Status of a card on your chassis, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A table of the cards in the Chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each the table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the card whose LED Beacon Satus you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Card Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Beacon Status field, click the on or off radio button, and then click Apply.
Resetting a Card
To reset a card on your chassis, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A Cards table that includes all cards in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button to the left of the card that you want to reset.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Card Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Action field, click the reset radio button, and then click Apply.
Viewing Internal Gateway Ports
Each Fibre Channel gateway and Ethernet gateway uses two internal ports to pass traffic through your device.
Note Not all hardware platforms provide this option.
To view gateway port details, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Cards branch.
A Cards table that includes all cards in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button to the left of the card with the gateway (internal) ports that you want to view.
Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show Gateway Ports.
The Gateway Ports table opens in the View frame. For a description of the fields in the Gateway Ports table, see Table 3-4.
Table 3-4 Gateway Ports Table Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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GW Port
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Port number, in slot#/port# format.
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Name
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Port name.
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Type
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Port type.
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Viewing Physical Ports on a Chassis
These topics describe how to view ports on a chassis:
•Viewing All Ports
•Viewing Port Properties
•Viewing Port Bridging Properties
•Viewing Port Statistics
•Viewing Port Small Form-Factor Pluggable
•Viewing Port VSAN
Viewing All Ports
To view the physical ports on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table that includes all ports on the chassis appears in the View frame. Table 3-5 describes the fields in the Ports table.
Table 3-5 Ports Display Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Slot#/port# identifier of the port.
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Name
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User-configured port name.
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Type
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Displays the type of the port. Type names begin with fc to indicate Fibre Channel, en to indicate Ethernet, and ib to indicate InfiniBand.
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Admin Status
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Displays up when you bring up the port; otherwise, displays down.
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Oper Status
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Indicates whether or not the port is ready for use.
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MTU
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Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the port, in bytes.
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Step 3 (Optional) Click Refresh to update the attributes in the display.
Viewing Port Properties
To view port properties, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A Ports table that includes all ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the port whose properties you want to view.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens. Each type of port displays different properties in this window.
Note Available port types vary by hardware platform.
Table 3-6 describes the fields in the Port Properties window of an Ethernet port.
Table 3-6 Ethernet Port Properties Window Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Port number in slot#/port# notation.
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Name
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Port name that you can edit and apply to the port.
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Type
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Type of the port.
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Admin Status
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Configures the administrative status of the port with up and down radio buttons.
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Oper Status
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Indicates whether or not the port is ready for use.
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Auto Negotiation Supported
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Displays true if the port supports auto-negotiation.
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Auto Negotiation
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The Enable check box enables or disables auto-negotiation on the port.
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Set Port Speed
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Radio buttons that let you configure the speed of the port.
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Current Speed
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Displays the speed of the port.
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Set Port Duplex
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(Ethernet Gateway ports) Radio buttons configure duplex setting of the port.
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Current Duplex
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(Ethernet Gateway ports) Indicates whether the port runs in full duplex mode or half duplex mode.
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MTU field
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Displays the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the port in bytes.
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MAC Address
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(Ethernet Gateway ports) Flushes the address resolution protocol table.
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Last Changed On
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Time and date of the last time that the port was configured.
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Action
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(Ethernet Gateway ports) Flushes the address resolution protocol table when you choose the flushArp radio button, and then click Apply. Executes no action if you choose the none radio button and click Apply.
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Result
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(Ethernet Gateway ports) Displays result of the action in the Action field.
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Table 3-7 describes the fields in the Port Properties window of a Fibre Channel port.
Table 3-7 Fibre Channel Port Properties Window Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Port number in slot#/port# notation.
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Name
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Port name that you can edit and apply to the port.
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Type
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Displays the type of the port.
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Admin Status
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Up and down radio buttons that configure the administrative status of the port.
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Oper Status
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Displays up to indicate that the port is physically ready for use, otherwise, displays down.
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Auto Negotiation Supported
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Displays true if the port supports autonegotiation.
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Auto Negotiation
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The Enable check box enables or disables autonegotiation on the port.
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Set Port Speed
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Displays radio buttons to configure the port speed. The speeds available are 1G, 2G, and 4G.
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Current Speed
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Displays the speed of the port.
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Admin Connection Type
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Displays radio buttons to indicate the type of the administrative connection.
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Current Connection Type
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Type of connection that the server switch dynamically discovered for this port.
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MTU
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Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the port, in bytes.
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WWNN
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World-wide node name (WWNN) of your device.
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WWPN
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World-wide port name (WWPN) of the port.
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FC ID
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Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) identifier of the port.
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Last Changed On
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Time and date of the last time that a user configured the port.
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Principle Switch WWNN
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Displays a 64-bit WWNN of the principle Fibre Channel the port is associated to.
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Dist Services Timeout
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Displays the FC E Port d_s_tov (this value indicates the time the distributed services requester has to wait for a response) in milliseconds.
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Error Detect Timeout
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Displays the FC E Port e_d_tov (timeout value required to detect an error condition) in milliseconds.
All the VSAN switches are configured with the same value. If the administrative state of the VSAN is configured to active state, the Reset operation results in an error.
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Fabric Stability Timeout
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Displays the FC E Port f_s_tov ( timeout value required to ensure that the fabric stability is acheived during fabric configurarion) in milliseconds.
This value is common for all the VSANs.
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Receive Transmission Timeout
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Displays the FC E Port r_t_tov (timeout value required to recieve a transmission) in milliseconds.
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Resource Alloc Timeout
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Displays the FC E Port r_a_tov (timeout value required to determine the time for reuse of a NxPort resource) in milliseconds.
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Check Age
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Displays the FC E Port CheckAge in seconds.
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Hello Dead Interval
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Displays the FC HelloDeadInterval in seconds.
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Hello Interval
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Displays the FC HelloInterval in seconds.
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Link State Ack Interval
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Displays the FC E_Port l_t_tov in seconds.
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Link State Refresh Time
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Displays the timevalue interval required to refresh the link state.
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Maximum Age
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Displays the Fibre Channel E_Port m_a_tov in minutes.
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Admin Domain ID
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Displays the Fibre Channel E_Port configured Domain ID. The InteropMode determines the range.
Value zero is used if a DomainID is not configure in which case, the FC gateway tries to get the assigned OperDomainID from the fabric. If a non-zero value is configured, this value is used as a static DomainID.
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Oper Domain ID
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Displays the Fibre Channel port runtime ID.
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Interop Mode
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Displays the interoperability of the local switches on this VSAN. The modes available are as follows:
•Native
•BrocadeandMCData
•Brocadelessthan16ports
•Brocademorethan16ports
•MCDataNative
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Connection Error Code
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Displays the Fibre Channel connection error code.
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Port WWNN
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Displays the WWNN of the configured port.
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Table 3-8 describes the fields in the Port Properties window of an InfiniBand port.
Table 3-8 InfiniBand Port Properties Window Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Port number in slot#/port# notation.
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Name
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Port name that you can edit and apply to the port.
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Type
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Type of the port.
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Admin Status
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Up and down radio buttons configure the administrative status of the port.
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Oper Status
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Displays up to indicate that the port is physically ready for use; otherwise, displays down.
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Auto Negotiation Supported
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Displays true if the port supports autonegotiation.
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Auto Negotiation
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Enable check box to enable or disable autonegotiation on the port.
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Set Port Speed
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Drop-down menu configures the link capacity of the port according to its link width (1x, 4x, or 12x) and its lane speed (SDR or DDR). Valid options are 1x-SDR (2.5 Gbps), 4x-SDR (10 Gbps), 12x-SDR (30 Gbps), 1x-DDR (5 Gbps), 4x-DDR (20 Gbps), 12x-DDR (60 Gbps).
Note For an InfiniBand port connected with an SDR cable or any cable longer than 8 feet, you must manually configure the port to support SDR only.
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Current Speed
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Link capacity of the port.
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Physical State
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Physical state of the port.
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Clear Counters
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Check box allows you to clear the counters for the InfiniBand port.
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MTU
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Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the port in bytes.
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Last Changed On
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Time and date of the last time that a user configured the port.
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Viewing Port Bridging Properties
To view the bridge to which a port belongs, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A Ports table appears that includes all ports in the chassis that appear in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the port whose bridging properties you want to view.
Step 4 Choose Show Bridging from the Show Options drop-down menu.
The Port Bridging table appears in the View frame. Table 3-9 describes the fields in this table.
Table 3-9 Port Bridging Table Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Port that you chose from the Ports table.
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Vlan
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Virtual LAN (VLAN) of the bridge to which the port belongs.
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Bridge ID
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Bridge ID of the bridge to which the port belongs.
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Viewing Port Statistics
To view port statistics, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the port whose statistics you want to view.
Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show Port Statistics.
The Port Statistics display appears in the View frame. Table 3-10 describes the fields in this display.
Table 3-10 Port Statistics Display Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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Port
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Port number, as assigned by the subnet manager.
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Name
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Administratively assigned port name.
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In Octets
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Cumulative number of octets that arrived at the port, including framing characters.
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In Unicast Packets
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Cumulative number of incoming packets destined for a single port.
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In Multicast Packets
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Cumulative number of incoming packets destined for the ports of a multicast group.
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In Broadcast Packets
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Cumulative number of incoming packets destined for all ports on the fabric.
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In Discards
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Cumulative number of inbound packets that the port discarded for a reason other than a packet error (lack of buffer space).
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In Errors
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Number of inbound packets with errors that the port discarded.
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In Unknown Protocols
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For packet-oriented interfaces, the number of packets received through the interface that were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol. For character-oriented or fixed-length interfaces that support protocol multiplexing, the number of transmission units received through the interface that were discarded because of an unknown or unsupported protocol. For any interface that does not support protocol multiplexing, this counter is always 0.
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Out Octets
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Total number of octets transmitted out of the interface, including framing characters.
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Out Unicast Packets
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Total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested be transmitted and were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sublayer, including those packets that were discarded or not sent.
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Out Multicast Packets
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Total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested be transmitted and were addressed to a multicast address at this sublayer, including those packets that were discarded or not sent. For a MAC layer protocol, this includes both Group and Functional addresses.
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Out Broadcast Packets
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Total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested to be transmitted and were addressed to a broadcast address at this sublayer, including those packets that were discarded or not sent.
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Out Discards
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Number of outbound packets that were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their transmission. One possible reason for discarding such a packet could be to free buffer space.
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Out Errors
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For packet-oriented interfaces, the number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors. For character-oriented or fixed-length interfaces, the number of outbound transmission units that could not be transmitted because of errors.
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Viewing Port Small Form-Factor Pluggable
To view the Port Small Form-Factor Pluggable(SFP) present in a Fibre Channel port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the port whose statistics you want to view.
Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show SFP.
Step 5 The Show SFP display appears in the View frame. Table 3-11 describes the fields in this play.
Table 3-11 SFP Display Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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State
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State of the SFP on a Fibre Channel port
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Product Id
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Interger-value identifier of the SCSI product
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Vendor Id
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Interger-value identifier of the SCSI vendor
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Vendor Serial Number
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SFP vendor serial number
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CLEI Code
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SFP CLEI code
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Cisco Part Number
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CFP Cisco part number
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VID
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SFP VID
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Note The Show SFP option is valid only for the Fibre Channel ports.
Viewing Port VSAN
To view the VSAN present on a Fibre Channel port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the port whose VSAN you want to view.
Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show VSAN.
The Show VSAN display appears in the View frame. Table 3-12 describes the fields in this display.
Table 3-12 VSAN Display Field Descriptions
Field
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Description
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VSAN ID
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Interger-value identifier of the VSAN of a Fibre Channel. The values ranges from 1to 4093.
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Current VSAN ID
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Interger-value identifier of the current VSAN assigned to the Fibre Channel.
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Trunk Mode
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The available modes of the trunk group for a Fibre Channel. The modes available are nonTrunk, trunk and auto.
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Current Trunk Mode
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The current mode of the trunk group assigned to the Fibre Channel.
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Allowed VSANs
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The number of VSANs which can be configured to a Fibre Channel.
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Active VSANs
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The number of active VSANs currently configured to the Fibre Channel.
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Up VSANs
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The number of VSANs with an activated (up) status.
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Configuring Ports
Chassis Manager provides different configuration options for each type of port. The options available to each port will appear in the Port Properties window.
These topics describe how to configure port properties:
•Configuring a Port Name
•Configuring the Administrative Status of a Card
•Enabling or Disabling a Port
•Configuring Autonegotiation on a Port
•Configuring Port Speed
•Clearing InfiniBand Port Counters
•Configuring the Administrative Connection Type of a Port
•Configuring the Interop Mode of a Port
•Configuring the Distributed Services Timeout
•Configuring the Error Detect Timeout
•Configuring the Resource Allocation Time
•Configuring the Hello Dead Interval
•Configuring the Hello Interval
•Configuring the Link State Ack Interval
•Configuring the Administrative Oper Domain ID
•Configuring the Port WWNN
•Configuring Port VSAN
Configuring a Port Name
To configure the administrative name of a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the port to which you want to assign a name.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Name field of the Port Properties window, enter a name for the port, and then click Apply.
Step 6 Click Close to close the Port Properties window.
Configuring the Administrative Status of a Port
To configure the administrative status of a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
In the Admin Status field, click the up or down radio button, and then click Apply.
Step 5 Click Close to close the Port Properties window.
Enabling or Disabling a Port
To enable or disable a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand the Chassis icon in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the port you want to enable or disable.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Admin Status field of the Port Properties window, click the up (enable) or down (disable) radio button, and then click Apply.
Step 6 Click Close to close the Port Properties window.
Configuring Autonegotiation on a Port
To enable or disable auto-negotiation on a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the port for which you want to enable or disable autonegotiation.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Auto Negotiation field of the Port Properties window, check the Enable check box to enable it, or uncheck the check box to disable it, and then click Apply.
Step 6 Click Close to close the Port Properties window.
Configuring Port Speed
Note You must disable autonegotiation before configuring the port speed.
For an InfiniBand port connected with an SDR cable or any cable longer than 8 feet, you must manually configure the port to support SDR only.
To configure the speed of a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the port for which you want to configure the speed.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Auto Negotiation field, uncheck the Enable check box (if necessary) to disable autonegotiation.
Step 6 In the Set Port Speed field of the Port Properties window, select a speed as follows:
•For an Ethernet or Fibre Channel port, click a radio button to select a speed.
•For an InfiniBand port, select a speed from the drop-down menu.
Step 7 Click Apply.
Step 8 Click Close to close the Port Properties window.
Clearing InfiniBand Port Counters
To clear InfiniBand port counters, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame, and select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 2 Click the radio button of the port for which you want to clear the counters.
Step 3 Click Properties.
The Port Properties window opens.
Step 4 Check the Clear Counters check box.
Step 5 Click Apply, and then click Close.
See Table 3-10 for descriptions of the counters cleared by this procedure.
Configuring the Administrative Connection Type of a Port
To configure the administrative connection type for a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Admin Connection Type field, click the radio button to select the type of connection that you want to configure. The available options are as follow:
•NLPort
•BPort
•FPort
•EPort
•EorFPort
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Interop Mode of a Port
To configure the Interop Mode of a port, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 In the Interop Mode field, click the radio button to select the type of mode you want to configure. The available options are as follow:
•Native
•Brocadeand MCData
•Brocadelessthan16Ports
•Brocademorethan16Ports
•MCDataNative
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Distributed Services Timeout
To configure the distributed services timeout, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (5000-100000) in the Dist Services Timeout field to configure the time required, in milliseconds, by the requester to wait for a response.
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Error Detect Timeout
To configure the error detect timeout, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (1000-100000) in the Error Detect Timeout field to configure the time required, in milliseconds, to detect an error condition.
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Resource Allocation Time
To configure the resource allocation timeout, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (5000-100000) in the Resource Alloc Timeout field to configure the time required, in millliseconds, to determine the resuse of a N x Port resource.
Step 6 Click Apply, and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Hello Dead Interval
To configure the hello dead interval, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (2-65535) in the Hello Dead Interval field to configure the time required (in seconds).
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Hello Interval
To configure the hello interval, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (2-65535) in the Hello Interval field to configure the time required (in seconds).
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Link State Ack Interval
To configure the Link State Ack Interval, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger (1-65535 ) in the Link State Ack Interval field to configure the time required (in seconds).
Step 6 Click Apply and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Administrative Oper Domain ID
To configure the administrative oper domain ID, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter an interger ( ) in the Admin Oper Domain ID to configure the admin oper domain ID. If a nonzero value is configured, this value is used as a static Domain ID. Values from 0-255 can be entered.
Step 6 Click Apply, and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring the Port WWNN
To configure the World-wide node name (WWNN), follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
A table of the Ports in the chassis appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of a Fibre Channel port that you want to configure.
Step 4 Click Properties.
A Port Properties window opens.
Step 5 Enter the value for the WWNN in the Port WWNN field to configure the name of the Port WWNN.
Step 6 Click Apply, and then click Close to close the Properties window.
Configuring Port VSAN
To configure the VSANs present on the Fibre Channel ports, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Ports branch.
The Ports table appears in the View frame. A radio button appears to the left of each table entry.
Step 3 Click the radio button of the Fibre Channel port you want to configure.
Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show VSAN.
The Port VSAN window opens, in the view frame.
Step 5 (Optional) Enter an interger-value identifier value in the VSAN ID field.
Step 6 Click the radio button to select the trunk mode in the Trunk Mode field. The available options are nonTrunk, Trunk, and auto.
Step 7 Enter the number of VSANs allowed on the selected Port, and then click Apply.
Viewing Power Supply Status
These topics describe how to view information about power supplies:
•Viewing Power Supply Summary Information
•Viewing Power Supply Properties
Viewing Power Supply Summary Information
To view the status of the power supplies on your device, follow these steps:
Note Not all hardware platforms include power supply information. In such cases, the Power Supplies branch does not appear.
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Power Supplies branch.
The Power Supplies table appears in the View frame. Table 3-13 describes the fields in the Power Supplies table.
Table 3-13 Power Supply Table Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
PS ID
|
Numeric identifier of the power supply. For more information about the power supplies in your device, see the hardware installation guide for your server switch.
|
Type
|
Type of power (AC or DC).
|
Admin Status
|
Displays up if you have activated your power supply or down (on select chassis) if you have disabled your power supply.
|
Current Status
|
Displays up to indicate that your power supply functions and currently supplies power to your device. Displays down for faulty power supplies.
|
Utilization
|
Percentage of total power supply resources in use.
|
Voltage
|
Voltage of the power supply.
|
Viewing Power Supply Properties
To view the properties of the power supplies on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Power Supplies branch.
The Power Supplies table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the power supply with properties that you want to view.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Power Supply Properties window opens. Table 3-14 describes the fields in the Power Supplies Properties table.
Table 3-14 Power Supply Property Window Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
PS ID
|
Numeric identifier of the power supply. For more information about the power supplies in your device, see the hardware installation guide for your server switch.
|
Type
|
Type of power (AC or DC).
|
Current Status
|
Displays up to indicate that your power supply functions and currently supplies power to your device. Displays down for faulty power supplies.
|
Utilization
|
Percentage of total power supply resources in use.
|
Voltage
|
Voltage of the power supply.
|
Product Serial Num
|
Product serial number of the power supply.
|
PCA Serial Num
|
PCA serial number of the power supply.
|
PCA Assembly Num
|
PCA assembly number of the power supply.
|
FRU Num
|
FRU number of the power supply.
|
Product Version ID
|
Version of the power supply.
|
Viewing Fan Status
These topics describe how to view the fan status:
•Viewing Fan Summary Information
•Viewing Fan Properties
Viewing Fan Summary Information
To view the status of the fans on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Fans branch.
The Fans table appears in the View frame. Table 3-15 describes the fields in the Fans table.
Table 3-15 Fan Table Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Fan ID
|
Numeric identifier of the fan or blower module. For more information, see the hardware installation guide for your server switch.
|
Current Status
|
Displays up if the fan functions properly; otherwise, displays down.
|
Speed (%)
|
Speed of the fan in percentage of maximum speed.
|
Viewing Fan Properties
To view the properties of the fans on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Fans branch.
The Fans table appears in the View frame.
Step 3 Click the radio button next to the fan whose properties you want to view.
Step 4 Click Properties.
The Fan Properties window opens in the View frame. Table 3-16 describes the fields in the Fan Properties table.
Table 3-16 Fan Properties Window Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Fan ID
|
Numeric identifier of the fan. For more detail, see the fan documentation.
|
Current Status
|
Displays up if the fan functions properly; otherwise, displays down.
|
Speed
|
Speed of the fan in the percentage of maximum speed.
|
Product Serial Num
|
Product serial number of the fan.
|
PCA Serial Num
|
PCA serial number of the fan.
|
PCA Assembly Num
|
PCA assembly number of the fan.
|
FRU Num
|
FRU number of the fan.
|
Product Version ID
|
The ID number of the version of the fan.
|
Viewing Temperature Sensor Status
To view the status of the power supplies on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Sensors branch.
The Sensors table appears in the View frame. Table 3-17 describes the fields in the Sensors table.
Table 3-17 Sensors Table Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Slot ID
|
Numeric identifier of the slot in which the temperature sensor resides. For more information on the slots in your device, see your hardware documentation.
|
Sensor ID
|
Displays the numeric identifier of the temperature sensor.
|
Current Status
|
Displays up for functional sensors and down for faulty sensors.
|
Operational Code (Oper Code)
|
Operational code of the sensor. This field displays normal, tempAlert, currAlert, or voltAlert.
|
Current Temp (select chassis)
|
Displays the curent temperature of the chassis.
|
Alarm Temp (select chassis)
|
Displays the Chassis temperature that triggers an alarm.
|
Shutdown Temp (select chassis)
|
Displays the Chassis temperature that triggers a shutdown.
|
Viewing the Backplane Information
To view backplane information, follow these steps:
Note This feature is not available on all hardware platforms.
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Select the Backplane branch.
The Backplane display appears in the View frame. Table 3-18 describes the fields in this display.
Table 3-18 Backplane Display Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Serial Number
|
Factory-assigned product serial number.
|
PCA Serial Number
|
Printed circuit assembly (PCA) serial number.
|
PCA Assembly Number
|
Printed circuit assembly (PCA) assembly number.
|
FRU Num
|
Field-replaceable unit (FRU) number.
|
Chassis ID
|
GUID of the chassis.
|
Base MAC Address
|
24-bit base MAC address of this chassis.
|
Chassis GUID
|
GUID of the chassis.
|
Product Version ID
|
Version of the backplane.
|
Viewing Management Ports on a Chassis
To view the configurations of management ports on your device, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame.
Step 2 Expand Management Ports in the Tree frame.
Step 3 Expand either the Serial, Ethernet, or InfiniBand branch to view the attributes of that management port. See Table 3-19, Table 3-20, and Table 3-21.
Table 3-19 describes the fields in the Serial Management Ports display.
Table 3-19 Serial Management Ports Display Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Baud Rate
|
Transmission speed to which you must configure your serial connection.
|
Data Bits
|
Data bits value to which you must configure your serial connection.
|
Stop Bits
|
Stop bits setting to which you must configure your serial connection.
|
Parity
|
Parity setting to which you must configure your serial connection.
|
Table 3-20 describes the fields in the Ethernet Management Ports display.
Table 3-20 Ethernet Management Ports Display Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
MAC Address
|
Media access control (MAC) address of the Ethernet Management Port.
|
Enable Auto Negotiation
|
Displays true if you have enabled auto-negotiation and false if you have disabled auto-negotiation.
|
Administrative Port Status
|
Displays down if you have shut down the port and up if you brought up the port.
|
Current Port Status
|
Displays up if the port runs successfully and down if the port cannot run traffic for physical, logical, or administrative reasons.
|
IP Address
|
IP address of the Ethernet Management port.
|
Net Mask
|
Subnet mask of the Ethernet Management port.
|
Gateway
|
Default IP gateway of the Ethernet Management port.
|
Address Option
|
Configured Management Port address option.
|
Table 3-21 describes the fields in the InfiniBand Management Ports display.
Table 3-21 InfiniBand Management Ports Display Field Descriptions
Field
|
Description
|
Administrative Port Status
|
Displays down if you have shut down the port and up if you brought up the port.
|
Current Port Status
|
Displays up if the port runs successfully and down if the port cannot run traffic for physical, logical, or administrative reasons.
|
IP Address
|
IP address of the InfiniBand Management port.
|
Net Mask
|
Subnet mask of the InfiniBand Management port.
|
Gateway
|
Default IP gateway of the InfiniBand Management port.
|
Address Option
|
Address option of the InfiniBand Management port.
|
MTU
|
Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the InfiniBand Management port.
|
PKey
|
Partition used by the InfiniBand Management port. See the "Setting the Partition Key for the InfiniBand Management Port" section.
|
Setting the Partition Key for the InfiniBand Management Port
In case IPoIB multicast joins are disabled on the default partition, you can change the in-band IPoIB management partition to a partition that allows IPoIB multicast joins.
To change the in-band IPoIB management partition, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Chassis in the Tree frame, and then expand Management Ports.
Step 2 Select InfiniBand.
The InfiniBand Management Ports window appears.
Step 3 In the PKey field, enter the partition key that you want to use for the in-band IPoIB partition.
Step 4 Click Apply.
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