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Selecting ports, Setting quicktools preferences – HP 8.20q Fibre Channel Switch User Manual

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Selecting ports

Ports are selectable and serve as access points for other displays and menus. You select ports to display

information about them in the data window or to modify them. Context-sensitive popup menus are

displayed when you right-click the faceplate image or on a port icon. See ”

Managing ports

” on page 89

for detailed port information.
Selected ports in the faceplate display are outlined in white. You can select ports in the following ways:

To select a port, click the port.

To select all ports, right-click on the faceplate image, and select Select All Ports from the popup menu.

To select a range of consecutive ports, click a port, press and hold down the Shift key, and then click

the last port in the desired range. The web applet selects both end ports and all ports in between the

end ports.

NOTE:

When using the Shift key to select a range of ports, the first port you click in the range is the

"anchor" selection. Subsequent ranges are based on this anchor selection. For example, when you click

port 4 and port 9 respectively, port 4 becomes the anchor selection. The next range will include all ports

between port 4 and the next port you select.

To select several non-consecutive ports, press and hold down the Control key while clicking each port.

To deselect ports in a group of selected ports, press and hold down the Control key while clicking each

port.

To cancel a selection, press and hold down the Control key and select it again.

Setting QuickTools preferences

Using the preferences settings, you can:

Change the location of the working directory in which to save files.

Change the location of the browser used to view the online Help.

Select the Display Dialog When Making Non-secure Connections option. If this option is enabled, the

Non-secure Connections Check dialog box is displayed when you attempt to open a non-secure fabric

and you have the option of opening the non-secure fabric. If this option is disabled, you cannot open a

fabric that has a non-secure connection.

Enable (default) or disable the Event Browser. See ”

Event Browser

” on page 28 for more information. If

the Event Browser is enabled using the Preferences dialog box (

Figure 5

), the next time QuickTools is

started all events will be displayed. If the Event Browser is disabled when QuickTools is started and

enabled later, only those events from the time the Event Browser was enabled and forward will be

displayed.

Choose the default port view when opening the faceplate display. You can set the faceplate to reflect

the current port type (default), port speed, port operational state, or port transceiver media. Regardless

of the default port view you choose, you can change the port view in the faceplate display by opening

the View menu and selecting a different port view option. See the corresponding subsection for more

information:

Port types

” on page 98

Port operational states

” on page 97

Port speeds

” on page 99

Port transceiver media status

” on page 99