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Viewing system fibre channel ports, List pane – HP 3PAR Operating System Software User Manual

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A Summary tab is displayed for FCoE-configured ports. The information displayed on this tab is
identical to that displayed on the FC tab:

“Fibre Channel Summary Tab” (page 41)

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Viewing System Fibre Channel Ports

To view system Fibre Channel port information:
1.

Navigate to the Ports screen.

2.

In the Management Window, click the Fibre Channel tab.

The Fibre Channel tab is divided into a list pane and a detail pane. The list pane displays a summary
of all Fibre Channel ports in the system. The detail pane displays detailed information about a
single port selected from the list pane.

List Pane

The list pane can be filtered to display Fibre Channel Summary and Settings information.

When Summary is selected, the following information is displayed:

Description

Column

The port location in Node:Slot:Port format.

Position

World Wide Name of the connected device.

WWN

The state of the port. See

“System and Component Status Icons” (page 506)

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State

Port firmware mode setting. Ports in Initiator mode are connected to drive cages and
ports in Target mode export to hosts. Suspended mode is for target ports that have not
yet been initialized by the system (rare). Peer mode is for Ethernet ports.

Mode

Type of connection (Private Loop, Public Loop, or Point-Point).

Topology

Rate that data can be transferred over the port (1 Gbps, 2 Gbps or 4 Gbps). When
there is no specified value, no connection exists.

Rate

Identifies which Fibre Channel classes of service are enabled (2, 3, or 2/3). 2/3
indicates that both Class 2 and Class 3 are enabled.

Class

Type of device that the port is connected to. Free, Disk, Host, Peer, or InServ.

Connected Device Type

Name of device that the port is connected to, for example, host1, cage0.

Connected Device

Indicates whether port mode change from initiator to target or vice versa is Allowed or
Prohibited. This setting is configured using the HP 3PAR CLI command controlport.

Mode Change

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