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3. Click the Ports button in the Physical column in the Navigation tab, as shown in the following
figure.
Figure 56 Finding the Status of a Port
4. Under the Name column in the Ports table, click the port whose status you want to obtain.
5. On the Properties page, the status of the port is displayed in the right column.
The status of the port can be online, off line, or unknown.
*An ES4500 switch displays its status differently when a port is not installed:
• SWAPI connection - Unknown status
• SNMP connection - Offline
Table 43 Port Status Definitions
Status Definition
Online Port is physically installed with node connections
Offline Port is physically installed, but without node
connections.
Brocade switches also display this status if the port
is not physically installed (Gigabit Interface
Converter (GIBIC) is not installed).
Not Installed (McDATA SWAPI connections
only)*
Port is not physically installed (Gigabit Interface
Converter (GIBIC) is not installed).
Unknown (McDATA SNMP connections
only)*
Port is not installed.