Port card menu, Port menu – HP StorageWorks 2.140 Director Switch User Manual
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NOTE:
Note that your director model and firmware may not allow variable data speed settings.
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Threshold alert—If a threshold alert exists for the port, an alert indicator (yellow triangle) is
displayed by the Threshold Alert field, and the configured name for the last alert received is
displayed in the field.
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Zoning enforcement—For directors, this field displays Soft zoning for ports using soft
zoning and Hard zoning for ports using hard zoning.
Port Card menu
While in the Port Card view, right-click the card away from a port connector to display a pop-up
menu of port card functions.
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Block All Ports—Click this option to display the Block All Ports dialog box. Click Yes to block all
ports on the selected card or click No to cancel.
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Unblock All Ports—Click this option to display the Unblock All Ports dialog box. Click Yes to
unblock all ports on the selected card or No to cancel.
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Diagnostics—Click this option to display the Port Diagnostics dialog box. Use this dialog box to
run internal loopback and external loopback tests on any port or all ports on the port card. For
instructions on using these diagnostics, see the HP StorageWorks Director 2/64 service guide
for the Director 2/64 and the HP StorageWorks Director 2/140 service guide for the Director
2/140.
Port menu
While in the Port Card view, right-click any port to display the following menu options:
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Port Properties—Display the Port Properties dialog box, which displays information about the
port. See ”
” on page 62 for more information.
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Node Properties—Click this option to display the Node Properties dialog box. Note that if a
node is not logged into the port, a message is displayed indicating that node information is not
available. For details on information that is displayed in this dialog box, see ”
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Port Technology—Click this option on the Port menu to display the Port Technology dialog box.
You can also display this dialog box by choosing Port Technology from the right-click menu in
the Port List view. This dialog box displays the following information:
• Port number—The physical port number.
• Connector type—Always LC.
• Transceiver type—Longwave laser LC or shortwave laser LC.
• Distance—General distance range for port transmission. This can be either short to long
distances for the longwave laser LC transceiver or short distances for the shortwave laser LC
transceivers.
• Media—The Fibre Channel mode and optic size. For the longwave laser LC transceiver, this
would be singlemode 9-micron. For the shortwave laser LC transceiver, this would be
multimode 50-micron or 62.5-micron.