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

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Summary, Sessions, and Host tabs are displayed for iSCSI-configured ports. The information on
these tabs is identical to that displayed on corresponding tabs for iSCSI ports:

“iSCSI Port Summary”

(page 46)

,

“Sessions Tab” (page 47)

, and

“Hosts Tab” (page 47)

.

Viewing System Fibre Channel Ports

To view system fibre channel port information:
1.

Access 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” (page 37)

“Detail Pane” (page 38)

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 407)

.

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

Viewing System Ports

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