4
Using the Hardware View
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Monitoring and Managing the Switch
◆ Enable Beaconing — Click this to make the amber LED by the
port blink on the actual switch and the amber indicator blink for
the port in the Hardware view. This enables users to locate the
unit where the port is located. When a blinking amber LED
indicator appears by a port, an attention indicator appears below
the port's connector in the Hardware view.
◆ Port Diagnostics — This option is used by service personnel to
run internal and external loopback tests on the port.
◆ Channel Wrap (S/390 mode only) — Allows a channel wrap test
to be initiated from an attached host or device. In this test, frames
are sent to the switch port, and the switch echos the frames to the
sending device to test the channel. The switch remains in channel
wrap mode until the option is disabled. While in channel wrap
mode, the port can accept only echo commands from the host and
will appear to be blocked to all other communication.
Click the check box to add/remove a checkmark and
enable/disable channel wrap.
◆ Swap Ports (S/390 mode only) — Allows you to swap addresses
between ports. For details, refer to Swapping Ports on page 7-3.
◆ Clear Link Incident Alert(s) — Click this to clear the attention
indicators on the Hardware view, the Port List view, and the
Performance view. In addition, the procedure clears the alert
description in the Port Properties window. If there are no link
incident alerts set for a port, no actions occur. Although you can
manually clear link incidents, they may also be cleared by actions
outside of the user interface, such as when rebooting the
Connectrix service processor.
◆ Reset Port — Click to display a confirmation window; then click
Yes to reset the port. If a switch is attached to the port and is on
line, this operation sends a link reset to the attached switch,
otherwise this action disables port beaconing for the port, and if
the port is in a failed state, such as after failing a loopback test, the
reset restores the port to an operational state, clearing the service
required (amber) LED. The reset does not affect other ports in the
switch.
◆ Port Binding — Allows you to enable or disable port binding. For
details, refer to Configuring Ports on page 5-11.
◆ Clear Threshold Alert(s) — Allows you to clear threshold alerts.
Select the appropriate option to clear alerts for the selected port
only or all ports on the switch. This clears all attention indicators
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