HP PROCURVE 6120 User Manual

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Port Status and Configuration
Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Menu: Port Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
CLI: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . 10-8
Viewing Port Status and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
Customizing the Show Interfaces Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
Note on Using Pattern Matching with the “Show Interfaces Custom”
Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13
Viewing Port Utilization Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13
Viewing Transceiver Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14
Enabling or Disabling Ports and Configuring Port Mode . . . . . . . . . 10-15
Enabling or Disabling Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17
Configuring a Broadcast Limit on the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-18
Configuring ProCurve Auto-MDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-19
Web: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . 10-22
Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-23
Configuring and Operating Rules for Friendly Port Names . . . . . . . 10-23
Configuring Friendly Port Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-24
Displaying Friendly Port Names with Other Port Data . . . . . . . . . . 10-25
Configuring Transceivers and Modules That Haven’t
Been Inserted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-29
Transceivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-29
Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-29
Clearing the Module Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-29
Operating Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-30
Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-31

HP PROCURVE 6120 Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	PROCURVE 6120
Category	Switch
Language	English