Ports screen details
Screen elements Description
Filters
Arrays Displays all the arrays that PA monitors.
Status Displays all ports by status.
Port Name Displays a list of ports by name.
Master pane details
Status icon Displays the icon indicating the current status for an individual
port. The Ports component status is based on the threshold
values set for the Average Frontend IOPS and the Average
Frontend MBPS metrics.
Port Name Displays the port ID.
Port Type Displays the port type. The port types include Fibre(Target),
Fibre(Initiator), Fibre(External), Fibre(RCU Target),
Fibre(Continuous Access Target), Fibre(Continuous Access
Initiator), Fibre(External LUN Initiator), and so on.
IOPS Displays the average I/Os for the selected port.
MBPS Displays the average MB/s for the selected port.
Detail pane > Chart View: Metrics
Default metric
Yes/No
Maximum Port IO – Frontend Yes
Minimum Port IO – Frontend No
Average Port IO –Frontend Yes
Port Total IO - Frontend Yes (available for XP7 arrays from microcode version
80-05-26-00/00 onwards)
Port Read IO - Frontend No (available for XP7 arrays from microcode version
80-05-26-00/00 onwards)
Port Write IO - Frontend No (available for XP7 arrays from microcode version
80-05-26-00/00 onwards)
Maximum Port MB – Frontend Yes
Minimum Port MB – Frontend No
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