Chapter 6. Port Access
The Port Selection Sidebar
All switches and their ports – including cascaded switches and their ports – are listed in a tree structure in the Sidebar at the left of the screen:
The Port Selection Tree
Users are only allowed to see the switches and ports that they have access permission for.
Ports and child switches can be nested under their parent switches. Click the + in front of a switch to expand the tree and see the ports nested underneath it. Click the - to collapse the tree and hide the nested ports.
A port’s ID number is displayed in brackets next to the port icon. For convenience the ports can be named (see Port Naming, page 88, for details).
Switches and ports that are on line have their monitor screen icons lit green; the monitor screens are gray for devices and ports that are offline.
To access a port, double click its icon. Port operation details are discussed in Chapter 11, Port Operation.
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