Displaying the Status of a Port

Displaying Error Logs and Status

	There are two types of statistics you can view for a port:
	◆	software statistics
	◆	hardware statistics

Displaying Software	Software statistics for a port include information such as port state,
Statistics for a Port	number of interrupts, number of link failures, number of loss of
	synchronization warnings, and number of loss of signal warnings.
	To display the software statistics for a port:
	1.	Log in to the switch as the admin user.
	2.	At the command line, enter the following command:
		portShow portnumber
		where portnumber is the number of the port you want to view. A
		table of software statistics for the port displays.

	For more information on the portShow command, refer to the Departmental
	Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Reference Manual.


Displaying	Hardware statistics for a port include information such as number of
Hardware Statistics	frames received, number of frames sent, number of encoding errors
for a Port	received, and number of class 2 and 3 frames received.

To display the hardware statistics for a port:

1.Log in to the switch as the admin user.

2.At the command line, enter the following command: portStatsShow portnumber

where portnumber is the number of the port you want to view. A table of hardware statistics for the port displays.

For more information on the portStatsShow command, refer to the

Departmental Switch Model DS-16B2 Fabric OS Reference Manual.

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EMC DS-16B2 manual Displaying the Status of a Port, Statistics for a Port