3.Click the Ports button in the Physical column in the Navigation tab, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 56 Finding the Status of a Port

4.Under the Name column in the Ports table, click the port whose status you want to obtain.

5.On the Properties page, the status of the port is displayed in the right column. The status of the port can be online, off line, or unknown.

Table 43 Port Status Definitions

Status

Definition

 

 

Online

Port is physically installed with node connections

 

 

Offline

Port is physically installed, but without node

 

connections.

 

Brocade switches also display this status if the port

 

is not physically installed (Gigabit Interface

 

Converter (GIBIC) is not installed).

 

 

Not Installed (McDATA SWAPI connections

Port is not physically installed (Gigabit Interface

only)*

Converter (GIBIC) is not installed).

 

 

Unknown (McDATA SNMP connections

Port is not installed.

only)*

 

 

 

*An ES4500 switch displays its status differently when a port is not installed:

SWAPI connection - Unknown status

SNMP connection - Offline

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