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SANbox 5602 Switch Management
User’s Guide 0
Section 5 Managing Ports
5.1 Displaying Port Information................................................................................ 5-1
5.1.1 Monitoring Port Status............................................................................... 5-2
5.1.1.1 Displaying Port Types.......................................................................5-2
5.1.1.2 Displaying Port Operational States...................................................5-3
5.1.1.3 Displaying Port Speeds.................................................................... 5-3
5.1.1.4 Displaying Transceiver Media Status................................................5-4
5.1.2 Port Statistics Data Window...................................................................... 5-5
5.1.3 Port Information Data Window...................................................................5-8
5.2 Configuring Ports..............................................................................................5-10
5.2.1 Changing Port Administrative States....................................................... 5-11
5.2.2 Changing Port Speeds............................................................................ 5-12
5.2.3 Changing Port Types...............................................................................5-13
5.2.4 I/O Stream Guard.................................................................................... 5-13
5.2.5 Device Scan............................................................................................ 5-14
5.2.6 Changing Port Symbolic Name............................................................... 5-14
5.3 Using the Extended Credits Wizard .................................................................5-14
5.4 Resetting a Port................................................................................................5-15
5.5 Testing Ports.....................................................................................................5-16
5.6 Graphing Port Performance .............................................................................5-18
5.6.1 Starting SANsurfer Performance Viewer................................................. 5-19
5.6.2 Exiting SANsurfer Performance Viewer...................................................5-19
5.6.3 Saving and Opening Performance View Files......................................... 5-21
5.6.4 Changing the Default Performance View File Encryption Key................ 5-21
5.6.5 Setting SANsurfer Performance Viewer Preferences..............................5-22
5.6.6 Setting the Polling Frequency..................................................................5-22
5.6.7 Displaying Graphs for a Switch............................................................... 5-23
5.6.7.1 Displaying Graphs for a Stack........................................................ 5-23
5.6.7.2 Arranging Graphs in the Display.....................................................5-24
5.6.7.3 Customizing Graphs....................................................................... 5-24
5.6.7.4 Setting Global Graph Type............................................................. 5-26
5.6.7.5 Rescaling a Selected Graph........................................................... 5-26
5.6.8 Printing Graphs........................................................................................5-26
5.6.9 Saving Graph Statistics to a File..............................................................5-26
Appendix A Command Line Interface
A.1 Logging On to a Switch......................................................................................A-1
A.2 User Accounts....................................................................................................A-2
A.3 Working with Switch Configurations...................................................................A-2