HP 3PAR Management Console 4.5.1 Software User Guide

The SAS screen can be filtered by Summary and Settings information.
Summary Information
The SAS summary screen is divided into a list pane and a detail pane. The list pane displays a
summary of all SASs in the system. The detail pane displays detailed information about a single
SAS selected from the list pane.
The list pane provides the following information:
DescriptionColumn
The position of the port (in Node:Slot:Port format) in which the SAS is installed.Position
The World Wide Name of the server attached storage.WWN
The current state of the SAS.State
Port firmware mode setting—Initiator, Target, Peer, or Suspended. Ports in Initiator
mode are connected to drive cages and ports in Target mode export to hosts.
Mode
Suspended mode is for target ports that have not yet been initialized by the system
(rare). Peer mode is for Ethernet ports.
Type of connection (Private Loop, Public Loop, or Point-Point).Topology
Rate that data can be transferred over the port (1 Gbps, 2 Gbps or 4 Gbps).
When there is no specified value, no connection exists.
Rate
Type of device that the port is connected to. Free, Disk, Host, Peer, RC, or InServ.Connected Device Type
Name of device that the port is connected to, for example, host1, cage0.Connected Device
Indicates whether port mode change from initiator to target or vice versa is Allowed
or Prohibited.
Mode Change
The detail pane provides a “Summary Tab” (page 57), and if the connected device type is disk,
it also displays a “Physical Disks Tab” (page 57).
56 Managing Ports