Administrator Guide

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Chapter
5
Managing Ports
In this chapter
•Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
•Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
•Assigning a name to a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
•Port beaconing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
•Enabling and disabling a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
•Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
•Configuring NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
•Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
•Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
•Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
•Configuring ALPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
•Configuring port octet speed combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
•Configuring CSCTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
•Configuring compression and encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
•Forward Error Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
•Inband Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
•GigE port modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Port management overview
This chapter describes how to manage FC and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports. Refer to “Viewing
EX-Ports” on page 134 for information on how to view and configure EX-Ports.
The Port Admin tab is refreshed automatically every sixty seconds and is refreshed immediately
when you make any port changes through Web Tools.
To manage ports, you must be logged in with the role of switchadmin, admin, basicswitchadmin,
operator, or fabric admin. If you are logged in with a user, securityadmin, or zoneadmin role, you
can only view the port information.
For information about creating unique user account roles, refer to “User-defined accounts” on
page 163.