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Monitoring and managing the director84
Port operational states
Table 5 describes the port operational states and the LED and attention indicators that display in the
Hardware view and Port List view.
Table 5 Port states and indicators
Port Indicators
Port State Green Amber Alert
indicator
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Description
Active Blinking Off The port is actively exchanging frames.
Beaconing Off or On Blink Yellow
Triangle
The port is beaconing. The amber port LED
blinks once every two seconds to enable users
to find a specific port. Enable beaconing
through the port’s menu on the Port Card view,
Port List view, or Performance view.
Beaconing
and Active
Blinking Blinking The port is set to beacon mode using a
management interface request and is actively
exchanging frames.
Beaconing
or Diagnostic
Off Blinking The port is set to beacon mode using a
management interface request or is running
diagnostics.
On Blinking The port is set to beacon mode using a
management interface request and is active
with the attached node (exchanging idles, but
not necessarily logged into the switch or
director) or is running loop back diagnostics.
Degraded
and Active
Blinking On The port is operating in a degraded mode and
is actively exchanging frames.
Degraded
and Idle
On Off The port is operating in a degraded mode but
is still active with the attached node
(exchanging idles, but not necessarily logged
into the switch or director).
Degraded or
failed
Off On The port is operating in a degraded mode or
has failed and requires service.
Idle On Off The port is operational and is active with the
attached node (exchanging idles, but not
necessarily logged in to the switch or director).