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McDATA Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
Monitoring and Managing the Switch
The Block Port option available through port right-click menus in
the Hardware View, port row right-click menus in the Port List
view, is also the port bar graph right-click menus in the
Performance View, and the Port secondary menu of the Product
menu on the menu bar.
Blocked states are:
— Blocked: Devices communicating with the port are prevented
from logging into the switch or communicating with other
devices attached to switch ports. A blocked port continuously
transmits OLS.
— Unblocked: Devices communicating with the port can log in
to the switch and communicate with devices attached to any
other unblocked port in the same zone.
•State
The following port operational states may display in this table.
For more information on these states and corresponding status
symbol and LED indicator operations in the Hardware View, see
Port Operational States on page 2-40.
—No Light
— Online
— Offline
—Beaconing
—Link Reset
—Not Operational
—Not Installed
— Invalid Attachment
—Port Failure
—Segmented E_Port
—Link Incident
—Testing
—Inactive