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Identifying and diagnosing loss of signal for a switch port
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Monitoring Your Datacenter
A new view appears below the Alerts view.
2. Clicks Topology on the toolbar to change the view type.
3. Drags the port from the Alerts view to the Topology view.
4. Clicks the plus sign next to the switch (Mainstreet_3800) in the middle of the view
to show its ports.
The Topology view shows the switch on which the port resides. In the view, a red X
icon indicates the port with the problem (Figure 55).
Figure 55 Topology view
5. Clicks Show Links on the Topology view toolbar to draw the links between the
switch ports, hosts, and storage.
6. Expands the Hosts folder on the left and the Storage folder on the right.
7. Resizes the Topology view to see the connections more clearly and places the
cursor over the link between the troubled switch and the director port to highlight
it (Figure 56).