Viewing network details

The Network page in the IBM Storage Fusion user interface provides information about switches, VLANs, and links in the system.

From the IBM Storage Fusion HCI System menu, click Infrastructure > Network. The Network page displays Switches, Links, and VLAN in three tab pages. Click each tab to view the respective details in a table format. Use the Search field to filter and find records. The settings icon helps you to customize the column headings of these tables. Decide the number of records per page by using the Items per page drop-down list of the table. You can traverse to the previous or next page views. Select a number from the drop-down list of the page numbers to jump to a specific page view.

Switches tab page

The Switches is the default tab page that gets displayed when you click Infrastructure > Network. It displays a list of high speed, internal management, and spine switches (for high-availability cluster and expansion cluster) in a table format. The column headers that are displayed by default in the table are Name, Hardware status, Type, Model, Firmware, IBM S/N, Rack, and Rack unit. Click (Run command icon) to run a command to work with the switch. For more information about run command, see Running commands for switches. You cannot delete a switch from this tab page.

Switch details

Click the switch name link that you want to manage. It opens the Network page that includes the graphical view, recent events, and other details of the switch and its internal components and statuses. Hover over a graphical view of the switch to check internal components and status. To debug further, click the internal component that is in red color. It opens a new slide out pane for ports with more details such as port, speed, and status.

The following images shows examples of management and high-speed switches.

Click the View table to check all internal components and its status in the table format. It opens Components table page that includes Ports, Fans, and Power supply in three tabs.

Component	Details
Ports	It displays a list of ports. The column headers that are displayed by default in the table are Port, Status, and Speed (Gbps).
Fans	It displays the status of the fans of the switch.
Power supply	It displays the status of the power supply of the switch.

Click View all in the Recent events panel to go to the events page and view all recent events on the hardware component.

Note: The recent events pane includes details of the last five events that occurred for the switch.

If you want more information about the switch, go through Details section to get more details of the switch.

	Description
Type	The type of the switch (the options are Spine, Management, and High-speed).
Model	The model number of the switch.
IBM S/N	The hardware serial number.
Manufacture S/N	The IPv6 address of the switch.
Rack unit	The rack unit position of the switch in the rack.
Rack	The name of the rack.
Firmware	The firmware version of the switch.

Click Run command to run a command to work with the switch. For more information about run command, see Running commands for switches.

Links tab page: Click Links tab to view a list of all available links in a table format. The column headers that are displayed by default are Name, Type, Port number, Transceiver, Aggregation, VLANs, and Native VLAN. To add a new link, click Create link. For more information about adding new link, see Adding links. Click edit icon to edit the link or delete icon to delete it.

VLANs tab page: Click VLAN tab to view a list of all available VLANs in a table format. The column headers that are displayed by default in the table are Name, Type, Status, ID, and Multiple links. To add a new VLAN, click Create VLAN. For more information about creating VLAN, see Adding VLANs. Click edit icon to edit the VLAN or delete icon to delete it. If a VLAN is associated to a link, then you cannot delete it.