Availability of Switch Ports report
Shows a chart of the 20 switches with the most ports and connected ports, and a table with the properties of the switches.
Charts
The chart shows the number of ports for each switch that are not online, and the number of ports that are online and connected to other ports.
Tip: To change the sort order,
select a value from the Sort Order list.
Report output
For each switch, the following information is provided:
- Switch Name
- The logical name of the switch where a Fibre Channel port is located, or the name that was defined when the switch was added for monitoring. If neither name is available, IBM Spectrum Control uses the WWN of the switch.
- Switch Location
- The physical location of the switch. The location is defined when a switch is added to IBM Spectrum Control. You can add or edit the location of the switch on the General tab of the properties notebook.
- Switch WWN
- The World Wide Name (WWN) of the switch. A WWN is the unique 64-bit identifier for the switch.
- Switch Is Virtual
- Shows whether a switch is a logical switch. If this value is
Yes, the switch is a logical switch. - Switch IP Address
- The IP address of the resource.
- Switch Vendor
- The vendor who supplied the resource.
- Switch Model
- The model name or model number of the resource.
- Switch Ports
- The total number of ports on the switch that are not online, and ports that are online and connected to other ports.
- Switch Connected Ports
- The number of ports that are connected to a storage resource, where the storage resource can be a storage system, server, or hypervisor. This value is only available when a switch is viewed as a related resource of a storage system, server, or hypervisor.
- Switch Last Data Collection
- The date and time when storage statistics were last collected from the resource.
- Switch Last Data Collection Status
- The condition of the last data collection. The status can show if the collection was a success, a failure, or if data was collected from the resource.