Monitoring the HBA Port State
The HBA port state indicates the status of the HBA. The most severe state displays: bad, unknown, warning, good. The table below details the HBA port state referenced in the dialog boxes and its correspondence with the HBA icons:
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HBA Icon
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HBA Port State
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Green background: Good
Includes: Ready, Link Up |
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Yellow background: Warning
Includes: Busy, Commit Needed, HBA Diag Mode, Not Initialized, Reboot Needed |
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Blue background: Unknown
Includes: Get Crash Rec, Log out/Reconnect Targets, Not Configured, Ping Diag, Refreshing Data, Resetting, Restore Factory Defaults, Saving Configuration, Target LogIn, Updating BIOS, Updating Driver, Updating FW |
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Red background: Bad (HBA port not available)
Includes: FW Error, Resetting/Error, HBA Down, Link Down |
For example, in the illustration below, HBA port Sys4084 is in an unknown state, as indicated by its HBA icon (blue) and the HBA port state (blue background with Ready, Link Up, Refreshing Data).
Monitoring the HBA Port State (Example)
Good
Warning
Unknown
Link down
Bad
