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Pinging a Target

Perform the following steps to ping a target. If the ping is successful, it verifies that that there is connectivity between this HBA port and the target.

1. In the SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager main window HBA tree, select the HBA port.
2. Click the Diagnostics tab, and then click the Ping tab. The Diagnostics tabbed page (Ping tab) displays (see the illustration below).

Diagnostics Tabbed Page (Ping Tab)

• HBA. HBA instance number and HBA model
• State. The HBA port state. See Monitoring the HBA Port State for details about the HBA port state and its correspondence with the HBA icons.

1. Green background: good
2. Yellow background: warning
3. Blue background: unknown
4. Red background: bad

• HBA iSCSI Name. HBA port iSCSI name. The QLogic manufacturing default name or a name that you assign.
• HBA Alias Name. HBA port iSCSI alias name. Symbolic name you assign to the HBA port for identification purposes.
• IP Address. IP address of the HBA port

The Ping tab displays the ping diagnostic fields:

• IP. IP address of the target to be tested
• Number of Packet(s) (1-10000). Number of packets to test

3. In the IP boxes, enter the IP address of the target.
4. In the Number of Packets box, enter the number of packets you want to send. Valid values are in the range 1-10000. The default is 1.
5. Click the Start Testing button. The HBA name and Current Operation: Ping diag display in the status bar.
6. If you want to stop testing before it is complete, click the Stop Testing button.
7. When the test is complete, the Ping Status dialog box displays (see the illustration below). Click OK.

Ping Status Dialog Box