FICON Port Attributes

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Item     Description
TypeNumber

The type number for this FICON Director.

SerialNumber

The sequence number assigned to this FICON Director during manufacturing.

PortId

This is the identifier of the peer port.

  • If the peer port's unit type is channel, then PortId will be the CHPID (Channel Path Identifier) of the channel path that contains this peer port.
  • If the peer port is controlUnit, then PortId will be 0.
  • If the peer port is fabric, then PortId will be port address of the interface on the peer switch.
FcID

The fabric Id of the other side port (initiator /target). This will be filled only in the case of Fabric ports.

Status

'valid' - if this information is current.

'old' - if this information is cached. Click Clear Old Attributes to clear the cache.

Name

The FICON port name.

Manufacturer

The name of the the company that manufactured this FICON Director.

ModelNumber

The model number for this FICON Director.

PlantOfMfg

The plant code that identifies the plant of manufacture of this FICON Director.

UnitType

The peer type of the port that this port is communicating.

  • Channel - host
  • Control Unit - disk
  • Fabric - ISL
Alert

Displays one of the following:

  • bitErrThreshExceeded,
  • lossOfSignalOrSync,
  • nosReceived,
  • primitiveSeqTimeOut,
  • invalidPrimitiveSeq

Click Clear to acknowledge and clear this alert.