Switches screen details

The Switches master pane lists all of the switches you have added using logical switches.

Use the filter on the Switches screen to display one type of switch, or all switches. The filter is set to All types by default.

General

Screen component Description

Model

Model of the supported switch; for example, N5K-C5548UP.

Chassis ID

Unique identifier of the switch.

Firmware

Version of firmware activated on the switch.

Location

The location of the device in a physical rack. The term not set means that you have not added the device to the rack configuration.

Powered by

Link to the Power Delivery Devices screen and the device supplying power to the switch.

State

Current state of the switch:

`Configured`	Switch is configured or can be configured
`ConfigError`	Switch cannot be configured
`Unmanaged`	Switch cannot be managed because its firmware version is unsupported, and is most likely, too old
`Unsupported`	Switch type is unexpected and not a supported switch type

IP address

IP address of the switch.

vPC member ID

Switch ID in the vPC configuration.

vPC role

Displays the Cisco Virtual PortChannel (vPC) role of Primary or Secondary for Cisco Nexus switches.

vPC peer

Displays the vPC peer switch name for Cisco Nexus switches.

Logical switch

Hyperlink to associated logical switch.

Used by

Hyperlink to the HPE OneView-managed Cisco Fabric Extender for HPE BladeSystem modules that are connected to the switch.

Ports

Screen component Description

Port status icon

Indicates the status of the port.

Port

Port numbers for Cisco Nexus switches with expansion slots have a format of slot_number.port_number. The slot number for the main module is 1.

Type

Port type: none, Ethernet, Stacking, or FIBRE_CHANNEL.

State

State of the port:

Possible states are:

Linked	The port is physically linked to the interconnect.
Unlinked	The port is not physically linked to the interconnect.
Disabled	The port has been disabled from the Edit interconnect screen.

Speed (Gb/s)

Port speed, in Gb/s.

Connected To

The peer switch to which the top-of-rack switch is connected using a stacking link.

Port Name

Vendor-specific port name.

Port Channel

Port channel ID. A port channel bundles up to eight individual physical ports into a group to provide increased bandwidth and redundancy.

vPC Number

Virtual PortChannel (vPC) ID. A vPC allows links that are physically connected to two different Cisco Nexus top-of-rack switches to appear as a single PortChannel to a FEX interconnect module.

Additional switch port details

Click the icon to expand the additional details section of an uplink port, and click the icon to collapse it.

The fields below are populated automatically. You cannot change them.

Connector

This section displays data when a transceiver module is inserted.

Type	Type of transceiver module inserted, either `SFP` (Small Form-factor Pluggable Transceiver), SFP+ (10GB/s) or QSFP+ (40GB/s Quad Small Form-factory pluggable only supported with HPE Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 interconnects)
Extended Identifier	Hexadecimal number that identifies the device (vendor specific) connected to the uplink port
Vendor	Name of the vendor that manufactured the device connected to the port
Vendor OUI	Unique 24–bit OUI (Organizationally Unique Identifier) assigned to the vendor by the IEEE Registration Authority
Part Number	Part number of the device connected to the port
Revision	Hardware revision number of the device connected to the uplink port

VLAN IDs

VLAN identification numbers along with associated networks (if any) configured on this port. If a network exists for a VLAN ID, a hyperlink is provided for that network.

Advanced Statistics

This section displays port level advanced statistics counters.

Switch port advanced statistics

Top-of-rack port statistics

Port statistics	Description
IfInOctets	The total number of octets received on the interface, including framing characters.
IfOutOctets	The total number of octets transmitted out of the interface, including framing characters.
IfInDiscards	The number of inbound packets that were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their being delivered to a higher-layer protocol. For example, discarding such a packet can free buffer space.
IfOutDiscards	The output drops as shown in the `show interfaces` command.
IfInUcastPkts	The number of packets, delivered by this sub-layer to a higher (sub-)layer, that were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sub-layer.
IfOutUcastPkts	The total number of packets that higher-level protocols requested be transmitted, and which were not addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sub-layer, including those that were discarded or not sent.
IfInErrors	For packet-oriented interfaces, the number of inbound packets that contained errors that prevent them from being delivered to a higher-layer protocol. For character-oriented or fixed-length interfaces, the number of inbound transmission units that contained errors that prevent them from being delivered to a higher-layer protocol.
IfOutErrors	For packet-oriented interfaces, the number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors. For character-oriented or fixed-length interfaces, the number of outbound transmission units that could not be transmitted because of errors.

Edit switch

Screen component Description

Port

Port numbers for Cisco Nexus switches with expansion slots have a format of slot_number.port_number. The slot number for the main module is 1.

Type

Port type: none, Ethernet, Stacking, or FIBRE_CHANNEL.

Enabled

Modify the status of a port by selecting the box to enable the port, or clear the box to disable the port.

Ports which are linked but not managed by HPE OneView cannot be enabled or disabled and will display n/a instead of a check box.

State

State of the port:

Possible states are:

Linked	The port is physically linked to the interconnect.
Unlinked	The port is not physically linked to the interconnect.
Disabled	The port has been disabled from the Edit interconnect screen.

Speed (Gb/s)

Port speed, in Gb/s.

Connected To

The peer switch to which the top-of-rack switch is connected using a stacking link.

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