OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control workspace

The OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control workspace displays control data for the OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. The OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control workspace is accessed only as a drill down from the OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Ports Summary workspace using Channel Number and Port Number as link attributes.

Transmitter ON (XON), transmitter OFF (XOFF), and Pause MAC packets are flow control packets between the OSA and the switch to which it is connected. They are used to provide flow control between the two ports. These attributes are of particular interest when the port is at 100% utilization.

To display the OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control workspace, do the following:

  1. Click the OSA navigator item for a specific TCP/IP stack to display the OSA Channels workspace.
  2. If the value for the OSA channel Subtype attribute in the OSA-Express Channels Summary table is tenGigabitEthernet, right-click the Link icon by this table row.
  3. A conditional link is displayed in the list of available links. Select OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Ports to display the OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Ports Summary workspace.
  4. Click the Link icon by one of the rows of the Ports Summary for Channel xyz Summary table.
  5. Select OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control.

The OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit Port Control workspace contains the following views:

Port Control for Port Number abc and Channel xyz Summary table

The Port Errors for Port Number abc and Channel xyz Summary table provides OSA-Express2 10 Gigabit control data for the specified port number and channel, where abc is the selected port number link attribute and xyz is the selected channel number link attribute.

For a complete list of the attributes available in the Port Control for Port Number abc and Channel xyz table, and a brief description of each, see the OSA 10 Gigabit Ports Control Attributes help panel.

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