Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide

Viewing the port view details

Port view is a PowerFlex Manager feature that is associated with a resource group deployment. It enables you to view the physical network configuration characteristics and topology from the network interface cards to upstream switches, highlighting such details as switch ports, VLANs, and network identifiers such as MAC addresses.

1. On the Resource Groups page, view the details for a resource group and click Port View. If you are accessing the port view from the Resources page, select a node that is in a Deployed state and click View Details on the right pane first.

   If you select a node that is not in a deployed state, only the interface card information is displayed.

2. To view device details such as hostname, model name, and management IP address, or information about associated devices, click the specific ports or devices.
3. To view information about intermediate devices in port view, ensure that the devices are discovered and available in the inventory. Sometimes, connectivity cannot be determined for an existing resource group because the switches have not yet been discovered. In this case, you see only the node in port view, but you do not see connectivity information. You can correct this by going back and discovering the switches, and updating the resource group again.

   PowerFlex Manager cannot discover interface cards that do not have integrated LLDP support (such as Intel X520).

4. To filter information based on the connectivity, select an option from the Display Connections list. Show All Connections is the default option.