View Port Statistics

The Port Statistics tab in HBAnyware provides cumulative totals for various error events and statistics on the port. Statistics are cleared when the HBA is reset. Information fields that did not receive statistics data are grey.

To view port statistics, do the following:

Start HBAnyware.
Select either host or fabric sort.
Click an HBA in the discovery tree. The General tab is displayed.
Click the Port Statistics tab.

Port Statistics Field Definitions

Tx Frames - Fibre Channel frames transmitted by this HBA port.

Tx Words - Fibre Channel words transmitted by this HBA port.

Tx KB Count - Fibre Channel kilobytes transmitted by this HBA port.

Tx Sequences - Fibre Channel sequences transmitted by this HBA port.

LIP count - the number of loop initialization primitive (LIP) events that have occurred for the port. This field is not supported if the topology is not arbitrated loop. Loop initialization consists of the following:

Temporarily suspend loop operations
Determine whether loop capable ports are connected to the loop
Assign AL_PA IDs
Provide notification of configuration changes and loop failures
Place loop ports in the "monitoring" state

Error Frames - the number of frames received with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors.

Link Failures - the number of times the link failed. A link failure is a possible cause of a timeout.

Loss of Signal - the number of times the signal was lost.

Invalid Tx Words - the total number of invalid words transmitted by this HBA port.

Ex Count Orig - the number of Fibre Channel exchanges originating on this port.

Rx Frames - the number of Fibre Channel frames received by this HBA port.

Rx Words - the number of Fibre Channel words received by this HBA port.

Rx KB Count - the received kilobyte count by this HBA port.

Rx Sequences - the number of Fibre Channel sequences received by this HBA port.

NOS count - this statistic is currently not supported for the SCSIport Miniport and Storport Miniport drivers, nor is it supported for arbitrated loop.

Dumped Frames - this statistic is not currently supported for the SCSIport Miniport driver, the Storport Miniport driver or the driver for Solaris.

Loss of Sync - the number of times loss of synchronization has occurred.

Prim Seq Prot Errs - the primitive sequence protocol error count. This counter is incremented whenever there is any type of protocol error.

Invalid CRCs - the number of frames received that contain CRC failures.

Ex Count Resp - the number of Fibre Channel exchange responses made by this port.