Ports Inventory

[sanspecialist]

Hi,

How can I check the number of ports, ports used and free ports of an MDS switches using Fabric Manager or CLI?

I can only see from Fabric Manager the total number of ports, but I can't see how many ports are being used and how many ports are free.

Thanks.

[Filiph Westman]

Personally the output from "show interface brief" is enough. If you have best practice to shut unused ports you might customize (limit) the output - for an example:

# sh int br | in down

# sh int br | in "down | sfpAbsent"     (if you also have a lot of ports without SFPs)

or to show used ports

# sh int br | in up

# sh int br | in "up | trunking"       (to include trunks)

Not sure if this would be what you were looking for...

- filiph

[sanspecialist]

Not really the one I'm looking. This is still kind of manual to determine how many used and unused ports there is. I'm looking for something a summary of used and unused ports. I'm looking for something that can tell me how many used ports and unused ports without having me to count it manually.

[Filiph Westman · Accepted solution]

You could also use the Fabric Manager web client (point browser to IP of the FM server) to look at the Inventory summary to see total and available ports. It's also possible to create a manual or scheduled report with the same or more detailed information.

[Luis Cardenas]

maybe this will help...

sho interface brief | inc up | count

92

sho interface brief | inc down | count

32

sh int br | inc outOfServc | count

86

[sanspecialist]

This will help as well