Wired Interfaces

The Wired Interfaces card provides a summary of the health status, port details, neighboring device information, role, and uplink type of a gateway's wired interfaces. The gateways support both HPE Aruba Networking USB devices and third-party USB devices.

Note:

The Wired Interfaces card does not display LLDP information for offline switches.

Figure 1: Wired Interfaces Card

When you hover over a port, the following details are displayed:

Table 1: Wired Interfaces Card Tool Tip Information

Parameter

Description

Port

Indicates the port number of the gateway.

Health Status

Indicates the health status and connectivity status of the port.

Speed/Duplex

Indicates the effective port speed and communication direction over the network link or port. If a port is configured for auto-negotiation, this value is effective speed and duplex mode. The default speed is 1 Gbps in most of the gateway models.

The duplex mode can be one of the following:

  • Full
  • Half
  • Auto

Neighbor

Indicates the name of the device that is connected to the port.

The icon displays status of the device health of the neighbor (green, yellow, or red). You can click on the neighbor's name to take you to the device dashboard.

Role

Indicates the assigned user role.

Link

Indicates the link type (Uplink).

To view additional information of the gateway wired interfaces, click the expand icon. The expanded wired interfaces card displays the faceplate details, port summary, link aggregations, ports, its neighbors, and the associated VLAN details. You can hover over each port on the faceplate graphic to see the status, speed, duplex, and role details.

Figure 2: Expanded View of the Wired Interfaces Card

On the Ports table in the expanded view, you can:

  • Free text Search for ports using the search bar.

  • Customize Columns to select or reorder the columns that are displayed in the expanded Wired Interface card or to reset the columns to default view.

  • Filter ports based on your network:

    • Status (connected, not connected, error, or disabled)

    • Connector (RJ45, SFP, or Fiber Connector)

    • Speed (10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 10 Gbps)

    • Duplex (Half, or Full)

    • VLAN mode (Access, Native, or Trunk VLAN)

    • Neighbor Category

    • Neighbor Function

    • Uplink

    • Errors (only visible if gateway interface is in error state)

  • Select Information to Display—On the ports graphic, you can select None, VLAN, Link Aggregations, or Neighbor type to display additional information on the port faceplate graphic.

  • Neighbor type shows the device type of the neighbor physically connected to the port, based on the timeline selected. It can be one the following:

    • Gateway

    • Switch

    • Access Point

    • Wired Client

    • UXI sensor

  • Link Aggregations shows the LAG ID within the ports that are part of the LAG.

  • VLAN shows the VLAN type of each associated port based on the timeline selected. It can be one of the following:

    • A—Access VLAN

    • N—Native VLAN

    • T—Trunk VLAN

    The following table describes the Gateway Wired Interfaces expanded card parameters:

    Table 2: Wired Interfaces Ports Table Information

    Parameter

    Description

    Port

    Indicates the port number (ID) of the gateway.

    Description

    Indicates the port description of the gateway.

    Connector

    Indicates the type of connector used. It can be one of the following:

    • RJ45
    • SFP
    • QSFP

    Speed/Duplex

    Indicates the effective port speed and communication direction over the network link or port. If a port is configured for auto-negotiation, this value is effective speed and duplex mode. The default speed is 1 Gbps in most of the gateway models.

    The duplex mode can be one of the following:

    • Full
    • Half
    • Auto

    VLAN

    Indicates the VLAN ID of the port.

    For Access port mode, value is the VLAN ID.

    For Trunk port mode, Native indicates the VLAN ID and Allowed indicates the allowed VLAN IDs range.

    For Router port mode, the value is null.

    LAG

    Indicates the LAG name.

    Uplink

    Indicates the name of the uplink associated with the port. If there is no associated uplink, No is displayed in the ports table.

    Neighbor

    Indicates the name of the device that is connected to the port.

    The icon displays status of the device health of the neighbor (green, yellow, or red). You can click on the neighbor's name to take you to the device dashboard.

    Neighbor Role

    Indicates the assigned unified Aruba user role to the device. When more than one client is detected and when their roles are different, then the value is displayed as Multiple roles.

    Neighbor Classification

    Indicates the classification category of the neighbor.

     

    Port Mode

    Indicates the configuration mode of the port. It can be one of the following:

    • Access
    • Trunk
    • Routed

    MAC address

    Indicates the MAC address of the port.

    Cellular MTU

    Indicates the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) in bytes for the port.
Note:

The Ports table displays only Port, Connector, VLAN, and Uplink information for HPE Aruba Networking USB devices and third-party USB devices.

  • The Port Summary section shows a breakdown of the ports by their status and the uplink status.

  • The Link Aggregations section lists all the LAGs for the device or stack of devices. You can see the LAG Name and Port Count (number of ports that are the members of the LAG).

    Note:

    The Link aggregations details are visible only when LAG is configured on the gateway device.

  • The Port Errors section displays the number of gateway interfaces or ports that have an error rate more than 10% along with the type of error. The device health is shown as Fair (yellow) due to error state.

    Note:

    Port errors section is visible only when a gateway interface device is in the error state.

  • The Hardware Status is displayed as green or red icon based on the severity of the fans, CPU, power supply, and thermal hardware health. You can hover over the hardware status icon to see more details.

  • Click on any port in the table to open up the port details side panel. Here, you can view the port description, speed/duplex details, neighbor details, LAG details (if configured), VLAN details (VLAN mode and VLAN ID), and graphical usage statistics for the last 3 hours. You can further expand the Usage details to view the connectivity performance. Under the LAG section, you can see the LAG name, description, LAG mode (LACP or static), and Ports summary (number of ports that are part of the LAG).

    Note:

    HPE Aruba Networking Central does not support additional port details in the side panel for HPE Aruba Networking USB devices and third-party USB devices.

The colors and information in the faceplate are defined with the following legends:

  • Connected

  • Error

  • Disabled

  • Not Connected

  • Uplink

Figure 3: Gateway Wired Interfaces Legend

The health status of the gateway ports is updated in the Wired Interfaces card when the following alerts are generated:

  • Gateway Interface CRC Error

  • Gateway Interface Collision Error

  • Gateway Interface Giants Error

  • Gateway Interface Runts Error

Figure 4: Gateway Wired Interfaces Side Panel