The technician port is a
designated Ethernet port on the back panel of the node canister that you can use to initialize a
system or configure the node canister.
You can use the technician port to do these tasks:
Initialize a new system.
Service a node canister.
The technician port is the Ethernet port that is labeled T on the
rear of the node canister. Figure 1 shows the rear of the
node canister, where 1 is the technician port.Figure 1. Storwize V7000 Gen2 and Storwize V7000 Gen2+ technician port
Each of the node canisters in the
Storwize® V7000 Gen3 control enclosure
has a 1 Gb Ethernet technician port, as shown in Figure 2. Because node canister 1 is inverted, the plug of the Ethernet cable also needs to
be inverted to connect to the technician port.Figure 2. Technician ports
