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# View masking view connections

A masking view is a container of a storage group, a port group, and an initiator group, and makes the storage group visible to the host.

## Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

This procedure explains how to perform the operation from the Masking Views list view. You can also perform this operation from vVol Dashboard > PE Masking Views and the vVol Dashboard > vVol NVMe Masking Views list views. In eNAS operating environments, you can also perform this operation from the File Masking Views page (System > System Dashboard > File Dashboard > File Masking Views).

## Steps

1. Select the storage system.
2. Select Hosts > Masking Views to open the Masking Views list view.
3. Select one or more masking views from the list and click View Path Details to open the masking view connections view.
4. Use the Masking View view to filter a masking view by selecting various combinations of members within a group (initiators, ports, volumes) and display the masking view details from the group level to the object level.

   Filtering a masking view

   The Masking view view contains three tree view lists for each of the component groups in the masking view, initiator groups, ports groups, and storage groups.

   The parent group is the default top-level group in each expandable tree view and contains a list of all components in the masking group including child entries which are also expandable.

   To filter the masking view, single or multi-select (hold shift key and select) the items in the list view.

   As each selection is made, the filtered results table is updated to reflect the current combination of filter criteria.

   Filtered results table

   Some of the following properties and controls are environment-specific and may appear in a different order or not at all.

   The following properties display:

   LUN Address
     LUN address number.
   Volume
     Storage system system volume number.
   Storage Group
     Storage group name
   Capacity (GB)
     Capacity, in GB, of the volume.
   PowerPath Host
     PowerPath host name
   Host
     Host name
   Initiator
     WWN or IQN (iSCSI Qualified Name) ID of the initiator.
   FCID
     Fibre Channel ID
   Alias
     Alias of the initiator
   Port Group
     Port group name
   Director:Port
     Storage system director and port in the port group.
   Logged In
     Indicates if the initiator is logged into the host/target.
   On Fabric
     Indicates if the initiator is zoned in and on the fabric.
   Fabric
     Fabric name.
   Protocol
     Protocol name.

   The following additional filters are available to filter the results table:

   Show Logged In
     Shows only the entries for LUNs where the associated initiator is logged in.
   Show On Fabric
     Shows only the entries for LUNs where the associated initiator is zoned in and on the fabric.