Brocade Communications Systems 4016 manual Operating the Brocade SilkWorm, Interoperability

Operating the Brocade SilkWorm 4016	Chapter
	4

This chapter describes the operation and interoperability of the SilkWorm 4016. Included in this chapter are:

•“Interoperability” on page 4-1

•“Accessing the SilkWorm 4016” on page 4-2

•“Interpreting POST Results” on page 4-3

•“Interpreting LED Activity” on page 4-4

•“Removing and Replacing the SilkWorm 4016” on page 4-5

Interoperability

The SilkWorm 4016 supports interoperability for:

•link initialization

•principal switch selection

•routing (FSPF)

•Simple Name Service

•state change notification

•soft WWN zoning

•SNMP facilities

•translative mode (private target support on fabrics)

•trunking (between two Brocade switches)

•Advanced Performance Monitoring

The SilkWorm 4016 interoperates with the Brocade SilkWorm switches shown in Table 4-1.

Table 4-1	Compatible Switches
Switch		Minimum Version	Switch	Minimum Version
SilkWorm 3014		4.2.1	SilkWorm 4100	4.4.0
SilkWorm 3200		3.1.2	SilkWorm 12000	4.2.0
SilkWorm 3250		4.2.0	SilkWorm 24000	4.2.0
SilkWorm 3800		3.1.2	SilkWorm 48000	5.0.1a
SilkWorm 3850		4.2.0	SilkWorm 200E	5.0.1a
SilkWorm 3900		4.2.0

SilkWorm 4016 Hardware Reference Manual 4-1

Publication Number: 53-1000175-01