Brocade Communications Systems S3-1002483-03 manual Pcmcia slots, Console port, LEDs

1 Hardware features

PCMCIA slots

The PCMCIA slots support a flash PC card. The flash PC card provides storage space in addition to the system’s flash memory. A flash PC card can store system files, including boot images, startup configuration files, running configuration files, and so on. As a result, you can perform system management tasks, such as copying files between flash PC cards, copying files between a flash PC card and flash memory, and so on.

Console port

The Console port is a standard DB-9 serial connector through which you can attach a PC or terminal to configure the BigIron RX Series system using the command line interface (CLI).

This port interfaces the control plane only and not the data plane.

10/100/1000 Ethernet port

The front panel includes a 10BaseT/100BaseTX/1000BaseTX auto-sensing, auto-negotiating Ethernet port. This port has an RJ-45 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) connector.

Typical uses of this port include but are not limited to the following:

•Connecting a PC through which you can access the system through a Telnet or SSHv2 connection and configure, monitor, and manage the BigIron RX Series system.

•Connecting to the 10BaseT/100BaseTX/1000BaseTX port of a switch or router, for connectivity to your existing management network. You can then access the BigIron RX Series system and configure, monitor, and manage the system from a management station.

NOTE

The existing management network into which you can connect the 10/100/1000 Ethernet port must be separate and isolated from the network over which user packets are switched and routed.

This port interfaces the control plane only and not the data plane.

LEDs

Table 1 describes the LEDs on the management module’s front panel.

TABLE 1	Management module LEDs
LED	Position	State	Meaning
Port 1	Each adjacent to	On or blinking	You have inserted a PCMCIA flash card in a slot or initiated
and	the PCMCIA slot		a task related to the file management system on a flash
Port 2	that is		card. As a result, the software is currently accessing the
	represents		flash card.
		Off	The software is not currently accessing a PCMCIA flash card
			inserted in a slot.
Active	Lower Left	On	The module is functioning as the active management
			module.
		Off	The module is functioning as the redundant management
			module.
Pwr	Upper Left	On	The module is receiving power.
		Off	The module is not receiving power.

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