General InformationI

Figure 1–3 on page 1-5illustrates inband product management. In the figure, the managed product is an edge switch 2/16. The figure shows the following elements:

1

4

FICON

2

 

 

Channel

 

Fibre Channel

Connection

 

 

3

 

 

SHR-2364b

1 S/390 or zSeries 900 parallel 3

Edge switch 2/16

Enterprise Server

4

OSI server

 

2Host-attached console

Figure 1–3: Inband Product Management

Error-Detection, Reporting, and Serviceability Features

The switch provides the following error-detection, reporting, and serviceability features:

•Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on switch FRUs and adjacent to Fibre Channel ports that provide visual indicators of hardware status or malfunctions.

•System and threshold alerts, event logs, audit logs, link incident logs, threshold alert logs, and hardware logs that display switch, Ethernet link, and Fibre Channel link status at the HAFM server or on a remote workstation.