McDATA 4416 manual Glossary

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Access Control List	Access Control List zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling
Zone	discovery and inbound traffic.
Active Zone Set	The zone set that defines the current zoning for the fabric.
Active Firmware	The firmware image on the switch that is in use.
Activity LED	A port LED that indicates when frames are entering or leaving the port.
Administrative State	State that determines the operating state of the port, I/O blade, or switch. The
	configured administrative state is stored in the switch configuration. The
	configured administrative state can be temporarily overridden using the
	command line interface.
Alarm	A message generated by the switch that specifically requests attention.
	Alarms are generated by several switch processes. Some alarms can be
	configured.
AL_PA	Arbitrated Loop Physical Address
Arbitrated Loop	A Fibre Channel topology where ports use arbitration to establish a
	point-to-point circuit.
Arbitrated Loop	A unique one-byte value assigned during loop initialization to each NL_Port
Physical Address	on a loop.
(AL_PA)
ASIC	Application Specific Integrated Circuit. A chip designed for a specific
	applications, such as a transmission protocol or a computer.
Auto Save	Zoning parameter that determines whether changes to the active zone set that
	a switch receives from other switches in the fabric will be saved to permanent
	memory on that switch.

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