Q-Logic 5000 manual New in this Release

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1 – Introduction New in this Release

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New in this Release

The following items are new in the current release:

„The switch is equipped with the QuickTools embedded graphical user interface. QuickTools is a web applet that provides basic switch management tools.

„Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 is a workstation-based Java® application that provides a graphical user interface for fabric management. Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 includes the mPort Technology feature by which you can move port licenses from active ports to inactive ports including 10-Gbps ports. Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 comes with a free 30-day trial license – a permanent license is available for purchase from your authorized reseller.

„The following optional features are available in Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 and the Command Line Interface (CLI) with the purchase and installation of a license key:

‰Fabric Security provides for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Secure Shell (SSH) connection security, device security using Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), and remote authentication using a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server.

‰SANdoctor provides tools for Fibre Channel connection verification, Fibre Channel route tracing, and transceiver diagnostic information.

‰Port Activation enables additional Fibre Channel ports up to the 20-port maximum.

„You can download firmware image files using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) using the Firmware Install, Image Install, and Image TFTP commands.

„The switch supports hardware enforced hard zoning by default. If the zoning configuration exceeds the hardware limits; zones revert to soft zones.

„You can remove inactive zone sets and all zones and aliases not in the active zone set.

„Port binding establishes a list of port/devices that are permitted to log in to a switch port.

„Support for 5- and 6-switch stacks connected with 10-Gbps stacking cables.

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