Q-Logic 5000 manual Fabric Management

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3 – Planning Fabric Management

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Fabric Management

The Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 application executes on a management workstation and provides for the configuration, control, and maintenance of multiple fabrics. Supported platforms include Windows, Solaris, Linux, and MacOS X. Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 comes with a 30-day trial license – a permanent license is available for purchase from your authorized reseller.

The browser-based application, QuickTools, and the CLI reside in the switch firmware and provide for the management of individual switches in a single fabric.

Consider how many fabrics and switches will be managed, how many management workstations are needed, and whether the fabrics will be managed with Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007, QuickTools, or the CLI.

A switch supports a combined maximum of 19 logins reserved as follows:

„4 logins or sessions for internal applications such as management server and SNMP

„9 high priority Telnet sessions

„6 logins or sessions for Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 inband and out-of-band logins, Application Programming Interface (API) inband and out-of-band logins, and Telnet logins. Additional logins will be refused.

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