SANbox 5600 Series

Switch Management User’s Guide

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Class 3 Service

A service which multiplexes frames at frame boundaries to or from one or more N_Ports without acknowledgment.

Configured Zone Sets

The zone sets stored on a switch excluding the active zone set.

Default Visibility

Zoning parameter that determines the level of communication among ports/devices when there is no active zone set.

Domain ID

User defined number that identifies the switch in the fabric.

Event Log

Log of messages describing events that occur in the fabric.

Expansion Port

E_Port that connects to another FC-SW-2 compliant switch.

Fabric Database

The set of fabrics that have been opened during a SANsurfer Switch Manager session.

Fabric Management Switch

The switch through which the fabric is managed.

Fabric Name

User defined name associated with the file that contains user list data for the fabric.

Fabric Port

An F_Port

Fabric View File

A file containing a set of fabrics that were opened and saved during a previous SANsurfer Switch Manager session.

Fan Fail LED

An LED that indicates that a cooling fan in the switch is operating below standard.

Flash Memory

Memory on the switch that contains the chassis control firmware.

Force PROM Mode

See Maintenance Mode.

Frame

Data unit consisting of a start-of-frame (SOF) delimiter, header, data payload, CRC, and an end-of-frame (EOF) delimiter.

FRU

Field Replaceable Unit

Heartbeat LED

A chassis LED that indicates the status of the internal switch processor and the results of the Power-On Self-Test.

Inactive Firmware

The firmware image on the switch that is not in use.

In-band Management

The ability to manage a switch through another switch over an inter-switch link.

Initiator

The device that initiates a data exchange with a target device.

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Q-Logic 5600 Class 3 Service, Configured Zone Sets, Default Visibility, Domain ID, Event Log, Expansion Port, Fabric Name