Q-Logic 64 manual Fabric Services, Fabric Management

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3 – Planning Fabric Management

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Fabric Services

Fabric services include security-related functions such as inband management and SNMP. Inband management is the ability to manage switches across inter-switch links using SANbox Manager, SNMP, management server, or the application programming interface. The switch comes from the factory with inband management enabled. If you disable inband management on a particular switch, you can no longer communicate with that switch by means other than a direct Ethernet or serial connection. You can also enable or disable SNMP. Consider how you want to manage the fabric and what switches you do not want managed through another switch.

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Fabric Management

The SANbox Manager application and CLI execute on a management workstation that provides for the configuration, control, and maintenance of the fabric. Supported platforms include Windows, Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux. The SANbox Manager application can manage multiple fabrics. Consider how many fabrics will be managed, how many management workstations are needed, and whether the fabrics will be managed with the CLI or SANbox Manager.

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

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

„15 sessions for SANbox Manager inband and out-of-band logins, Application Programming Interface (API) inband and out-of-band logins and Telnet logins. Of these 15, there can be a combined maximum of 10 SANbox Manager and API logins. Additional logins will be refused.

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