Concept Guide

22 SupportAssist.......................................................................................................................................... 252
Conguring SupportAssist Using a Conguration Wizard........................................................................................253
Conguring SupportAssist Manually........................................................................................................................... 253
Conguring SupportAssist Activity............................................................................................................................. 255
Conguring SupportAssist Company..........................................................................................................................256
Conguring SupportAssist Person...............................................................................................................................257
Conguring SupportAssist Server............................................................................................................................... 257
Viewing SupportAssist Conguration..........................................................................................................................258
23 System Time and Date.............................................................................................................................260
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................260
Setting the Time for the Software Clock................................................................................................................... 260
Setting the Timezone.....................................................................................................................................................261
Setting Daylight Savings Time...................................................................................................................................... 261
Setting Daylight Saving Time Once........................................................................................................................261
Setting Recurring Daylight Saving Time............................................................................................................... 262
Conguring the Oset-Threshold for NTP Audit Log............................................................................................... 263
24 Uplink Failure Detection (UFD)................................................................................................................ 264
Supported Modes..........................................................................................................................................................264
Feature Description....................................................................................................................................................... 264
How Uplink Failure Detection Works...........................................................................................................................265
UFD and NIC Teaming...................................................................................................................................................266
Important Points to Remember....................................................................................................................................267
Uplink Failure Detection (SMUX mode)...................................................................................................................... 267
Conguring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode)................................................................................................ 268
Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode)................................................................................................269
Displaying Uplink Failure Detection.............................................................................................................................. 270
Sample Conguration: Uplink Failure Detection......................................................................................................... 272
25 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator........................................................................................................... 274
I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode..................................................................................... 274
Conguring and Changing to PMUX Mode................................................................................................................ 274
Conguring the Commands without a Separate User Account...............................................................................275
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)........................................................................................................................................... 275
Overview...................................................................................................................................................................275
Setting up VLT..........................................................................................................................................................276
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) in PMUX Mode..........................................................................................................277
VLT Terminology.......................................................................................................................................................279
Congure Virtual Link Trunking.............................................................................................................................. 280
Verifying a VLT Conguration.................................................................................................................................284
Additional VLT Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................. 286
Troubleshooting VLT................................................................................................................................................ 287
26 FC Flex IO Modules..................................................................................................................................289
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