Users Guide

22 SupportAssist.......................................................................................................................................... 252
Configuring SupportAssist Using a Configuration Wizard........................................................................................253
Configuring SupportAssist Manually........................................................................................................................... 253
Configuring SupportAssist Activity............................................................................................................................. 255
Configuring SupportAssist Company..........................................................................................................................256
Configuring SupportAssist Person.............................................................................................................................. 257
Configuring SupportAssist Server...............................................................................................................................257
Viewing SupportAssist Configuration......................................................................................................................... 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
Configuring the Offset-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
Configuring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode)................................................................................................268
Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode)............................................................................................... 269
Displaying Uplink Failure Detection..............................................................................................................................270
Sample Configuration: Uplink Failure Detection.........................................................................................................272
25 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator...........................................................................................................274
I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode....................................................................................274
Configuring and Changing to PMUX Mode................................................................................................................274
Configuring 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
Configure Virtual Link Trunking............................................................................................................................. 280
Verifying a VLT Configuration................................................................................................................................284
Additional VLT Sample Configurations................................................................................................................. 286
Troubleshooting VLT...............................................................................................................................................287
26 FC Flex IO Modules................................................................................................................................. 289
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