FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000171-010, April 2005)

Preface
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Preface
This publication is part of a documentation suite that supports the
McDATA
®
Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch.
Who Should Use this
Manual
Use this publication if you are a trained installation and service
representative experienced with the switch, storage area network
(SAN) technology, and Fibre Channel technology.
The Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch contains no customer-serviceable
parts that require internal access to the product during normal
operation or prescribed maintenance conditions. In addition, refer to
this manual for instructions prior to performing any maintenance
action.
Organization of this
Manual
This publication includes six chapters and four appendices organized
as follows:
Chapter 1, General Information - This chapter describes the switch,
including field-replaceable units (FRUs), controls, connectors, and
indicators, and switch specifications. The chapter also describes
the maintenance approach, switch management through the
SANpilot interface, error detection and reporting features,
serviceability features, software diagnostic features, and tools and
test equipment.
Chapter 2, Installation Tasks - This chapter describes tasks to
install, configure, and verify operation of the switch.
Chapter 3, Diagnostics - This chapter describes maintenance
analysis procedures (MAPs) to fault isolate a switch problem to
an individual FRU.