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

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General Information
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General Information
• Beaconing to assist service personnel in locating a specific port
or switch. When port beaconing is enabled, the amber LED
associated with the port flashes. When unit beaconing is enabled,
the system error indicator on the front panel flashes. Beaconing
does not affect port or switch operation.
• SNMP management using the Fibre Channel Fabric Element MIB
(Version 1.1), Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) MIB-II definition (RFC 1157), or a product-specific
private enterprise MIB that runs on the switch. Up to six
authorized management workstations can be configured through
the SANpilot interface to receive unsolicited SNMP trap
messages. The trap messages indicate product operational state
changes and failure conditions.
Software Diagnostic Features
The switch provides the following diagnostic software features that
aid in fault isolation and repair of problems:
• SFP transceivers provide on-board diagnostic and monitoring
circuits that continuously report status to the SANpilot interface.
The interface provides system alerts and logs that display failure
and diagnostic information.
• Unsolicited SNMP trap messages that indicate operational state
changes or failures can be transmitted to up to 12 authorized
management workstations.
SANpilot Interface
The SANpilot interface provides a GUI accessed through the Internet
(locally or remotely) to manage, monitor, and isolate problems for the
Sphereon 4300 Switch. When the interface opens, the default display
is the View panel (Figure 1-4 on page 1-12).
Task selection tabs appear at the top of the panel, a graphical
representation of the switch hardware (front only) appears at the
right side of the panel, and menu selections (View, Configure, Monitor,
Operations, and Help) appear at the left side of the panel.