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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McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual
Installation Tasks
This value designates the fabric’s principal switch. The
principal switch is assigned a priority of 1 and controls the
allocation and distribution of domain IDs for all fabric
elements (including itself).
Principal is the highest priority setting, Default is the next
highest, and Never Principal is the lowest priority setting. The
setting Never Principal means the switch is incapable of
becoming a principal switch. If all switches are set to Principal
or Default, the switch with the highest priority and the lowest
world wide name (WWN) becomes the principal switch.
At least one switch in a fabric must be set as Principal or
Default. If all switches are set to Never Principal, all interswitch
links (ISLs) segment.
d. Select from the Interop Mode drop-down list to set the switch
operating mode. This setting only affects the mode used to
manage the switch; it does not affect port operation. Available
selections are:
1. McDATA Fabric 1.0 - Select this option if the switch is
fabric-attached only to other McDATA directors or switches
operating in McDATA fabric mode.
• Open Fabric 1.0 - Select this option (default) for managing
heterogeneous fabrics and if the switch is fabric-attached to
McDATA directors or switches and open-fabric compliant
switches produced by other original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs).
NOTE: When Open Fabric 1.0 is selected, the default zone is
disabled, and you have to activate the default zone or enable the
active zone set
2. Click Activate to save and activate the changes. The message Your
changes to the fabric parameters configuration have been
successfully activated appears.
3. Set the switch online as follows:
a. At the Configure panel, select the Operations option at the left
side of the panel. The Operations panel opens and the Switch
page displays with the Beacon tab selected