FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-320, April 2005)

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McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual

General Information

• Notified of a switch problem by E-mail message, either directly or

through a system administrator at the customer site or call center.

• Assigned a service call from call center personnel upon receipt

and confirmation of a switch call-home event.

NOTE: The call-home feature is not available through the SANpilot

interface. The call-home feature may not be available if the EFCM 8.0

Lite application is installed on a customer-supplied platform.

Tools and Test Equipment

This section describes tools and test equipment that may be required

to install, test, service, and verify operation of the switch and

attached management server. These tools are supplied with the

switch or must be supplied by service personnel.

Tools Supplied with

the Switch

The following tools are supplied with the switch. Use of the tools

may be required to perform one or more installation, test, service, or

verification tasks.

• Loopback plug - An SFP multimode (shortwave laser) or

singlemode (longwave laser) loopback plug (Figure 1-12) is

required to perform port loopback diagnostic tests. One loopback

plug is shipped with the switch, depending on the type of port

transceivers installed. Both plugs are shipped if shortwave laser

and longwave laser transceivers are installed.

Figure 1-12 Loopback Plug