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Intrepid® 6140 Director Installation and Service Manual
Installation Tasks
Configure Ports
To configure Fibre Channel ports:
1. At the Hardware View,selectPorts from the Configure menu. The
Configure Ports dialog box displays (Figure 2-30).
Figure 2-30 Configure Ports Dialog Box
a. For each port to be configured, type a port name of 24
alphanumeric characters or less in the associated Name field.
Theportnameshouldcharacterizethedevicetowhichthe
port is attached.
b. The director provides a port buffer pool of 150 receive
BB_Credits. Each port can be assigned between two and 12
credits, provided the total credits allocated to all ports does
notexceed150.TypethedesiredvalueintheRX BB_Credit
column.
c. Click the check box in the LIN Alerts column to enable or
disable link incident (LIN) alerts (default is enabled). A check
mark in the box indicates alerts are enabled. When the feature
is enabled and an incident occurs on the port link, an alert
indicator (yellow triangle) displays atthe Hardware View,anda
message is sent to configured e-mail recipients.
d. Click the checkbox in the FAN column toenable or disable the
fabric address notification (FAN) feature (default is enabled).
A check mark in the box indicates FAN is enabled. When the
feature is enabled, the port transmits a FAN frame after loop
initialization to verify that FC-AL devices are still logged in. It
is recommended this option be enabled for ports configured
for loop operation.