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124 Sun Storage Fibre Channel Switch 5802 QuickTools User Guide September 2008
Class 2 Service A service which multiplexes frames at frame boundaries to or from one or
more N_Ports wit h acknowledgment provided.
Class 3 Service A service which multiplexes frames at frame boundaries to or from one or
more N_Ports without acknowledgment.
Configured Zone Sets The zone sets stored on a switch excluding the active zone set.
Default Visibility Zoning parameter that determines the level of communication among
ports/devices when there is no active zone set.
Domain ID User defined number that identifies the switch in the fabric.
Event Log Log of messages describing events that occur in the fabric.
Expansion Port E_Port that connects to another FC-SW-2 compliant switch.
Fabric Database The set of fabrics that have been opened during a QuickTools session.
Fabric Management
Switch The switch through which the fabric is managed.
Fabric Name User defined name associated with the file that contains user list data for the
fabric.
Fabric Port An F_Port
Fabric View File A file containing a set of fabrics that were opened and saved during a previous
QuickTools session.
Fan Fail LED An LED that indicates that a cooling fan in the switch is operating below
standard.
FCID Fibre Channel Identifier. The value that identifies a device on the fabric.
Flash Memory Memory on the switch that contains the chassis control firmware.
Force PROM Mode See Maintenance Mode.
Frame Data unit consisting of a start-of-frame (SOF) delimiter, header, data payload,
CRC, and an end-of-frame (EOF) delimiter.
Hard Zone Hard zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling discovery and
inbound traffic.
Inactive Firmware The firmware image on the switch that is not in use.
In-band Management The ability to manage a switch through another switch over an inter-switch
link.
Initiator The device that initiates a data exchange with a target device.
In-Order-Delivery A feature that requires that frames be received in the same order in which they
were sent.