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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Document Revision History
  • Page 3 – Table of Contents; Section 1
  • Page 4 – Section 3
  • Page 5 – Section 4
  • Page 6 – Appendix A Specifications
  • Page 7 – Glossary
  • Page 8 – Figures; Figure; Tables; Table
  • Page 9 – Introduction; Guide; Intended Audience; SANbox2-8c/16 Switch Management User’s Guide
  • Page 10 – New in this Release
  • Page 11 – Safety Notices
  • Page 12 – This device may not cause harmful interference, and; Canadian Department of Communications Class A Compliance
  • Page 13 – Avis de conformité aux normes du ministère des Communications du
  • Page 15 – Laser Safety Information
  • Page 16 – Interfaces aux media d’interconnexion appelés SFP transceivers.; Zugängliche Teile
  • Page 17 – General Public License
  • Page 18 – Terms And Conditions For Copying, Distribution And Modification
  • Page 22 – NO WARRANTY; BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS; END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS; How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
  • Page 23 – yyyy name of author
  • Page 24 – Technical Support; Visit the QLogic support Web site listed in; Availability; , you may choose Electronic-Based Training or schedule an; Contact Information
  • Page 25 – Section 2; General Description
  • Page 26 – Chassis Controls and LEDs; The Maintenance button shown in; Maintenance Button; ”Recovering a Switch” on page 5-12; Resetting a Switch
  • Page 27 – ”Port LEDs” on page 2-5
  • Page 28 – Fibre Channel Ports
  • Page 29 – Port LEDs; for more information; Port Activity LED; ”Distance” on page 3-4
  • Page 30 – Port Types
  • Page 31 – ”Multiple Chassis Fabrics” on page 3-6; Ethernet Port; The Ethernet port shown in
  • Page 32 – . You can manage the; Figure 2-8. Serial Port and Pin Identification; and identified in; Pin Number
  • Page 33 – Power Supply and Fan
  • Page 34 – SANsurfer Switch Manager Web Applet; ”Set Setup; Command Line Interface; Appendix B Command Line Interface; SANsurfer Switch Manager Application Programming Interface; SANbox/SANbox2 Simple Network Management Protocol Reference
  • Page 35 – File Transfer Protocol; ”Backing up and Restoring Switch Configurations”
  • Page 36 – Notes
  • Page 37 – Planning; Devices
  • Page 38 – Device Access; Group devices by operating systems.; Limit
  • Page 39 – Soft Zones; Soft zone boundaries yield to ACL zone boundaries.; Access Control List Hard Zones; The ACL zone boundary is secure against inbound traffic.
  • Page 40 – Performance; Distance
  • Page 41 – Bandwidth; Source Port Rate; Source/Destination Rates
  • Page 42 – ”Performance” on page 3-4
  • Page 43 – Domain ID, Principal Priority, and Domain ID Lock; Domain ID
  • Page 45 – Mesh Topology; has the following characteristics:
  • Page 46 – Multistage Topology
  • Page 47 – Fabric Security; Fabric security consists of the following:; User Account Security; ”Set Setup Command” on page B-49; Fabric Services
  • Page 48 – Fabric Management; high priority Telnet sessions
  • Page 49 – Installation; Site Requirements; Consider the following items when installing a SANbox2-8c switch:; Fabric Management Workstation; Table 4-1. Management Workstation Requirements
  • Page 50 – Environmental Conditions; Operating temperature range:; Installing a Switch; Power cord
  • Page 51 – Mount the Switch
  • Page 52 – Install SFP Transceivers; If the switch is mounted in a closed or multi-unit rack
  • Page 53 – Connect the Workstation to the Switch; . With this method, you can manage the switch with; Figure 4-2. Ethernet and Serial Cable Connections
  • Page 54 – Configure the Workstation; ”Install; Setting the Workstation IP Address for Ethernet Connections
  • Page 55 – OK; specifies port 0 on the workstation.
  • Page 56 – Install SANsurfer Switch Manager; SANsurfer Management Suite Disk - Windows Installation; SANbox Switch
  • Page 57 – SANsurfer Management Suite Disk - Linux Installation
  • Page 58 – SANsurfer Management Suite Disk - Solaris Installation
  • Page 59 – SANsurfer Switch Manager Installation Disk - Linux Installation; Open an xterm or other terminal window.
  • Page 60 – Start SANsurfer Switch Manager; SANsurfer; from Start menu, depending on how you installed the; Open Configuration Wizard
  • Page 61 – In the Initial Start dialog, click the; Connect the Switch to AC Power; For 125 Volt electrical service, the cable must be rated at 10
  • Page 63 – ”Heartbeat LED Blink Patterns” on page 5-2
  • Page 64 – Configure the Switch
  • Page 65 – Choose the; Start; and; HyperTerminal; Select the connection you created earlier and choose the; ”Set Setup Command” on; Cable Devices to the Switch
  • Page 66 – Install Firmware; ”Using SANsurfer Switch Manager to
  • Page 67 – Using SANsurfer Switch Manager to Install Firmware; Load Firmware; Using the CLI to Install Firmware
  • Page 68 – Using FTP and the CLI to Install Firmware; switchname
  • Page 70 – Powering Down a Switch; ”Shutdown
  • Page 71 – Section 5; Diagnostics/Troubleshooting; POST Diagnostics; Internal data loopback test on all ports
  • Page 72 – Heartbeat LED Blink Patterns; Internal Firmware Failure Blink Pattern
  • Page 73 – Configuration File System Error Blink Pattern; ”Recovering a
  • Page 76 – Logged-In LED Indications; Logging in - Flashes at roughly once per second as shown in; Logging In
  • Page 78 – Excessive Port Errors
  • Page 79 – ”Show Config Command” on page B-70
  • Page 81 – Input Power LED Is Extinguished
  • Page 82 – Recovering a Switch
  • Page 83 – Maintenance – Exit
  • Page 84 – logfile; Remake Filesystem
  • Page 85 – Maintenance – Show Firmware Versions
  • Page 87 – Appendix A; Specifications; Section 2 General Description; Fabric Specifications; Fibre Channel Classes of Service .. Classes 2 and 3
  • Page 88 – Maintainability
  • Page 89 – cable
  • Page 90 – Environmental; Temperature
  • Page 91 – Regulatory Certifications; SANmark®
  • Page 93 – Appendix B; Logging On to a Switch; ”Commands” on
  • Page 95 – Default; Backing up and Restoring Switch Configurations; configdata
  • Page 96 – ”Set
  • Page 97 – Commands; The command syntax is as follows:; command; The; Command; is followed by one or more keywords. Consider the following rules; Keystroke
  • Page 98 – Monitoring Commands
  • Page 99 – Admin Command; Authority; Admin; Syntax; admin; Keywords; Opens the admin session.; cancel; The following example shows how to open and close an Admin session:
  • Page 100 – Alias Command; Admin session for all keywords except List and Members; alias; list
  • Page 102 – Config Command; ”Set Config Command” on; Admin session for all keywords except List; activate; Creates a file named
  • Page 103 – restore; save
  • Page 105 – Date Command; Admin session except to display the date.; date; The following is an example of the Date command:
  • Page 106 – Fallback Command; Admin session; fallback; The following is an example of the Fallback command:
  • Page 107 – Hardreset Command; ”Set Log Command” on page B-44; hardreset; To reset the switch without a power-on self test, refer to the
  • Page 108 – Help Command; None; help; all; Examples; The following is an example of the Help Config command:; The following is an example of the Help Config Edit command:
  • Page 109 – History Command; history; Use the History command to provide context for the ! command:; The following is an example of the History command:
  • Page 110 – Hotreset Command; ”Set Log; hotreset; No port in the fabric is in the diagnostic state.
  • Page 111 – Image Command; Manages and installs switch firmware.; image; cleanup; Displays the list of image files that reside on the switch.; Use the Hotreset command to perform a non-disruptive activation.
  • Page 112 – Lip Command; Reinitializes the specified loop port.; The number of the port to be reinitialized.; The following is an example of the Lip command:
  • Page 113 – Passwd Command; Changes a user account’s password.; The following is an example of the Passwd command:
  • Page 114 – Ping Command; ping; The IP address of the switch to query.; The following is an example of a successful Ping command:
  • Page 115 – Ps Command; Displays current system process information.; ps; The following is an example of the Ps command:
  • Page 116 – Quit Command; Closes the Telnet session.; You can also enter Control-D to close the Telnet session.
  • Page 117 – Reset Command; reset; config
  • Page 118 – system; for system configuration default values.; zoning; Parameter
  • Page 120 – Table B-5. Port Threshold Alarm Configuration Defaults
  • Page 123 – Set Command; Sets a variety of switch parameters.; set; ”Set Config Command” on page B-33
  • Page 124 – The following examples enables and disables the beacon:
  • Page 125 – Set Config Command; ”Config Command” on page B-10; Admin session and a Config Edit session; set config; port; describes the port parameters.; describes the port parameters.
  • Page 128 – switch; describes the Set Config Switch
  • Page 129 – threshold
  • Page 130 – Table B-11. Set Config Threshold Parameters
  • Page 132 – The following is an example of the Set Config Port command:
  • Page 133 – The following is an example of the Set Config Switch command:
  • Page 135 – The following is an example of the Set Config Zoning command.
  • Page 136 – Set Log Command; set log; archive; clear; Clears all log entries.
  • Page 138 – stop; Stops logging of events.
  • Page 139 – Set Port Command; Admin session except for the Clear keyword.; Specifies the port. Ports are numbered beginning with 0.; Sends a Loop Port Enable (LPE) to all ALPAs on the arbitrated loop.
  • Page 141 – Set Setup Command; set setup; snmp; describes the SNMP fields. For each parameter, enter a new value or; Entry
  • Page 142 – Table B-14. System Configuration Settings
  • Page 144 – The following is an example of the Set Setup SNMP command:
  • Page 146 – The following is an example of the Set Setup System command:
  • Page 147 – Show Command; show; about
  • Page 149 – Displays performance information for all ports. Refer to the
  • Page 151 – post log; ”Show Setup Command” on page B-78; steering
  • Page 152 – Table B-16. Switch Operational Parameters
  • Page 154 – topology; Displays all connected devices.; users; The following is an example of the Show Chassis command:; The following is an example of the Show Domains command:; The following is an example of the Show Fabric command:
  • Page 155 – The following is an example of the Show FDMI command:
  • Page 156 – The following is an example of the Show NS (local domain) command:
  • Page 157 – The following is an example of the Show Interface command:
  • Page 158 – The following is an example of the Show Port command:
  • Page 159 – The following is an example of the Show Switch command:
  • Page 160 – The following is an example of the Show Topology command for port 1:
  • Page 161 – The following is an example of the Show Version command:
  • Page 162 – Show Config Command; show config
  • Page 163 – The following is an example of the Show Config Switch command:
  • Page 164 – The following is an example of the Show Config Zoning command:
  • Page 165 – Show Log Command; show log; component
  • Page 166 – The following is an example of the Show Log Component command:
  • Page 167 – The following is an example of the Show Log Options command:; The following is an example of the Show Log command:
  • Page 168 – Show Perf Command
  • Page 169 – The following is an example of the Show Perf command:; The following is an example of the Show Perf Byte command:
  • Page 170 – Show Setup Command; show setup; mfg
  • Page 171 – The following is an example of the Show Setup Snmp command:
  • Page 172 – The following is an example of the Show Setup System command:
  • Page 173 – Shutdown Command; shutdown; When the shutdown is complete, the Heartbeat LED is extinguished.
  • Page 174 – Test Command; ”Set Command” on page B-31; test
  • Page 175 – To run an internal loopback test, enter the following:
  • Page 177 – Uptime Command; uptime; The following is an example of the Uptime command:
  • Page 178 – User Command; Administers and displays user accounts.; user; accounts; A switch can have a maximum of 15 user accounts.; edit
  • Page 179 – The following is an example of the User Accounts command:; The following is an example of the User Add command:
  • Page 181 – Whoami Command; whoami; The following is an example of the Whoami command:
  • Page 182 – Zone Command; Manages zones and zone membership on a switch.; Admin session and a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the; zone; Alias name
  • Page 184 – The following is an example of the Zone List command:; The following is an example of the Zone Members command:
  • Page 185 – The following is an example of the Zone Zonesets command:
  • Page 186 – Zoneset Command; Manages zone sets and component zones across the fabric.; zoneset; active
  • Page 187 – Only one zone set can be active at one time.; The following is an example of the Zoneset Active command:
  • Page 188 – Zoning Command; ”Zone Command” on page B-90; Opens a Zoning Edit session.
  • Page 189 – limits; . This keyword does not require an Admin session.; The following is an example of the Zoning Edit command:
  • Page 190 – The following is an example of the Zoning Limits command:
  • Page 191 – The following is an example of the Zoning List command:
  • Page 193 – Arbitrated Loop Physical Address
  • Page 195 – Field Replaceable Unit
  • Page 197 – Zone Set
  • Page 199 – Index; Numerics
  • Page 201 – name server
  • Page 203 – SANsurfer Switch Manager installation
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