QLogic 8C - Manual

QLogic 8C

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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 5
  • Page 6 – Appendix A Specifications
  • Page 7 – Glossary; Figure; Tables; Table
  • Page 9 – Introduction; Intended Audience
  • Page 10 – Related Materials; The Fibre Channel Standards are available from:
  • Page 11 – Safety Notices
  • Page 12 – Communications Statements; This device may not cause harmful interference, and
  • Page 13 – CE Statement
  • Page 14 – VCCI Class A Statement
  • Page 15 – Laser Safety Information
  • Page 16 – Technical Support; Contact Information; Availability
  • Page 17 – Section 2; General Description; Appendix B
  • Page 18 – Chassis Controls and LEDs; The Reset/Force PROM button shown in; Reset/Force PROM Button; ”Recovering a Switch” on page 5-9
  • Page 19 – Resetting a Switch; To place the switch in force PROM mode, do the following:
  • Page 20 – ”Heartbeat LED Blink; Fibre Channel Ports; Each port has its own Logged-In LED and Activity LED as shown in
  • Page 21 – ”Install SFP Transceivers” on page 4-4; Activity LED; ”Distance” on page 3-6
  • Page 22 – Port Modes; SANbox2-8c switches support the following port modes:; Fabric Ports
  • Page 23 – Translated Loop Port; ”Multiple Chassis Fabrics” on page 3-2
  • Page 24 – The Ethernet port shown in
  • Page 25 – . You can manage the switch through the serial; Figure 2-5. Serial Port and Pin Identification; and identified in; Pin Number
  • Page 26 – Power Supply and Fan; Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • Page 27 – Planning; Devices
  • Page 28 – Multiple Chassis Fabrics; Domain ID
  • Page 29 – Common Topologies
  • Page 30 – Mesh Topology; has the following characteristics:
  • Page 31 – Multistage Topology
  • Page 32 – Performance; Distance
  • Page 33 – Bandwidth; Source Port Rate; Source/Destination Rates
  • Page 34 – Device Access
  • Page 35 – Soft Zones; Soft zone boundaries yield to ACL and VPF zone boundaries.; Access Control List Hard Zones; The ACL zone boundary is secure against inbound traffic.
  • Page 36 – Virtual Private Fabric Hard Zones; VPF zone boundaries supersede both soft and ACL zone boundaries.; Fabric Management
  • Page 37 – Fabric Security; ”Commands” on page B-3
  • Page 38 – Notes
  • Page 39 – Section 4; Installation; Site Requirements; Fabric management workstation; Fabric Management Workstation; Operating voltage requirements are as follows:
  • Page 40 – Environmental Conditions; Operating temperature range:; Installing a Switch
  • Page 41 – Mount the Switch; ”Switch Environmental” on page A-3
  • Page 42 – Install SFP Transceivers; Figure 4-2. SFP Transceiver Installation
  • Page 43 – Connect the Switch to AC Power
  • Page 44 – ”Heartbeat LED Blink Patterns” on page 5-1
  • Page 45 – Connect the Management Workstation to the Switch; . With this method, you can manage the switch with; Figure 4-3. Ethernet and Serial Cable Connections
  • Page 46 – Ethernet Connection; To establish an Ethernet connection, do the following:; Serial Connection; To establish a serial port connection, do the following:
  • Page 47 – Enter the following command at the Linux prompt:; Enter the following command at the Solaris prompt:; Install SANbox Manager
  • Page 48 – SANbox Manager Installation for Windows; On the start page, choose the SANbox Switch Software button.
  • Page 49 – SANbox Manager Installation for Linux; Open an xterm or other terminal window.; Enter the following command:
  • Page 50 – SANbox Manager Installation for Solaris; Right-click the to open the Workspace Menu.; Point to and select Files, then select File Manager.
  • Page 51 – Configure the Switch; Appendix B Command Line Interface
  • Page 52 – Configure the Ports; Cable Devices to the Switch; ”Using SANbox Manager to Install Firmware”
  • Page 53 – ”Using FTP and; Using SANbox Manager to Install Firmware; To install firmware using SANbox Manager, do the following:; Choose the Close button to close the Firmware Upload window.; Using the CLI to Install Firmware; Enter the following account name and password:
  • Page 54 – Using FTP and the CLI to Install Firmware
  • Page 55 – Close the FTP session.; Open an Admin session to acquire the necessary authority.; Powering Down a Switch; ”Shutdown
  • Page 57 – Diagnostics/Troubleshooting; POST Diagnostics; Internal data loopback test on all ports; Heartbeat LED Blink Patterns
  • Page 58 – To recreate the configuration file, do the following:
  • Page 59 – or
  • Page 60 – Open an admin session to acquire the necessary authority.
  • Page 61 – Logged-In LED Indications; Logging in - Flashes at roughly once per second as shown in; Logging In
  • Page 62 – describes the; Isolation Cause
  • Page 63 – Chassis Diagnostics; Chassis diagnostics are indicated by the chassis LEDs as shown in; Over Temperature LED is Illuminated
  • Page 64 – Input Power LED Is Extinguished
  • Page 65 – Recovering a Switch
  • Page 66 – Force PROM – Exit; Force PROM – Reset Network Config; for the default network configuration
  • Page 67 – Force PROM – Reset Password File
  • Page 69 – Appendix A; Specifications; Section 2 General Description; Switch Specifications; Fibre Channel Classes of Service .. Classes 2 and 3 connectionless
  • Page 70 – Switch Maintainability; cable
  • Page 71 – Switch Dimensions; Temperature
  • Page 72 – Switch Regulatory Certifications; surfaces
  • Page 73 – Agreement
  • Page 75 – Command Line Interface; Logging On to a Switch; ”Commands” on
  • Page 76 – Command Syntax; The command syntax is as follows:; command; Commands and keywords are lowercase and case sensitive.
  • Page 77 – Commands; The command set provides for User and Admin authority levels.; User Authority Commands
  • Page 78 – Admin Command; ”Set Setup Command” on page B-37; Authority; Admin; Syntax; admin; Keywords; The following example shows how to open and close an Admin session:
  • Page 79 – Alias Command; alias
  • Page 81 – Config Command; ”Set Config Command” on; Admin for all keywords except List; config
  • Page 83 – Date Command; Admin to change the date User to display the date.; date; The following is an example of the Date command:
  • Page 84 – Fallback Command; fallback; The following is an example of the Fallback command:
  • Page 85 – Help Command; User; The following is an example of the Help Set command:
  • Page 86 – History Command; history; Use the History command to provide context for the ! command:; Examples; The following is an example of the History command:
  • Page 87 – Image Command; Manages and installs switch firmware.; image
  • Page 88 – Lip Command; Reinitializes the specified loop port.; The following is an example of the Lip command:
  • Page 89 – Passwd Command; Changes a user account’s password.; Admin to change another account’s password User to change your own.; The following is an example of the Passwd command:
  • Page 90 – Ps Command; Displays current system process information.; ps; The following is an example of the Ps command:
  • Page 91 – Quit Command; Closes the Telnet session.
  • Page 92 – Reset Command; reset
  • Page 93 – Parameter
  • Page 94 – Table B-4. Alarm Threshold Configuration Defaults
  • Page 97 – Set Command; set; ”Set Config Command” on page B-25
  • Page 98 – ”Set Port Command” on; The following examples enables and disables the beacon:
  • Page 99 – Set Config Command; Admin authority and a Config Edit session; set config; describes the port parameters.
  • Page 103 – The following is an example of the Set Config Port command:
  • Page 104 – The following is an example of the Set Config Switch command:
  • Page 105 – The following is an example of the Set Config Threshold command:
  • Page 106 – The following is an example of the Set Config Zoning command.
  • Page 107 – Set Log Command; set log
  • Page 110 – Set Port Command
  • Page 111 – Set Setup Command; set setup; describes the SNMP fields. For each parameter, enter a new value or; Entry
  • Page 112 – Table B-12. System Configuration Settings
  • Page 113 – The following is an example of the Set Setup SNMP command:
  • Page 114 – The following is an example of the Set Setup System command:
  • Page 115 – Show Command; show; ”Show Config
  • Page 116 – ”Show Log Command” on page B-54
  • Page 119 – ”Show Setup Command” on page B-58
  • Page 120 – The following is an example of the Show Chassis command:; The following is an example of the Show Domains command:
  • Page 121 – The following is an example of the Show Setup SNMP command:
  • Page 122 – The following is an example of the Show Topology command:
  • Page 123 – The following is an example of the Show Port command:
  • Page 124 – The following is an example of the Show Switch command:
  • Page 125 – Show Config Command; show config; The following is an example of the Show Config Port command:
  • Page 126 – The following is an example of the Show Config Switch command:
  • Page 127 – The following is an example of the Show Config Zoning command:
  • Page 128 – Show Log Command; show log; The following is an example of the Show Log Component command
  • Page 129 – The following is an example of the Show Log Options command:
  • Page 130 – Show Perf Command; show perf
  • Page 131 – The following is an example of the Show Perf Byte command:
  • Page 132 – Show Setup Command; Displays the current SNMP and system settings.; show setup; The following is an example of the Show Setup Mfg command:
  • Page 133 – The following is an example of the Show Setup System command:
  • Page 134 – Shutdown Command; shutdown
  • Page 135 – Test Command; ”Set Command” on page B-23; test; Insert the loopback plug into the SFP on the selected port.
  • Page 136 – Choose type of port loopback test to run:
  • Page 138 – Uptime Command; uptime; The following is an example of the Uptime command:
  • Page 139 – User Command; Administers or displays user accounts.; Admin. The List keyword is available with User authority.; user; The following is an example of the User Accounts command:
  • Page 140 – The following is an example of the User Add command:; The following is an example of the User Delete command:
  • Page 141 – Whoami Command; whoami; The following is an example of the Whoami command:
  • Page 142 – Zone Command; Admin authority within a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the; zone; Alias name
  • Page 144 – The following is an example of the Zone List command:; The following is an example of the Zone Members command:
  • Page 145 – The following is an example of the Zone Zonesets command:
  • Page 146 – Zoneset Command; Manages zone sets and zone set membership across the fabric.; zoneset
  • Page 147 – Only one zone set can be active at one time.; The following is an example of the Zoneset Active command:; The following is an example of the Zoneset List command:
  • Page 148 – The following is an example of the Zoneset Zones command:
  • Page 149 – Zoning Command; ”Zone Command” on page B-68; zoning; Checksum for the zoning database
  • Page 150 – The following is an example of the Zoning Edit command:
  • Page 153 – Arbitrated Loop Physical Address
  • Page 155 – Simple Network Management Protocol
  • Page 157 – Index; bandwidth
  • Page 158 – Ethernet
  • Page 161 – Virtual Private Fabric 3-10
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