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Enterprise Operating System Command Line Interface User Manual
Glossary
embedded web
server
With director firmware Version 1.2 (or later) installed, administrators
or operators with a browser-capable PC and an Internet connection
can monitor and manage the director or switch through an embedded
web server interface, called the SANpilot interface. The interface
provides a GUI similar to the Element Manager application, and
supports director configuration, statistics monitoring, and basic
operation.
error-detect time-out
value
E_D_TOV. The time the switch waits for an expected response before
declaring an error condition.
error message Indication that an error has been detected (D). See also information
message; warning message.
Ethernet A widely implemented local area network (LAN) protocol that uses a
bus or star topology and serves as the basis for the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 standard, which
specifies the physical and software layers.
exchange fabric
membership data
An SW_ILS that ensures that merging switches have the same fabric
membership list during initialization.
expansion port E_Port. Physical interface on a Fibre Channel switch within a fabric,
that attaches to an E_Port on another Fibre Channel switch through
an interswitch link (ISL) to form a multiswitch fabric. See also
segmented E_Port.
F
F_Port See fabric port.
fabric Entity that interconnects node ports (N_Ports) and is capable of
routing (switching) Fibre Channel frames, using the destination ID
information in the Fibre Channel frame header accompanying the
frames. A switch is the smallest entity that can function as a complete
switched fabric topology.
fabric binding A security feature that limits the switches that can join a fabric, by
specifying the WWN and Domain ID of the allowed switches in the
fabric membership list.