FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA SANpilot User Manual (620-000160-230, April 2005)

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McDATA® Sphereon 3032 and 3232 Fabric Switches Installation and Service Manual

General Information

In FICON management style, use the dialog box to enable

extended distance buffering for 10 to 100 km, link incident (LIN)

alerts, and port binding for each port.

In Open Systems management style, for each port you can

provide a name, block or unblock operation, configure extended

distance buffering for 10 to 100 km, enable LIN alerts for each

port, define a type (G, F, and E), and enable port binding.

NOTE: Ports are automatically configured as G_Ports if no device is

connected, F_Ports if a device is connected, and E_Ports if a switch is

connected.

In both styles, you can enable the rerouting delay feature.

Addresses

FICON management style only. Select from two suboptions for

active and stored addresses.

Active Addresses: Displays the Configure-Addresses - “Active”

dialog box. Use this dialog box to configure a name, blocked or

unblocked state, and prohibited and allowed connection

attributes for a port.

Stored Addresses: Displays the Address Configuration Library. Use

this dialog box to activate, modify, delete, and modify existing

address configurations created through the Active Addresses

dialog box.

SNMP Agent

Select this option to display the Configure SNMP dialog box. Use

this dialog box to configure network addresses and community

names for up to six SNMP trap recipients. Also authorize write

permissions to enable SNMP management stations to modify

writable MIB variables. In addition, you can enable authorization

traps to be sent to management stations when unauthorized

stations request access to switch SNMP data.

Management Server

Select this option to display either the Configure Open Systems

Management Server or Configure FICON Management Server dialog

box, depending on which feature (if any) is enabled for the

switch. Use this to configure a FICON or open systems inband

management program to function with the switch. To use these