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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide Glossary-1
Publication Number: 53-0000522-09
Glossary
A
Advanced
Fabric
Services,
Brocade
A Brocade proprietary feature.
Advanced
Performance
Monitoring,
Brocade
A Brocade proprietary feature.
Advanced
Zoning,
Brocade
A Brocade proprietary feature.
AL_PA Arbitrated-loop physical address. A unique 8-bit value assigned during loop initialization to a port in an
arbitrated loop. Alternately, “arbitrated-loop parameters.”
alias A logical grouping of elements in a fabric. An alias is a collection of port numbers and connected
devices, used to simplify the entry of port numbers and WWNs when creating zones.
arbitrated loop A shared 100-Mbit/sec Fibre Channel transport structured as a loop. Can support up to 126 devices and
one fabric attachment. See also topology.
area number In Brocade Fabric OS v4.0 and above, ports on a switch are assigned a logical area number. Port area
numbers can be viewed by entering the switchShow command. They are used to define the operative
port for many Fabric OS commands: for example, area numbers can be used to define the ports within
an alias or zone.
authentication The process of verifying that an entity in a fabric (such as a switch) is what it claims to be.
B
Basic User
mode
A switch configuration that is set from the EZSwitchSetup CD. If Basic User mode is enabled, then
entering the switch IP address in a browser window launches Web Tools EZ instead of Web Tools.
Basic User mode is supported only on SilkWorm 200E and 3250 switches.
BB_Credit Buffer-to-buffer credit. The number of frames that can be transmitted to a directly connected recipient
or within an arbitrated loop. Determined by the number of receive buffers available.
beacon A tool in which all of the port LEDs on a switch are set to flash from one side of the switch to the other,
to enable identification of an individual switch in a large fabric. A switch can be set to beacon by a CLI
command or through Brocade Web Tools.