FW 08.01.00 McDATA® Sphereon 3032 and 3232 Fabric Switches Installation and Service Manual (620-000155-220, November 2005)

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Using the Element Manager
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General Information
Switch Operating Parameters
Select this option to display the Configure Switch Parameters dialog
box for setting Fibre Channel operating parameters. In this dialog
box, you can set the preferred domain identification (1 to 31) and
make it insistent. You can also enable rerouting delay, domain
register for state change notifications (RSCNs), and Zoning
RSCNs). The switch must be offline to configure preferred
domain ID.
Fabric Operating Parameters
Select this option to display the Configure Fabric Parameters dialog
box for setting fabric operating parameters. In this dialog box,
you can set buffer-to-buffer credit (BB_Credit) from 1 to 60
(default is 16) and the resource allocation time-out value
(R_A_TOV) and error detect time-out value (E_D_TOV) in
tenth-of-a-second increments. In addition, you can set the switch
priority level (Principal, Default, or Never Principal) and the
interoperability modes between McDATA Fabric 1.0, and Open
Fabric 1.0.
The switch must be offline to configure any fabric operating
parameter.
Switch Binding
This submenu provides two options: Change State and Edit
Membership List.
•Selecting Change State displays the Switch Binding State Change
dialog box where you can activate Switch Binding according to a
specific connection policy (Restrict E_Ports, Restrict F_Ports, or
Restrict All Ports).
• Edit Membership List allows you to create a list of switches and
devices that you want to allow exclusively to attach to switch
ports. Switch Binding is an optional feature that requires the
SANtegrity Binding feature key. The feature can be installed
through the Configure Feature Key dialog box.
Ports
Select this option to display the Configure Ports dialog box. This
dialog has different functions in FICON versus Open Systems
management style.