Glossary - McDATA 4416 Installation Manual

Fibre channel switch module
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Access Control List
Zone
Active Zone Set
Active Firmware
Activity LED
Administrative State
Alarm
AL_PA
Arbitrated Loop
Arbitrated Loop
Physical Address
(AL_PA)
ASIC
Auto Save
Access Control List zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling
discovery and inbound traffic.
The zone set that defines the current zoning for the fabric.
The firmware image on the switch that is in use.
A port LED that indicates when frames are entering or leaving the port.
State that determines the operating state of the port, I/O blade, or switch. The
configured administrative state is stored in the switch configuration. The
configured administrative state can be temporarily overridden using the
command line interface.
A message generated by the switch that specifically requests attention.
Alarms are generated by several switch processes. Some alarms can be
configured.
Arbitrated Loop Physical Address
A Fibre Channel topology where ports use arbitration to establish a
point-to-point circuit.
A unique one-byte value assigned during loop initialization to each NL_Port
on a loop.
Application Specific Integrated Circuit. A chip designed for a specific
applications, such as a transmission protocol or a computer.
Zoning parameter that determines whether changes to the active zone set that
a switch receives from other switches in the fabric will be saved to permanent
memory on that switch.
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