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ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation And Operation Manual

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FibreBridge
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Installation and Operation Manual
© 2001 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective
holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written
permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.
8/2001
Document Control Number: PRMA-0268-000

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  • Page 1 Installation and Operation Manual © 2001 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Fibre Channel is a key technology for storage ...1 Chapter 2 ATTO FibreBridge supports diverse SAN needs ...3 Chapter 3 ATTO FibreBridge 1190E characteristics ...5 Chapter 4 How to connect SCSI devices to SCSI ports ...7 Chapter 5 How to connect the Fibre Channel port ...8 Chapter 6 ATTO FibreBridge addressing ...9...
  • Page 4 Chapter 7.1.3 Diagnostic commands ...19 ClearEvent DispEvent DisplayEvent EccLog ErrorLog IdentifyFibreBridge LogEvent ParityLog Performance Chapter 7.1.4 SCSI configuration commands ...21 ScsiInitID ScsiPortBusSpeed ScsiPortList ScsiPortResetOnStartup ScsiPortSelTimeout ScsiPortSyncTransfer ScsiPortTaggedQueuing ScsiPortUltra2 ScsiPortWideTransfer ScsiTargets ScsiTermination Chapter 7.1.5 Fibre Channel configuration commands ...23 FcAck0 FcClass2 FcConnMode FcFairArb FcFrameLength...
  • Page 5 Examples of command usage ..iii Appendix B Standards and compliances ..vii Appendix C Fibre Channel Accessories ..ix Appendix D How to Contact ATTO Technology, Inc..xi FibreBridgeModel FirmwareRestart SerialNumber MaxEnclTempAlrm MinEnclTempAlrm ScsiPortReset...

  • Page 6: Fibre Channel Is A Key Technology For Storage

    Software stored in read-only memory (ROM) or programmable ROM (PROM). Firmware is often responsible for the behavior of a system when it is first switched 1 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual A SAN is a shared storage architecture connecting computers and storage devices for online data access.
  • Page 7 Term Definition F_port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a N_port may attach FL-port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a NL_port may attach in an arbitrated loop hot swapping Components are removed and replaced while the unit is running, with power to either the component or a device connected to the unit.

  • Page 8: Atto Fibrebridge Supports Diverse San Needs

    Connect the FibreBridge to your SAN: attach short wave optical cables into the Fibre Channel port on the FibreBridge. (See Chapter 5) 3 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual have the most up-to-date version of the firmware, visit the ATTO Technology website, www.attotech.com.
  • Page 9 Exhibit 2-1 The following chart provides an overview of the features and capabilities for the newest FibreBridge models. Contact your authorized ATTO representative or visit ATTO Technology’s website, www.attotech.com, for additional information. ATTO FibreBridge 1180E FC Ports FC port number...

  • Page 10: Atto Fibrebridge 1190E Characteristics

    3 ATTO FibreBridge 1190E characteristics The ATTO FibreBridge 1190E is a 1 x 2 (one Fibre Channel port with two SCSI ports) Fibre Channel to SCSI bridge for high throughput enterprise environments designed for mission-critical applications. The FibreBridge 1190E features a small form...
  • Page 11 ➔ Ready: should light after power has been applied; indicates the board has completed the initialization process without any failures and is ready to handle data transfers. Exhibit 3-2 FibreBridge 1190E board layout. SCSl activity Ethernet / Serial Dual stacked Port Connector...

  • Page 12: How To Connect Scsi Devices To Scsi Ports

    JBODs, RAIDs, tape, CD and DVD drives, changers, libraries and magneto optical drives. 7 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual To connect SCSI devices to the ATTO FibreBridge: Connect a VHDCI SCSI connector from the SCSI device to a port on the FibreBridge 1190.

  • Page 13: How To Connect The Fibre Channel Port

    Arbitrated Loop. Fibre Channel technology offers a variety of cabling options including standard copper, equalized copper, multimode fiber optic, and single mode fiber optic. The FibreBridge 1190E uses an MIA compliant DB-9 or Cable length Cable type <15 meters unequalized copper ≥...

  • Page 14: Atto Fibrebridge Addressing

    Company ID Name Format Byte Value 9 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) assigns each manufacturer a unique Company ID. The Device ID field contains a unique value assigned by ATTO Technology to every Fibre Channel product produced by ATTO Technology.
  • Page 15 FibreBridge. The FibreBridge SCSI ports must be set to different SCSI IDs than the devices on the bus. SCSI devices are mapped manually to desired Fibre Channel port and Fibre Channel LUNs. Manual mapping allows you to maximize the efficiency and performance of your SCSI devices while allowing great flexibility.

  • Page 16: How To Access Atto Fibrebridge Services

    Telnet. The ATTO FibreBridge should first be configured for the network using the RS-232 port to establish the correct IP address. 11 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual through an in-band Fibre Channel link using in-band SCSI ➔ In-band SCSI over Fibre Channel ➔...
  • Page 17 To connect via Telnet: Supply the IP address to the Telnet program. The local echo should be set to on if the Telnet software supports it. Use Vt100 for communication. Verify that the bridge can be accessed on the local Ethernet by using the Ping utility. On most systems, type ping <IP Address>.

  • Page 18: Command Line Interface Use And Guidance

    Screen messages, also called returns, may be either terse, with just the current information, or verbose, with labels and the current information. If you want the verbose mode, type set VerboseMode enabled. 13 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual , also known as FibreBridge Services, ➔...
  • Page 19 SCSI target ID (0 <= st <= 15) Exhibit 7.1-3 POST information ATTO FibreBridge 1190 (c) 2001 ATTO Technology, Incorporated. Firmware version 003B release date Apr 30 2001, 09:47:09 Build 003B Power-On Self-Test Completion Status: GOOD 64 Megabytes of RAM Installed.

  • Page 20: General Use Commands

    Limits: enabled or disabled Actions: set VerboseMode [enabled | disabled] 15 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual Commands generally follow a standard format: [Get | Set] Command [Parameter 1 | Parameter 2] followed by the return or enter key.

  • Page 21: Mapping Commands

    7.1.2 Mapping commands Access to SCSI devices is via Fibre Port and Fibre LUN addresses mapped to SCSI bus, target and LUNs. The factory default mapping is shown in Appendix A. CLI commands are used to modify the mapping. The RouteXxxxx and AutoMap commands provide the mechanism to map Fibre Channel Port/LUN to SCSI bus/target/LUN.

  • Page 22: Fchard

    Going Offline: RouteOffline has been issued, but queued commands are underway; becomes Offline when all queued commands are complete; new SCSI commands sent to a going offline device are rejected Action: none 17 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual Default: enabled, or hard addressing Information: get FcHard Default: 0 <...

  • Page 23: Routeoffline

    RouteOffline Sets a route to offline or reports its status as offline or going offline Action: set RouteOffline [fp] [fl] RouteOnline Sets a route to online or reports its status. Limits: if route is not currently mapped, command results in an error message Action: set RouteOnline [fp] [fl] Information: get RouteOffline [fp]...

  • Page 24: Diagnostic Commands

    Contains the ECC error statistics for the FibreBridge since the statistics were last cleared. Set form sets the statistics to zero. Limits: Maximum number of errors reported = 65535 Actions: set EccLog clear 19 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual CLI commands are case insensitive (upper and lower case allowed anywhere).

  • Page 25: Errorlog

    ErrorLog Set form clears ErrorLog since previous error reported. Get form shows error messages since the report was last cleared. Actions: set ErrorLog clear Returns: Error Logs cleared IdentifyFibreBridge Enabling this option causes the Ready LED on the front panel of the FibreBridge to blink until the parameter is disabled. Actions: set IdentifyFibreBridge [enabled|disabled] SaveConfiguration LogEvent...

  • Page 26: Scsi Configuration Commands

    Action: set ScsiPortSyncTransfer [[sb [enabled | disabled] ] SaveConfiguration 21 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual Commands generally follow a standard format: [Get | Set] Command [Parameter 1 | Parameter 2] followed by the return or enter key...

  • Page 27: Scsiporttaggedqueuing

    ScsiPortTaggedQueuing Specifies whether tagged command queuing is allowed on the SCSI port. Limits: [enabled | disabled] Action: set ScsiTaggedQueuing [sb [enabled|disabled]] Information: get ScsiTaggedQueuing [sb] SaveConfiguration ScsiPortUltra2 Specifies whether the selected port supports Ultra2 (LVD) transfers Limits: effective only if specified port is LVD SCSI bus Action: set ScsiPortUltra2 [sb [enabled|disabled ] ] SaveConfiguration ScsiPortWideTransfer...

  • Page 28: Fibre Channel Configuration Commands

    Limits: applies to all Fibre Channel ports Actions: setFcFullDuplex [enabled | disabled] SaveConfiguration 23 ATTO Technology FibreBridge Installation and Operation Manual Commands generally follow a standard format: [Get | Set] Command [Parameter 1 | Parameter 2] followed by the return or enter key...

  • Page 29: Fcinitiator

    FcInitiator Allows FibreBridge to operate as an initiator on the Fibre Channel network, an attribute required for features such as Extended Copy. Actions: set FcInitiator [enabled | disabled] SaveConfiguration FcPortList Returns a list of available Fibre Channel ports and their current status. Limits: valid status values are OK and Failed Actions: none FcSCSIBusyStatus...

  • Page 30: Serial Port Configuration Commands

    Limits: 1 or 2 Actions: set SerialPortStopBits [1 | 2] SaveConfiguration 25 ATTO Technology FibreBridge Installation and Operation Manual Commands generally follow a standard format: [Get | Set] Command [Parameter 1 | Parameter 2] followed by the return or enter key...

  • Page 31: Ethernet Configuration Commands

    7.1.7 Ethernet configuration commands The ethernet configuration commands configure the Ethernet and TCP/IP parameters for FibreBridge models with Ethernet ports. CLI commands are case insensitive (upper and lower case allowed anywhere). EthernetSpeed Sets/displays the current speed of the Ethernet connection. Limits: [ 10 | 100 | Auto ] Actions: set EthernetSpeed xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx SaveConfiguration...

  • Page 32: Maintenance Commands

    Temperature Returns the current internal temperature of the unit in degrees Celsius. Actions: none 27 ATTO Technology FibreBridge Installation and Operation Manual Commands generally follow a standard format: [Get | Set] Command [Parameter 1 | Parameter 2] followed by the return or enter key...

  • Page 33: Zmodem

    Zmodem Allows transfer of a firmware image to or from the FibreBridge using the ZMODEM file transfer protocol. Limits: available only through the RS232 interface WARNING After a firmware image is downloaded to the FibreBridge, the image is placed into flash memory. During this time (about 30 seconds), DO NOT remove power to the FibreBridge or the flash may become corrupted.

  • Page 34: In-Band Cli Using Scsi Over Fibre Channel Port

    The initiator issues a SCSI WriteBuffer (buffer ID = 0) command to the ServicesLUN. A WriteBuffer command must be 29 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual accompanied by an ASCII buffer representing the CLI command string such set FibreBridgeName FB1190...
  • Page 35 ➔ Characters following the NULL character are meaningless. A CHECK_CONDITION, INVALID_PARAMETER_IN_CDB will be Exhibit 7.2-1 The SCSI command process: reserve the FibreBridge, send the command, release the FibreBridge. Initiator/Host Goal: reserve the FibreBridge for an in-band CLI command SCSI cdb: Reserve ServicesLUN Goal: retrieve the FibreBridge temperaure via in-band CLI 1.

  • Page 36: Serverless Backup Support

    The two most common types of Segment Descriptors are “block 31 ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual (disk) to stream (tape)” and “stream (tape) to block (drive)”. The FibreBridge supports “block to block,”...
  • Page 37 To enable serverless backup on the FibreBridge: Access the FibreBridge either through RS- 232 or Ethernet. After the Ready prompt, type set Fcinitiator enabled. Serverless Backup Application Server Serverless Backup Agent Serverless backup in a SAN Exhibit 8-1 Once the server sends a command to the FibreBridge for extended copy, the FibreBridge manages the backup procedure, by-passing the server.

  • Page 38: Chapter 9 Updating Firmware

    FibreBridge until the display returns the Ready prompt. Interrupting the flash process will make your FibreBridge inoperable and you will have to return it to ATTO Technology for repair. 10 Once the download is complete, cycle power on the FibreBridge to invoke the new firmware.
  • Page 39 Index: Command Line Interface commands AutoMap ... 16 ClearEvent ... 19 DispEvent ... 19 DispFcPortDB ... 16 DisplayEvent ... 19 EccLog ... 19 ErrorLog ... 19 EthernetSpeed ... 26 FcAck0 ... 23 FcClass2 ... 23 FcConnMode ... 23 FcFairArb ... 23 FcFrameLength ...

  • Page 40: Examples Of Command Usage

    Ready. get RouteOnline 0 3 ;fp fl sb st sl On/Offline 0 Online Ready. RouteDisplay 0 3 ii ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual ;fp fl sb st sl On/Offline 0 Online xx xx 0 Reserved xx xx...
  • Page 41 1 Online 0 Online 0 Online 4 xx xx xx 4500 5 xx xx xx Offline 6 xx xx xx Offline 0 30 xx xx xx Offline 0 31 xx xx xx Offline xx xx 0 Reserved xx xx 0 Reserved xx xx 0 Reserved xx xx...
  • Page 42 Setting device offline: FC 1 Lun Setting device offline: FC 2 Lun Setting device offline: FC 2 Lun iv ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual Setting device offline: FC 2 Lun Scanning SCSI bus 0 Scanning SCSI bus 1...
  • Page 43 Ready. RouteDisplay online ;fp fl sb st sl On/Offline 0 Online 0 Online 0 Online 3 xx xx xx 4500 0 Online 0 Online 0 Online 3 xx xx xx 4500 0 Online 0 Online 0 Online 3 xx xx xx 4500 xx xx 0 Reserved xx xx...

  • Page 44: Standards And Compliances

    This Class A digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Regulations. Cet appareil numerique de la classe A respecte toutes les exigences du Reglement sur le materiel brouilleur du Canada. vi ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual...
  • Page 45 European Standards Declaration of Conformity This following statement applies to the ATTO FibreBridge. This device has been tested in the basic operating configuration and found to be compliant with the following European Union standards: Application of Council Directive: 89/336/EEC Standard(s) to which conformity is declared: EN55022, EN50082-1 This Declaration will only be valid when this product is used in conjunction with other CE approved devices and when the entire system is tested to the applicable CE standards and found to be compliant.

  • Page 46: Fibre Channel Accessories

    Appendix C Fibre Channel Accessories The following Fibre Channel accessories are available through ATTO Technology. Contact an ATTO Technology authorized sales representative to order. Embedded FibreBridge 1180 FCBR-1180-ELC Fibre Channel to LVD Ultra2 SCSI Bridge Embedded Board with Copper DB9...
  • Page 47 68-pin “P” / 68-pin fine pitch “P” – 10m CBL-F68E-025 68-pin “P” / 68-pin fine pitch “P” – 25m CBL-F68E-68X 68-pin “P” / 68-pin fine pitch “P” – 16m. CBL-V68E-48 68-pin offset VHDCI to 68-pin VHDCI ix ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual...

  • Page 48: How To Contact Atto Technology, Inc

    155 CrossPoint Parkway Amherst, New York 14068 (716) 691-1999 • voice (716) 691-9353 • fax http://www.attotech.com ATTO Technology can also be reached via e-mail at the following addresses: Sales Support: Technical Support: x ATTO Technology FibreBridge 1190E Installation and Operation Manual sls@attotech.com...

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