Guidelines - Allied Telesis AT-SBx81CFC400 Installation Manual

Chapter 3: AT-SBx81CFC400 Controller Fabric Card

Guidelines

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Here are some of the functions of the controller card:
 Chassis Management
and configure the parameter settings on the Ethernet line cards.
The controller card supports local management sessions through
the Console RS-232 port and remote management sessions with
Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH), or SNMP clients on workstations on
your network.
 Management software
management software as well as the management software for the
Ethernet line cards. It downloads the firmware to the cards over the
backplane in the chassis when the chassis is powered on or reset,
as part of the initialization process.
 Configuration Settings
configuration database in which it stores its own settings as well as
the settings of the Ethernet line cards. When a change is made to
a configuration setting on a line card, the controller card transmits
the change over the backplane to the appropriate line card and
updates its configuration database. The database is retained even
when the chassis is powered off because controller card stores it in
nonvolatile memory. You may download the database to a
management workstation or network server to maintain a history of
configurations or to transfer a configuration to multiple chassis.
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Backplane Control
line cards use the backplane to forward traffic to each other when
the ingress and egress ports of packets are located on different
cards. The backplane is managed by the controller card. The
bandwidth of the backplane depends on the number of controller
cards in the chassis. Each line card slot has up to 40Gbps of
backplane bandwidth when the chassis has one AT-
SBx81CFC400 Controller Fabric Card and up to 80Gbps with two
controller cards.
Here are the guidelines to the controller card:
 The chassis must have at least one controller card. The line cards
do not forward traffic if the chassis does not have at least one
controller card.
 The chassis can have either one or two controller cards.
 Two controller cards are recommended for redundancy and to
increase the per slot backplane bandwidth from 40 to 80Gbps.
 The controller cards are installed in slots 5 and 6 in the chassis.
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The controller card is used to monitor
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The controller card stores its own
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The controller card also maintains a
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The chassis has a backplane. The Ethernet