Managing The 2109 Model F16; Diagnostics; Diagnostic Environment - IBM F16 User Manual

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Managing the 2109 Model F16

Diagnostics

Diagnostic environment

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IBM TotalStorage SAN Switch: 2109 Model F16 User's Guide
wide area network (WAN). With this feature, you can stage and manage data
transfers across a pair of Fibre Channel switches that are connected to a pair of
CNT open system gateways.
QuickLoop (request price quote)
QuickLoop enables servers with Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop private loop host
bus adapters to communicate with Fibre Channel storage devices through IBM
TotalStorage SAN Switches.
For more information, see the Brocade QuickLoop User's Guide.
Advanced Security feature
The Advanced Security Feature provides customizable security restrictions through
local and remote management channels on a switch fabric. The feature allows you
to create policies to customize fabric management access and to specify which
switches and devices can join the fabric, view statistics related to attempted policy
violations, manage the fabric-wide Secure Fabric OS parameters through a single
switch, create temporary passwords specific to a login account and switch, and
enable and disable Secure Fabric OS as desired.
Note: To activate these features, go to the following Web site:
www.ibm.com/storage/key/
For more information, see the Brocade Secure Fabric OS User's Guide.
The following management interfaces allow you to monitor fabric topology, port
status, physical status, and other information to aid in system debugging and
performance analysis:
v Command-line interface (CLI) through a Telnet connection
v Advanced Web Tools
v SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)
v SNMP applications
You can use all these management methods either in-band (Fibre Channel) or
out-of-band (Ethernet), except for SES, which can be used for in-band only.
For more information about these management interfaces, see the Brocade Fabric
OS Procedures Guide.
The 2109 Model F16 switch supports a set of power-on self tests (POSTs), as well
as tests that you can invoke by using Telnet commands. These diagnostics are
used during the manufacturing process as well as for fault isolation of the product in
your installation.
Most diagnostics are written to run in the VxWorks environment. However, as
VxWorks does not run without a working SDRAM, a SDRAM/boot EEPROM test is
run as part of the pre-VxWorks startup code to verify that the basic
processor-connected memories are functioning properly.