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McDATA® Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual
Configuring the Switch
Place or remove check marks in the check boxes in this column to 
enable or disable link incident alerts. The factory default is to 
enable LIN alerts.
A link incident causes a yellow attention indicator (triangle) to 
display for the port in the Hardware View and in the alert column 
of the Port List View. Once a LIN occurs, you must acknowledge it 
by selecting the Clear Link Incident Alert option from the 
right-click menu for the port (Hardware View). A description of the 
alert displays in the Link Incident field of the Port Properties dialog 
box (refer to 
If the check boxes in this column are not selected, no link incident 
indicators display in the Hardware View. Also, the Link Incident 
field of the Port Properties dialog box is blank and a link incident is 
recorded in the Link Incident Log. LINs are always logged in the 
Link Incident Log, regardless of the configuration.
If LIN Alerts are enabled, you can receive e-mail notification 
when a LIN occurs. In order to receive e-mail notification, you 
must configure and enable this feature in the EFC Manager 
(Maintenance menu) and enable e-mail notification through the 
Enable E-Mail Notification option on the Product Manager’s 
Maintenance menu. 
For additional information about LIN alerts, refer to
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FAN
Click to display a check mark in the check box and enable Fabric 
Address Notification for loop devices attached to the port. 
Right-click in this column to either clear all FANs for all ports or 
set all FANs for all ports.
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Type
Select each port’s type (G_Port, E_Port, F_Port, Fx_Port, or 
Gx_Port) in this column from the drop-down list. Right-click in 
this column to set all ports to either, E_Ports, F_Ports, Fx_Ports, 
G_Ports, or Gx_Ports.
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Port Binding
Click this check box to display a check mark and enable WWN 
binding for the port. This allows only a specific device to attach to 
the port. This device is specified by the WWN or nickname 
entered into the Bound WWN column. With the check box cleared, 
