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Glossary – HP M-series HA-Fabric Manager Software User Manual

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Glossary

Active firmware

The firmware image on the switch that is in use

Active zone set

The zone set that defines the current zoning for the fabric

Activity LED

A port LED that indicates when frames are entering or leaving the port

Administrative state 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 CLI.

AL_PA

Arbitrated Loop Physical Address

Alarm

A message generated by the switch that specifically requests attention. Alarms are
generated by several switch processes. Some alarms can be configured.

Arbitrated loop

An FC topology where ports use arbitration to establish a point-to-point circuit

Arbitrated Loop

Physical Address

(AL_PA)

A unique one-byte value assigned during loop initialization to each NL_Port on a
loop

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

Auto Save

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

BootP

A type of network server

Buffer credit

A measure of port buffer capacity equal to one frame

Cascade topology

A fabric in which the switches are connected in series. If you connect the last switch
back to the first switch, you create a cascade-with-a-loop topology.

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

Class 2 service

A service which multiplexes frames at frame boundaries to or from one or more
N_Ports wit h acknowledgment provided

Class 3 service

A service which multiplexes frames at frame boundaries to or from one or more
N_Ports without acknowledgment

Configured zone sets The zone sets stored on a switch.
DefaultZone

Enables (True) or disables (False) communication among ports/devices that are not
defined in the active zone set or when there is no active zone set. This parameter
applies only when interop mode is set to McDATA Fabric Mode.

Device Security

A component of fabric security that provides for the authorization and
authentication of devices that attach to a switch through the use of groups and
security sets

Domain ID

User defined number that identifies the switch in the fabric

EFCM

Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager

Element Manager

McDATA Element Manager. Switch management application that is accessible
through the High Availability Fabric Manager (HAFM).

Event log

Log of messages describing events that occur in the fabric

Expansion port

E_Port that connects to another FC-SW-2 compliant switch

Fabric database

The set of fabrics that have been opened during a McDATA Web Server session

Fabric management

switch

The switch through which the fabric is managed (the switch connected to the
Ethernet network)

Fabric name

User defined name associated with the file that contains user list data for the fabric

Fabric port

An F_Port

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