HP Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem p-Class - Manual (Page 248)

248 Glossary
Fabric Manager
Optionally licensed HP software. Fabric Manager is a GUI that allows for fabric-wide administration and
management. Switches can be treated as groups, and actions such as firmware downloads can be performed
simultaneously.
fabric name
The unique identifier assigned to a fabric and communicated during login and port discovery.
fabric services
Codes that describe the communication to and from any well-known address.
fabric topology
The arrangement of switches that form a fabric.
Fabric Watch
Optionally licensed HP software. Fabric Watch can be accessed through either the command line or Advanced
Web Tools; it provides the ability to set thresholds for monitoring fabric conditions.
failover
Describes the Core Switch 2/64 process of one CP card passing active status to another CP card. A failover is
nondisruptive.
FAN
Fabric address notification. Retains the AL_PA and fabric address when a loop reinitializes, if the switch supports
FAN.
FC-0
Lowest layer of Fibre Channel transport. Represents physical media.
FC-1
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains the 8b/10b encoding scheme.
FC-2
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles framing and protocol, frame format, sequence and exchange
management, and ordered set usage.
FC-3
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that contains common services used by multiple N_Ports in a node.
FC-4
Layer of Fibre Channel transport that handles standards and profiles for mapping upper-level protocols such as SCSI
and IP onto the Fibre Channel Protocol.
FC-CT
Fibre Channel common transport.
FC-FG
Fibre Channel generic requirements.