HP StorageWorks 2.140 Director Switch User Manual
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parameters, such as preferred domain ID (1 through 31), Domain RSCNs, and Suppress
RSCNs on Zone Set Activations. In addition, you can also enable the rerouting delay feature.
See ”
” on page 94 for more information.
• Select Fabric Parameters to display the Configure Fabric Parameters dialog box, which
allows you to set parameters for fabric operation. In this dialog box, you can set the resource
allocation time-out value (R_A_TOV) and error detect time-out value (E_D_TOV) in
tenth-of-a-second increments. You can also set other fabric operating parameters, such as
switch priority level (Principal, Default, or Never Principal) and interop mode. You
must, however, take the switch off line through the Set Online State dialog box to configure
these parameters. See ”
” on page 94 for more information.
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Preferred Path—Configures an ISL between switches and directors. The ISL will consist of the
source port of the switch being configured, the exit port of the same switch, and the domain ID
of the destination switch. Each switch must be configured for its part of the desired path for
optimal performance. For proper multi-hop Preferred Path operation, you may need to configure
Preferred Paths for all switches along the desired path. For more details about this feature, see
Exporting the configuration report
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SANTegrity Authentication—Displays the Configure SANtegrity Authentication dialog box.
This dialog box contains five tabs:
• Users—Allows you to set up users who access the Edge Switch from CLI and web interfaces.
• Software—Allows you to set up software applications that communicate with the Edge
Switch through the API, and set up OSMS authentication.
• Devices—Allows you to set device-to-device authentication parameters. The Devices tab is
preferred path PFE key enabled. If a proper PFE key is not provided, the Devices tab is not
accessible. See the HP StorageWorks Director Element Manager user guide for more
information.
• IP Access Control—Allows you to setup IP addresses that can manage the Edge Switch.
• Radius Servers—Allows you to set Radius server parameters that the Edge Switch uses to
communicate the authentication information to the designated Radius servers.
For information about using each of these tabs, see the online Help.
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Switch Binding—This option has two suboptions: Change State and Edit Membership List.
• Change State—Displays the Switch Binding State Change dialog bogusware you can
activate Switch Binding according to a specific connection policy (Restrict E_Ports, Restrict
F_Ports, or Restrict All Ports).
• Edit Membership List—Allows you to create a list of switches and devices that you want to
allow exclusively to attach to director ports. Switch Binding is an optional feature that
requires the SANtegrity Binding feature key. The feature can be installed through the
Configure Feature Key dialog box. For more information, see ”
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Ports—Displays the Configure Ports dialog box. This dialog box has different functions for
FICON Management Style and Open Systems management style.
• FICON Management Style—Enables extended distance buffering for 10km to 100 km,
LIN alerts, and Port Binding for each port.