User’s Guide Enterprise Fabric Suite
5800V Series Fibre Channel Switches
Glossary-2 59266-01 B
Certificate Request File
A file is generated on the switch and sent
to the customer's certificate authority
vendor to be authenticated.
CIM
Common Information Model
class 2 service
A service that multiplexes frames at frame
boundaries to or from one or more
N_Ports with acknowledgment provided.
class 3 service
A service that 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,
excluding the active zone set.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Default Visibility
Zoning parameter that determines the
level of communication among
ports/devices when there is no active zone
set.
domain ID
User-defined number that identifies the
switch in the fabric.
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 opened during an Enter-
prise Fabric Suite session.
Fabric name
User-defined name associated with the file
that contains user list data for the fabric.
Fabric port
An F_Port
Fabric view file
A file containing a set of fabrics that were
opened and saved during a previous
Enterprise Fabric Suite session.
Fan Fail LED
An LED that indicates that a cooling fan in
the switch is operating below standard.
FC
Fibre Channel
FCID
Fibre Channel address
FDISC
Fabric discovery. Discover F_Port Service
Parameters.
FDMI
Fabric Device Management Interface
flash memory
Memory on the switch that contains the
switch control firmware.
frame
Data unit consisting of a start-of-frame
(SOF) delimiter, header, data payload,
CRC, and an end-of-frame (EOF) delim-
iter.
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