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Page 1: ...F I B R E C H A N N E L S W I T C H Installation Manual PROFILE FAMILY V I D E O F I L E S E R V E R S 071 0564 04 JULY 2001 ...

Page 2: ... information in this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Grass Valley Group Grass Valley Group assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this publication U S Government Restricted Rights Legend Use duplication or disclosure by the United States Government is ...

Page 3: ...h 12 Connecting Devices to the Switch 12 Cable Lengths 12 Single Switch Fabric 12 Multi Switch Fabric 14 Monitoring Your Switch with NetCentral II 17 SNMP Configuration 18 Monitoring Status 23 Troubleshooting with NetCentral II 25 Figures 1 The Profile Fibre Channel Switch 7 2 The Update FC Microcode window 10 3 Single switch fabric with no loops attached 13 4 A sample two switch fabric 15 5 A sam...

Page 4: ...hour Emergency Hotline 530 478 4148 Contract and warranty customers World Wide Web http www grassvalleygroup com support FTP Site ftp grassvalleygroup com E mail profile users grassvalleygroup com France 01 45 29 73 00 United Kingdom 01628 405830 Germany 49 221 1791 234 Other 44 1753 218 777 Italy 02 25086606 Australia from overseas 02 9888 0100 61 2 9888 0100 Japan 81 3 3448 3111 Korea 82 2 528 5...

Page 5: ...m Fibre Channel switch SilkWorm Hardware Reference Manual This is your primary reference on the installation and initial setup of your specific model of SilkWorm switch It also provides maintenance and repair information BROCADE WEB TOOLS User s Guide This manual describes the Web browser based application that allows you to monitor and administer your Brocade SilkWorm switch Open the Table of Con...

Page 6: ...isted at the front of this manual NOTE Do not contact Brocade Communication Systems directly for support of your Brocade SilkWorm Switch For information on See Installing the switch in a Profile Video Network Installing a Switch in a Profile Video Network beginning on page 7 of this manual SilkWorm Hardware Reference Manual Brocade WEB TOOLS User s Guide Installing the switch in a Media Area Netwo...

Page 7: ...hared bandwidth required by a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Improving the scalability of your Video Network By managing your inter switch connections you can increase the size of your network without the shared bandwidth concerns of a large loop Providing optional multicast capability which lets you move material to several machines at once rather than with several individual transfers Figure 1 sh...

Page 8: ... the Fibre Channel firmware or drivers on Profile XP systems Configuring the Profile system to work with a switch fcconfig s on This step is not required on a Profile XP Avoiding loop configurations in a fabric switched environment Profile System Software Requirements You must install Profile System Software version 2 5 or higher on all Profile systems connected to a Fibre Channel switch You must ...

Page 9: ...witch NOTE All versions of Profile XP Fibre Channel boards have the required firmware for operation with the Profile Fibre Channel Switch You should not perform the following procedure on a Profile XP system Loading Profile Firmware Once you have installed Profile System Software version 2 5 or higher you can load a switch compatible version of firmware onto your Profile Fibre Channel board You mu...

Page 10: ...nnel boards installed in your server You must also install the appropriate Fibre Channel drivers that can use all the features of the new firmware NOTE A Profile Fibre Channel Server consists of an SGI O200 or O2000 system equipped with Fibre Channel boards purchased from Grass Valley Group If your Fibre Channel boards were purchased obtained from another source please ask your supplier about comp...

Page 11: ...nment NOTE Profile XP Media Platforms are pre configured for operation in a fabric switched Fibre Channel Environment You must not perform this procedure on a Profile XP system To configure your Profile Fibre Channel server or any device other than your Profile system refer to the installation manual for that device for instructions To configure your Profile system for use in a Fibre Channel envir...

Page 12: ... the appropriate cable types and GBICs Gigabit Interface Converters for the length of your Fibre Channel connections In general distances under 5 meters can be connected with copper cables Distances from 5 to 500 meters require the use of fiber optic cable NOTE Profile Fibre Channel cables sold for use with Fibre Channel hubs do not have the required connectors for use with the Fibre Channel switc...

Page 13: ...Connecting Devices to the Switch Profile Fibre Channel Switch 13 Figure 3 Single switch fabric with no loops attached 0564 2 Fibre Channel Loop not supported ...

Page 14: ...ions Increasing the number of inter switch connections will increase the bandwidth between the switches and thus between devices connected to different switches Figure 4 illustrates a fabric comprising two Fibre Channel switches Note the two connections between the switches Figure 5 shows three switches connected together Note that each switch is connected to two other switches You do not need two...

Page 15: ...Connecting Devices to the Switch Profile Fibre Channel Switch 15 Figure 4 A sample two switch fabric 0564 3 ...

Page 16: ...16 Profile Fibre Channel Switch Figure 5 A sample three switch fabric 0564 4 ...

Page 17: ...nd to detect any problems that may occur If you set one or more appropriate SNMP trap destination addresses on your switch you can also be alerted immediately when problems occur on the switch Figure 6 A NetCentral II view of a Fibre Channel switch The following sections describe how to configure your switch for operation with NetCentral II and provide a brief guide on how to troubleshoot switch p...

Page 18: ...hown in the table You should refer to the SilkWorm Hardware Reference Manual for instructions on connecting your Fibre Channel Switch to an Ethernet network and assigning an Ethernet Internet Protocol IP address to your Fibre Channel switch SNMP includes a mechanism to report events as soon as they occur rather than waiting until a device is polled to obtain its status This type of notification is...

Page 19: ...P Configuration Profile Fibre Channel Switch 19 Location line of your browser For example type 192 168 8 240 in your browser to open a view of that switch and its fabric Figure 7 A Fabric View in a browser ...

Page 20: ...ge of the switch that you wish to configure This opens a switch management application for that switch Figure 8 The Switch Management Application 4 Click the Admin button and log in as user admin Refer to the BROCADE WEB TOOLS User s Guide for information on passwords ...

Page 21: ...tch 21 5 In the Switch Admin page choose the SNMP Admin tab Figure 9 The SNMP Admin tab 6 In the SNMP Admin tab enter meaningful System Description System Contact and System Location information This information is reported through NetCentral II ...

Page 22: ...tation 9 Repeat the preceding step for all other NetCentral II monitoring stations 10 Once you have made all of your SNMP settings press the Commit SNMP Changes button Your monitoring station should now receive all traps from your Fibre Channel switch You can test this by creating a fault condition such as disconnecting one of your Fibre Channel connections to the Fibre Channel switch A message sh...

Page 23: ...ature and fans Click on the appropriate subsystem icon in the NetCentral II window to view its status Consult the NetCentral II User Guide for more information on using NetCentral II NetCentral II also lets you monitor the status of each of the ports on your Brocade SilkWorm Switch Click the Ports icon to view information such as the state transmitter type the number of frames in and out of each p...

Page 24: ...Profile Fibre Channel Switch You can also view error statistics for each of the ports Choose View Port Statistics to see a summary of the errors since the last switch reboot Figure 11 Port error statistics ...

Page 25: ...age Replace power supply System temperature exceeds maximum recommended at number C Cooling air flow blocked High ambient temperature Component failure Remove blockage in cooling air flow Reduce ambient air temperature Run switch diagnostics Temperature fault at number C Temperature sensor failed Contact Support Faulty cooling fan name Fan failed Replace fan An embedded port fault was detected by ...

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