intrepid Intrepid 6140 Director, Installation And Service Manual

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Intrepid® 6140 Director Installation and Service Manual
General Information
computing environments, and provides data transmission and flow
control between device node ports (N_Ports) as dictated by the Fibre
Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH 4.3). Through
interswitch links (ISLs), the director can also connect to one or more
additional directors to form a Fibre Channel multiswitch fabric.
The director can be managed through a management server running
a Java™-based SAN management application (SANavigator
®
or
Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM)) and the Intrepid
6140 Element Manager application.
Multiple directors and the management server communicate on a
local area network (LAN) through one or more 10/100 Base-T
Ethernet hubs. One or more 24-port Ethernet hubs are optional and
can be ordered with the director. Up to three hubs can be
daisy-chained to provide additional Ethernet connections as more
directors (or other McDATA managed products) are installed on a
customer network.
As an option, administrators or operators with a browser-capable PC
and an Internet connection can monitor and manage the director
through the EFCM Basic Edition interface. The interface manages
only a single director, and provides a graphical user interface (GUI)
that supports product configuration, statistics monitoring, and basic
operation. The EFCM Basic Edition interface is opened from a
standard web browser running Netscape Navigator
®
4.6 or higher or
Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
Figure 1-1 illustrates an equipment rack with three directors, the
management server, and an Ethernet hub.