McDATA Enterprise Operating System, User Manual

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g-12 Enterprise Operating System Command Line Interface User Manual
Glossary
online state When the switch or director is in the online state, all of the unblocked
ports are allowed to log in to the fabric and begin communicating.
Devices can connect to the switch or director if the port is not blocked
and can communicate with another attached device if both devices
are in the same zone, or if the default zone is enabled.
Contrast with
offline state .
operating state
(director or switch)
The operating states are described as follows:
Online - when the director or switch is set online, an attached
device can log in to the director if the port is not blocked.
Attached devices can communicate with each other if they are
configured in the same zone.
Offline - when the director or switch is set offline, all ports are set
offline. The director or switch transmits the offline sequence
(OLS) to attached devices, and the devices cannot log in to the
director or switch.
operating state (port) Valid states are:
• Online, offline, or testing.
• Beaconing.
• Invalid attachment.
• Link incident or link reset.
• No light, not operational, or port failure.
• Segmented E_Port.
optical fiber
connector
Hardware component that transfers optical power between two
optical fibers or bundles and is designed to be repeatedly connected
and disconnected.
out-of-band
management
Transmission of management information, using frequencies or
channels other than those routinely used for information transfer.
P
password Unique string of characters known to the computer system and to a
user who must specify it to gain full or limited access to a system and
to the information stored within it.