53-1002177-19 Hardware Installation Guide
Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Installation Guide
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Modular design with hot-swappable components.
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Flash memory that stores two firmware images per control processor.
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USB port on control processor blades for most tasks that formerly required an FTP/SCP server, including software and
firmware upgrades.
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Nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM), containing the OEM serial number, Brocade serial number, revision
information, and part number information.
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Background health-check daemon.
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Memory scrubber, self test, and bus ping to determine if a bus is not functioning.
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RASlog messages.
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SMI-S compliant.
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Hardware and software watchdog timers.
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Status LEDs.
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Predictive diagnostics analysis through Fabric Watch.
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SNMP (including version 3) integration with higher-layer managers.
Software features
The Fabric OS allows any Fibre Channel-compliant device to attach to the switches as long as it conforms to the device
login, name service, and related Fibre Channel standards. Each operating environment requires that a Fibre Channel host
bus adapter (HBA) be available with a standards-compliant driver for correct interface to the fabric.
Fabric OS consists of a set of embedded applications running on top of an embedded Linux operating system kernel.
Some of these applications include:
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Name server
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Alias server
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Zone server
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent
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SMI-S compliant API
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Syslog auditing
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Reliable Commit Service (RCS)
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NTP
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Tasks to manage address assignment, routing, link initialization, fabric initialization, link shutdown, the device
shutdown, and the user interface
Security
The following list highlights some of the key security features available in the device and in other Brocade enterprise-class
products running Fabric OS 7.0.1 or later. For details, contact your device supplier and refer to the Brocade White Paper,
"The Growing Need for Security in Storage Area Networks."
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