Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-8 User Manual

• One serial port and two Ethernet ports (on each control processor) for management and for service. Oine control processor
diagnostics and remote diagnostics simplify troubleshooting. The standby control processor monitors diagnostics to ensure the
system is operational should a failover be necessary.
• Bus monitoring and control of blades and other eld-replaceable units (FRUs).
Serviceability
The device provides the following features to enhance and ensure serviceability:
• Modular design with hot-swappable components.
• Flash memory that stores two rmware images per control processor.
• USB port on control processor blades for most tasks that formerly required an FTP/SCP server, including software and
rmware upgrades.
• Nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM), containing the OEM serial number, Brocade serial number, revision information,
and part number information.
• Background health-check daemon.
• Memory scrubber, self test, and bus ping to determine if a bus is not functioning.
• RASlog messages.
• SMI-S compliant.
• Hardware and software watchdog timers.
• Status LEDs.
• Predictive diagnostics analysis through Fabric Watch.
• 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:
• Name server
• Alias server
• Zone server
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent
• SMI-S compliant API
• Syslog auditing
• Reliable Commit Service (RCS)
• NTP
• Tasks to manage address assignment, routing, link initialization, fabric initialization, link shutdown, the device shutdown, and the
user interface
Serviceability
Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Installation Guide
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Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-8 Specifications

General

Brand	Brocade Communications Systems
Model	DCX 8510-8
Category	Switch
Language	English