EMC Connectrix B Series

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EMC Connectrix B Series v6.2 ED-DCX-4S-B Hardware Reference Manual
Hardware Overview
Serviceability
The ED-DCX-4S-B provides the following features to enhance and
ensure serviceability:
◆ Modular design with hot-swappable components.
◆ Flash memory that stores two firmware images per control
processor.
◆ USB port on control processor blades for all tasks that formerly
required an FTP/SCP server, including software and firmware
upgrades.
◆ Redesigned cable management using vertical fingers to
accommodate the horizontal orientation of the blades.
◆ Nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM), containing the
EMC 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.
◆ Watchdog timers.
◆ Status LEDs.
◆ Predictive diagnostics analysis through Fabric Watch.
◆ SNMP (including version 3) integration with higher-layer
managers.