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Serviceability

The Brocade DCX 8510-8 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 most tasks that formerly required an FTP/SCP server,

including software and firmware 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,

Brocade DCX 8510-8 shutdown, and the user interface

Security

The following list highlights some of the key security features available for the Brocade DCX 8510-8

and for other Brocade enterprise-class products running Fabric OS 7.0.1 or later. For details, contact

your Brocade DCX 8510-8 supplier and refer to the Brocade White Paper, "The Growing Need for

Security in Storage Area Networks."

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