Performing Advanced Conguration Tasks................................................................................................................................................................ 67
Port identiers (PIDs) and PID binding overview.......................................................................................................................................................................67
Core PID addressing mode.......................................................................................................................................................................................................67
Fixed addressing mode...............................................................................................................................................................................................................68
10-bit addressing (mode 0)......................................................................................................................................................................................................68
256-area addressing (mode 1 and mode 2).....................................................................................................................................................................68
WWN-based PID assignment..................................................................................................................................................................................................69
Ports............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 71
Port Types.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................71
Backbone port blades..................................................................................................................................................................................................................72
Setting port names........................................................................................................................................................................................................................72
Port identication by slot and port number........................................................................................................................................................................ 73
Port identication by port area ID........................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
Port identication by index.........................................................................................................................................................................................................73
Dynamic Portname.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................73
Conguring a device-switch connection .............................................................................................................................................................................77
Swapping port area IDs...............................................................................................................................................................................................................78
Enabling a port................................................................................................................................................................................................................................79
Disabling a port...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................79
Port decommissioning................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 80
Setting network interface modes.............................................................................................................................................................................................80
Setting port speeds.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................81
Setting all ports on a switch to the same speed............................................................................................................................................................... 81
Setting port speed for a port octet......................................................................................................................................................................................... 82
Setting maximum auto-negotiated port speed.................................................................................................................................................................82
Decoding fdmiShow command output................................................................................................................................................................................82
Blade terminology and compatibility..............................................................................................................................................................................................83
CP blades..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
Core blades...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 86
Port and application blade compatibility..............................................................................................................................................................................86
Enabling and disabling blades...........................................................................................................................................................................................................87
Enabling blades.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 87
Disabling blades.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................87
Blade swapping........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................88
How blades are swapped........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Swapping blades............................................................................................................................................................................................................................93
Disabling switches.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 93
Power management...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................93
Powering o a port blade or core blade...............................................................................................................................................................................93
Powering on a port blade or core blade............................................................................................................................................................................... 94
Equipment status.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 94
Checking switch operation.........................................................................................................................................................................................................94
Verifying High Availability features (Backbones only).....................................................................................................................................................94
Verifying fabric connectivity.......................................................................................................................................................................................................95
Verifying device connectivity.....................................................................................................................................................................................................95
Audit log conguration..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................96
Verifying host syslog prior to conguring the audit log................................................................................................................................................. 97
Conguring an audit log for specic event classes......................................................................................................................................................... 97
Conguring remote syslog servers.........................................................................................................................................................................................98
Duplicate PWWN handling during device login......................................................................................................................................................................... 99
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