Configuring fcs, Overview – H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches User Manual

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Configuring FCS

Only FCF switches support FCS. Switches described in this chapter refer to FCF switches.

Overview

The Fabric Configuration Server (FCS) feature provides discovery of topology information of a fabric,
including switches in the fabric and ports on each switch. A management application (for example,

SNMP NMS software) determines the physical and logical topologies of the fabric based on the FCS

topology information. It also manages the switches in the fabric.
The FCS describes the topology of a fabric by using the following objects:

Interconnect element (IE) object—Each switch in a fabric corresponds to an IE object. One or more

IE objects are interconnected to form a fabric. An IE object has a set of attributes, as shown in

Table

6

.

Port object—Each VFC interface on an IE object corresponds to a port object. An IE object has one
or more port objects. A port object has a set of attributes, as shown in

Table 7

.

Table 6 IE object attributes

Attribute Description

IE WWN

WWN of the IE.

IE type

The IE type can only be Switch.

Domain ID

Domain ID of the IE.

Fabric name

Name of the fabric where the IE resides.

Logical name

Device name of the IE, which can be configured by using the sysname
command.

Management address list

Management protocol supported by the IE and management IP address.
Only SNMP is supported. The management IP address is in the form of a
URL. For example, snmp://192.168.6.100 indicates that the

management protocol is SNMP and the management IP address is
192.168.6.100.
An IE can have one or more management addresses.

Information list

Includes vendor name, product name/number, release code, and other
vendor-specific information.

Table 7 Port object attributes

Attribute Description

Port WWN

WWN of the port.

Port type

Port mode: E_Port or F_Port.

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