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McDATA® Sphereon™ 4500 Fabric Switch Product Manager User Manual

Glossary

device Product, connected to a managed switch, that is not controlled

directly by the Product Manager. See also node.

diagnostics Procedures used by computer users and service personnel to

diagnose hardware or software error conditions.

dialog box Dialog box is a window containing informational messages or data

fields to be modified or filled in with desired options.

D_ID See destination address.

director An intelligent Fibre Channel switching device providing any-to-any

port connectivity between nodes (end devices) on a switched fabric.

The director sends data transmissions (data frames) between nodes in

accordance with the address information present in the frame

headers of those transmissions.

DNS name Domain name system or domain name service. Host or node name

for a device or managed product that is translated to an IP address

through a domain name server.

domain ID Number (1 through 31) that uniquely identifies a switch in a

multiswitch fabric. A distinct domain ID is automatically allocated to

each switch in the fabric by the principal switch.

E_Port See expansion port.

E_D_TOV See error-detect time-out value.

EFC Enterprise fabric connectivity.

EFC Product Manager The applications provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and

management services, and implement web and other server

functions.

EFC Server PC shipped with a product to run the EFC Manager and EFC Product

Manager applications.

EFC Management

Services

Software application that provides back-end product-independent

services to the EFC Manager application. EFC Management Services

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