HP 1606 FICON Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001771-01, June 2010) - Page 14

1 FICON overview • Insistent domain ID (IDID) Allows the switch to insist on a specific domain ID before joining a fabric. This feature guarantees that a switch operates only with its preassigned domain ID. • Link incident detection, registration, and reporting Provides administrative and diagnostic information. • Port swapping Redirects resources from a failed port to a healthy port without changing the mainframe hardware configuration definition (HCD) settings. Port swapping is available for both FICON and open system environments. Port swapping resolves situations in which the hardware has failed and the channel configurations cannot be changed quickly. Port swapping has minimal or no impact on other switch features. • Switch connection control (SCC) policy Includes switch binding security methods that prevent unauthorized switches from joining a fabric. • Traffic Isolation (TI) Zones and Enhanced TI Zones TI Zones are used to direct traffic across links through a specified path. Enhanced TI Zones allow you to have ports in more than one TI Zone and to program domain controller routes to destination domains for F-class traffic, ensuring fabric stability. These Brocade management tools provide further support: • Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) Data Center Fabric Manager is an optional software program that can be used to manage a fabric that supports FICON and FCP devices and traffic. This is the recommended GUI management tool for FICON environments on B-series enterprise-class switches. For more information on DFCM refer to the manual appropriate for your version: DCFM User's Manual, DCFM User's Manual (Professional Edition), or DCFM User's Manual (Enterprise Edition). • Fabric OS MIB Reference The MIB reference provides information and procedures on setting up the SNMP agent and FICON Management Information Base (MIB) on your switch. • Web Tools Web Tools is an embedded GUI management tool that can be used to manage a director (switch) that supports FICON and Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) devices and traffic. For more information on Web Tools refer to the Web Tools Administrator's Guide. NOTE Some licenses are installed and activated on the switch at the factory. Use a Brocade management interface to verify that the required licenses are installed and activated on the switch. Platforms supporting FICON FICON protocol is supported on the following Brocade models: • Brocade DCX and DCX-4S Backbones (FC8-16 and FC8-32 port blades, FR4-18i and FX8-24 FCIP blades and FC10-6 10 Gbps port blade for ISL connections.The FC8-48 blade is only supported in Brocade native mode (InteropMode = 0). In the DCX, the FC8-48 blade is only supported in a logical switch defined for zero-based addressing.) 2 FICON Administrator's Guide 53-1001771-01