Dell PowerVault 50F Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

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support.dell.com Managing the PowerVault 56F 16-Port Fibre Channel Switch 3-1 ! This chapter contains general information and examples on managing and monitoringthe PowerVault 56F 16-Port Fibre Channel switch. The following topics are discussed: Compatibility with PowerVault 5xF series hardware Switch management methods Managing through front panel buttons Managing using the Telnet command Managing with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) under DellOpenManage™ systems management software and the PowerVault 56F switchmanager Managing with the Dell PowerVault switch managerNOTE: You must assign an Internet protocol (IP) address to the switch through thefront panel controls before you can access the remote management methods. !)* +4-) The PowerVault 56F switch interoperates with the PowerVault 5xF switches. To becompatible with the PowerVault 50F switch, the PowerVault 56F switch should beconfigured to a specific addressing mode designated as VC encoded Address mode(also known as compatibility mode). This mode is enabled by default on all PowerVault5xF switches.When using this compatibility mode, the maximum switch count in the fabric is lim-ited to 32 as opposed to a maximum of 239, and the number of multicast groups isreduced from 256 to 31.NOTE: The maximum number of interconnected switches that are supported in Dellconfigurations may differ depending on device features. Please refer to your DellPowerVault System Storage Area Network (SAN) Installation and TroubleshootingGuide for the currently supported configuration.