Fibre Channel Methodologies of Interconnects
IBM Spectrum® Control supports the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel FC-MI (Fibre Channel Methodologies of Interconnects) for the automated discovery of FC SAN assets and topology.
ANSI T11 Fibre Channel FC-MI includes the following for
the automated discovery of FC SAN assets and topology:
- Hosts (HBAs)
- FC interconnects
- FC storage devices
The T11 FC-MI also includes the following:
- FC-GS-3/4 (discovery, zoning, and so forth)
- RNID (advanced device recognition)
- Platform registration (device recognition and launch)
- Common HBA API (fabric and storage views)
- Name server (connectivity)
- Management server (SAN connectivity and topology)
- RSCN (advanced event detection)
- SCSI queries (storage views, volume information, and so forth)
- SNMP Fabric Element (FE) MIB
- SNMP FC Management MIB (discovery, performance statistics, and so forth)
- SNMP alerts