The Fibre Channel Services Layer

The tests mapped to this layer enable network administrators to do the following:

• Promptly detect sudden changes in the operational state or overall health of one/more ports on the switch;
• Be alerted to errors/invalid transmissions at the port-level
• Isolate connection units that have failed;
• Identify overloaded ports or ports that are abnormally slow.

Figure 1 : The tests mapped to the Fibre Channel Services layer