ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 14165-414 First edition 2007-05 Information technology- Fibre channel- Part 414: Generic services-4 (FC-GS-4) IEC ISO Reference number ISO/IEC 14165-414:2007(E) THISPUBLICATIONISCOPYRIGHTPROTECTED Copyright @ 2007 ISO/lEC, Geneva, Switzerland or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either IEC or IEC's member National Committee in the country of the requester. If you have any questions about Iso/lEc copyright or have an enquiry about obtaining additional rights to this publication,please contact theaddress belowor your local lECmember National Committee forfurther information. IEc Central Office 3, rue de Varembe CH-1211Geneva20 Switzerland Email: [email protected] Web:www.iec.ch About the IEC International Standardsforall electrical,electronic and related technologies. AboutIEC publications latest edition, a corrigenda or an amendment might have been published. • Catalogue of IEC publications: www.iec.ch/searchpub The IEc on-line Catalogue enables you to search by a variety of criteria (reference number, text, technical committee,...). It also gives information on projects, withdrawn and replaced publications. - IEc Just Published: www.iec.ch/online news/justpub Stay up to date on all new IEC publications. Just Published details twice a month all new publications released. Available on-line and also by email. : Customer Service Centre: www.iec.ch/webstore/custserv If you wish to give us your feedback on this publication or need further assistance, please visit the Customer Service CentreFAQorcontactus: Email: [email protected] Tel.:+41229190211 Fax:+41229190300 ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 14165-414 First edition 2007-05 Information technology- Fibre channel. Part 414: Generic services-4 (FC-GS-4) PRICECODE XH IEC ISO For price,see currentcatalogue - 2 - 14165-414@ISO/IEC:2007(E) Contents Introduction 18 Scope 20 Normative references 20 2 2.1 Overview 20 2.2 Approved references 20 2.3 References under development 20 2.4 Other references 21 Definitions and conventions 22 3.1 Overview 22 3.2 Definitions 22 3.3 Editorial conventions 3.4 Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols 28 Common transport for generic services (CT) 30 4.1 Overview 30 4.2 Generalconcepts 31 4.3 CT information unit 32 4.3.1 Overview 32 4.3.2 Basic CT_IU preamble description 33 4.3.3 Extended CT_IU preamble description 38 4.3.4 Vendor-specific CT_IU preamble 39 4.3.5 CT_IU additional information 41 4.4 CT Information units (CT_IU) 41 4.4.1 Overview 41 4.4.2 Request CT_IU 41 4.4.3 Accept CT_IU 41 4.4.4 Reject CT_IU 41 4.5 FC-FS mapping 43 4.5.1 Overview 43 4.5.2 Synchronous mode transactions 43 4.5.3 Asynchronous mode transactions 46 4.6 Time constants 49 4.6.1 Overview 49 4.6.2 Request to response time 49 4.6.3 Database propagation delay 49 4.7 Persistence of actions after logout 50 4.8 CT Authentication 50 4.8.1 Overview 50 4.8.2 Secure association attributes 51 4.8.3 Security algorithms 52 4.9 Commonrequests 52 4.9.1 Description 52 4.9.2 CT_IU preamble values 53 4.9.3 Reason code explanations 53 4.9.4 Get more information (GMI) 53 4.9.5 Server registration and state change notification initiation 54 5 Directory service 56 5.1 Overview 56 14165-414@ISO/IEC:2007(E) -3- 5.2 Name server 56 5.2.1 Overview 56 5.2.2 Name Server protocol 58 5.2.3 Name server objects - Formats 63 5.2.4 Reason code explanations 71 5.2.5 Commands 73 6 Management service 115 6.1 Fabric configuration server 117 6.1.1 Overview 117 6.1.2 Protocol 117 6.1.3 Fabric configuration server objects and attributes 121 6.1.4 Reason code explanations 142 6.1.5 Commands 144 6.2 Unzoned Name Server 176 6.2.1 Overview 176 6.2.2 Protocol 176 6.2.3 Unzoned Name Server objects - Formats 178 6.2.4 Reason code explanations 178 6.2.5 Commands 178 6.3 Fabric Zone Server 179 6.3.1 Overview 179 6.3.2 Terminology 181 6.3.3 Protocol 182 6.3.4 Zoning Management Framework 182 6.3.5 Default Zoning 184 6.3.6 Basic Zoning Man