Supervisor-1 Modules; Control And Management - Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Installation Manual

Chapter 1 Product Overview
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .

Supervisor-1 Modules

The Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors support up to two Supervisor-1 or Supervisor-2 modules that
can be installed in slots 5 and 6 only. The main functions and components of the Supervisor-1 modules
are as follows:
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Supervisor-1 is not supported on the Cisco MDS 9513 Director.
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1 Status, System, Active, and Pwr
2 Reset button
3 Console port
4 MGMT 10/100 Ethernet port (with
5 COM1 serial port
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Control and Management

The supervisor modules provide the following control and management features:
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Control and Management, page 1-21
Crossbar Switching Fabric, page 1-22
Processor, page 1-22
Port Interfaces, page 1-22
LEDs on the Supervisor-1 Module, page 1-23
shows a Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-1 module.
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-1 Module
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Mgmt LEDs
integrated Link and Activity LEDs)
Table 1-5 on page 1-24 for status LED descriptions.
A redundant central arbiter that provides traffic control and access fairness.
A nondisruptive restart of a single failing process on the same supervisor.
A kernel service running on the supervisor module keeps track of the high availability policy of each
process and issues a restart when a process fails. The type of restart issued is based on the process's
capability:
Warm or stateful (state is preserved)
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Cold or stateless (state is not preserved)
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6 CompactFlash LED
7 CompactFlash eject button
8 CompactFlash slot
9 Asset tag
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