A state university needs a copy of the Fibre Channel frames on one host port while that host attempts a process login to a target. Which MDS tool supplies that frame copy?
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Short Explanation
You need a photocopy of the letter, not a line in the office directory that says the letter exists. You configure a SPAN session on the MDS so the host-port frames are copied to an analyzer while the process login is attempted. The name server can tell you who has logged in, and it does not keep the frames.
Full Explanation
MDS SPAN copies Fibre Channel frames from a source, such as this host port, to a span destination port where an analyzer can capture them. That is the tool that shows the process login itself, including a reject the name server will never store. The FCNS name server is the directory of devices that have registered after fabric login. It can show that a port WWN is present, and it does not retain the frames of a process login for later review. Activating a zoneset programs the enforcement database. It does not dump a session to an analyzer when a target is missing. A device-alias commit distributes friendly names through Cisco Fabric Services. It does not mirror a host port to the peer, and the peer would still not be a frame capture of this login. Caveat: the destination has to be a free span destination port with the session up, or the host can log in while the analyzer still sees nothing. Operational check: start the SPAN session, have the host attempt the process login once, and confirm the analyzer shows those frames from the host port.