ANSI/INCITS 463-2010

This standard specifies Generic Services that may be used to support management and operation of aFibre Channel Fabric. It incudes services relating to device and topology discovery, Fabric zoning, FibreChannel security, time synchronization, address alias groups, event reporting, and performance monitoring.

This standard provides clarifications, corrections, service enhancements, and new services to the specificationin ANSI INCITS 427:2007, and is recommended rather than ANSI INCITS 427:2007 to guide thedevelopment of new products. In addition, this standard removes the specifications of certain functionsno longer of significance to the community.

This product replaces:INCITS 463 Draft - Information technology