Advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting tools: IBM Storage Networking c-type family integrates  o proactive diagnostics, tools to verify connectivity and route latency, and to capture and analyze  traffic, thereby simplifying the management of large-scale storage networks. The POST and  online diagnostics provide proactive health monitoring. Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) is a  suite of diagnostic facilities that verify whether the hardware and internal data paths are operating  as designed. Boot-time diagnostics, continuous monitoring, standby fabric loopback tests, and  on-demand and scheduled tests are part of the GOLD feature set. This industry-leading  diagnostics subsystem enables rapid fault isolation and continuous system monitoring, which are  critical features in today's continuously operating environments. Integrated hardware functions support diagnostic capabilities such as Fibre Channel traceroute to  o identify the exact path and timing of flows, and Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote  SPAN (RSPAN) to intelligently capture network traffic. The captured Fibre Channel traffic can be  analyzed with the embedded Fabric Analyzer. Comprehensive port-based and flow-based  statistics enable sophisticated performance analysis and SLA accounting. Comprehensive solution for robust security: Addressing the need for stringent security in storage  o networks, the 32-Gbps Fibre Channel line card offers an extensive security framework to protect  the highly sensitive data crossing today's enterprise networks. The IBM Storage Networking  c-type family employs intelligent packet inspection at the port level, including the application of  ACLs for hardware enforcement of zones, VSANs, and advanced port security features. VSANs  are used to achieve greater security and stability by providing complete isolation of devices that  are connected to the same physical SAN. IVR enables controlled sharing of resources between  VSANs. In addition, FC-SP1 provides switch-to-switch and host-to-switch DH CHAP authentication  o supporting RADIUS or TACACS+ to help ensure that only authorized devices access protected  storage networks. TrustSec1 Fibre Channel link encryption, available on the 32-Gbps modules,  enables you to transparently encrypt ISLs at up to line-rate speeds, providing an additional layer  of protection for traffic within and between data centers. The IBM Storage Networking c-type  family supports a fabric binding feature that helps ensure that ISLs are enabled only between  specified switches in the fabric binding configuration. Integrated mainframe support: The IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-6 and SAN384C-6 are  o mainframe ready, with full support for FICON for IBM z Systems and Linux environments. They  support transport of the FICON protocol in both cascaded and noncascaded fabrics. They also  support a mix of FICON and open-systems Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) traffic on the same  switch. 11 IBM Storage Networking SAN192C-6 Product Guide