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Management and Software
The BX 5020 series gateway contains a management module that gives the user the ability to man-
age the gateway. This management module runs Mellanox proprietary software. For information
regarding the software see the FabricIT BX Management Software CLI User’s Manual.
This chapter describes the management module and tools available for Out-of-Band management
of the gateway system via FabricIT.
3.1
FabricIT
FabricIT is a software based management system that can be run with either a command line inter-
face or with a GUI interface. The GUI interface can be run through the Web.
See the FabricIT BXM User Manual for instructions and commands available to manage the gate-
ways, and fabric.
To access this document, download the User Manual from
www.mellanox.com
> Products > Gateway Software > Software and Documentation
Download.
You will need a valid Mellanox Gateway S/N.
Each Ethernet port gets connected to Ethernet switches. These gateways must
be configured to 10/100/1000M auto-negotiation.