Fabric Manager Users Guide, Version 6.1, Revision A - QLogic

3–Fabric Manager Configuration
Configuring the QLogic Fabric Manager
Configuration File Syntax
The qlogic_fm.xml file uses standard XML syntax to define configuration
settings.
While XML is quite powerful, only a handful of basic syntaxes are needed to
create QLogic Fabric Manager configuration files.
Comments are ignored during parsing and may be used to annotate the file as
needed. The following is a comment:
In the sample configuration file, comments are kept to a single line for readability,
however a comment can span multiple lines if needed.
A parameter is specified using an XML tag such as:
value
All XML tag names are case sensitive. Each parameter starts with a start tag:
and ends with a corresponding end tag: . The names
of the parameters are as described in the remainder of this section and as shown
in the sample qlogic_fm.xml configuration file. Between the start and end tags
a value for the parameter can be provided.
The majority of parameters have numeric values. Numbers can be specified in
decimal or hex. Hex numbers should start with 0x. For example: 0x1c is the hex
representation of 28 decimal.
A section in the file can contain multiple related parameters. Sections also begin
with a start tag and end with an end tag. For example:
value
value
A section may contain zero or more parameters. Some sections contain other
sections. The indentation in this example (and the sample qlogic_fm.xml
configuration file) is used for readability but indentation is not required. If a section
contains no parameters, it can be omitted.
Throughout this guide, the abbreviation section.parameter or
section.subsection is used to indicate a section containing a given
parameter or subsection.
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