The Fabric Part of the Storage Management Technical Specification defines management profiles for Autonomous (top level) profiles for programs and devices whose central function is providing support for storage networking.

This version of the Fabric Part of the Storage Management Technical Specification includes four autonomous profiles:

• Fabric

This profile defines the model and functions of a storage network including topology and zoning control.

• Switch

This profile defines the model and functions of a Fibre Channel Switch including state, status, and control of the device and its connections and product information,

• Extender

This profile defines the model and functions of a networking device that allows for fibre channel to be extended over other networks, and specifically over IP (FCIP).

• iSCSI to FC Gateway

This profile defines the model and funct