本标准规定了可用于支持设备管理和运行的通用服务 光纤通道结构。它包括与设备和拓扑发现、结构分区和光纤连接相关的服务 通道安全性、时间同步、地址别名组、事件报告和性能监控。本标准为规范提供了澄清、更正、服务增强和新服务 在ANSI INCITS 427:2007中，建议使用和而不是ANSI INCITS 427:2007来指导 新产品的开发。此外，本标准删除了某些功能的规范 对社区不再重要。

This standard specifies Generic Services that may be used to support management and operation of a Fibre Channel Fabric. It incudes services relating to device and topology discovery, Fabric zoning, Fibre Channel security, time synchronization, address alias groups, event reporting, and performance monitoring.This standard provides clarifications, corrections, service enhancements, and new services to the specification in ANSI INCITS 427:2007, and is recommended rather than ANSI INCITS 427:2007 to guide the development of new products. In addition, this standard removes the specifications of certain functions no longer of significance to the community.