Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24, DCFM Professional Plus User Manual

53-1001774-01

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14 April 2010

DCFM Professional Plus

User Manual

Supporting DCFM 10.4.X

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Corporate and Latin American Headquarters
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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Document History

The following table lists all versions of the DCFM Professional Plus User Manual.

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

DCFM Professional Plus User Manual 53-1001356-01 First release. July 2009

DCFM Professional Plus User Manual 53-1001774-01 10.4 release. April 2010

Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiv

Chapter 1 Getting Started

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

User interface components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

SAN tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

View All list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Port Display buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Product List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Connectivity Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Master Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Utilization Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Minimap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Icon legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Product icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Group icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Port icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Product status icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Event icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Management server and client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Logging into a server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Launching a remote client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Clearing previous versions of the remote client . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Launching the Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Changing the database user password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Viewing active sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Disconnecting users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Viewing server properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Viewing port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

License. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Managed port count calculation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Entering the license key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Upgrading the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Installing a patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Uninstalling a patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Feature-to-firmware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Accessibility features for the Management application . . . . . . . . . .32

Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Look and Feel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 2 Discovery

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Fabric discovery overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

FCS policy and seed switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Discovering fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Configuring SNMP credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Reverting to a default SNMP community string. . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Deleting a fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Host discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Discovering Hosts by IP address or hostname. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Importing Hosts from a CSV file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Importing Hosts from a Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configuring Brocade HBA credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Configuring virtual machine credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Editing Host credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing a Host from Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Viewing the discovery state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Troubleshooting discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

M-EOSn discovery troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Virtual Fabric discovery troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Fabric monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Monitoring discovered fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Stop monitoring of a discovered fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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Seed switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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Seed switch requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Seed switch failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Changing the seed switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 3 Application Configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Data backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

What is backed up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Management server backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Configuring backup to a writable CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Configuring backup to a hard drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Configuring backup to a network drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Enabling backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Disabling backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Viewing the backup status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing the backup interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Starting immediate backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Reviewing backup events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Data restore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Restoring data to a new server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Resetting your display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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End node display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Displaying end nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Ethernet events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Enabling Ethernet events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Disabling Ethernet events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Event storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Configuring event storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Flyovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Configuring flyovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Turning flyovers on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Viewing flyovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting names to be unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting names to be non-unique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Fixing duplicate names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Viewing names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adding a name to an existing device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adding a name to a new device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Applying a name to a detached WWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Removing a name from a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Editing names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Exporting names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Importing Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Searching for a device by name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Searching for a device by WWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring the server name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Setting the CHAP secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Configuring login security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Configuring the login banner display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Disabling the login banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Software Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Client export port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

FTP/SCP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Memory allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Server port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Support mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Fabric tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Enabling fabric tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Disabling fabric tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Accepting changes for a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Accepting changes for a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Chapter 4 Call Home

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

About call home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Showing a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Hiding a call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Editing a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Editing the Brocade International or IBM call home center . 109

Editing the Brocade North America call home center . . . . . . 111

Editing an E-mail call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Editing the EMC call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Editing the HP LAN call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Enabling a call home center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Enabling support save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Testing the call home center connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Disabling a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Viewing Call Home status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Assigning a device to the call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Removing a device from a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Removing all devices and filters from a call home center . . . . . . .119

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Defining an event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Call Home for virtual switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Assigning an event filter to a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Assigning an event filter to a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

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Overwriting an assigned event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Removing an event filter from a call home center . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Removing an event filter from a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Removing an event filter from the Call Home Event Filters table .122

Searching for an assigned Event Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Chapter 5 View management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

About view management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Creating a customized view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Editing a customized view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Deleting a customized view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Copying a view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

About topology layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Customizing the layout of devices on the topology . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Customizing the layout of connections on the topology . . . . . . . . .129

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Changing a group’s background color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Reverting to the default background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Changing the product label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Changing the port label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Changing the port display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Grouping on the topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Collapsing groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Expanding groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Viewing connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Configuring custom connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Saving a custom connection configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Deleting a custom connection configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Customizing the main window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Zooming in and out of the connectivity map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Showing levels of detail on the connectivity map . . . . . . . . . 135

Exporting the topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Customizing application tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Searching for a device in the connectivity map . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Chapter 6 Third-party tools

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About third-party tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Starting third-party tools from the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Launching a Telnet session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Launching an Element Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

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Launching Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Launching FCR configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Launching HCM Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Adding a tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Entering the server IP address of a tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Adding an option to the Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Changing an option on the Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Removing an option from the Tools menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Adding an option to a device’s shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Changing an option on a device’s shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Removing an option from a device’s shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . .151

VMware vCenter plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Registering a vCenter server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Editing a vCenter server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Deleting a vCenter server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 7 Server Management Console

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Server management console overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Launching the SMC on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Launching the SMC on Linux and Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Monitoring and managing Management application services 156

Refreshing the server status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Stopping all services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Stopping the CIMOM services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Starting all services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Restarting all services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Changing server port numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Configuring a Radius server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Configuring an LDAP server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Configuring switch authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Configuring Windows authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Configuring NIS authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Configuring UNIX password file authentication . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring local database authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Displaying the client authentication audit trail . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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Restoring the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Capturing technical support information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Upgrading HCM on the Management server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

SMI Agent configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Launching the SMIA configuration tool on Windows. . . . . . . 168

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Launching a remote SMIA configuration tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Home tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

CIMOM configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Certificate management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Viewing the configuration summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Chapter 8 Device Configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Configuration repository management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181

Saving switch configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Restoring a switch configuration for a selected device. . . . . 183

Backing up a switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Restoring a configuration from the repository . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Viewing configuration file content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Searching the configuration file content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Deleting a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Exporting a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Importing a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Keeping a copy past the defined age limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Replicating configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Replicating security configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Device properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Viewing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Adding a property label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Editing a property label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Deleting a property label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Editing a property field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Enhanced group management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

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Firmware management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Displaying the firmware repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Importing a firmware file and release notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Deleting a firmware file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Download firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Creating a new Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Renaming an HBA Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Deleting an HBA Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Viewing Host properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Associating an HBA with a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Importing HBA-to-Host mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Removing an HBA from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Exporting Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Viewing port connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Refreshing the port connectivity view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Enabling a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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Disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Filtering port connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Viewing port details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Viewing ports and port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Showing connected ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Viewing port connection properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Determining inactive iSCSI devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Determining port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Viewing port optics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Port Auto Disable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Viewing the port auto disable status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Enabling port auto disable on individual ports . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Enabling port auto disable on all ports on a device . . . . . . . 220

Disabling port auto disable on individual ports . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Disabling port auto disable on all ports on a device . . . . . . . 221

Unblocking ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Storage port mapping configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222

Creating a storage array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Adding storage ports to a storage array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Unassigning a storage port from a storage array . . . . . . . . . 223

Reassigning mapped storage ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Editing storage array properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Deleting a storage array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Viewing storage port properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Viewing storage array properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Importing storage port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Exporting storage port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Device Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Scheduling technical support information collection . . . . . . 229

Starting immediate technical support information collection 230

Viewing technical support information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

E-mailing technical support information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Copying technical support information to an external FTP server 232

Deleting technical support files from the repository . . . . . . . 232

Upload Failure data capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233

Enabling upload failure data capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Disabling upload failure data capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Purging upload failure data capture files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Configuring the upload failure data capture FTP server . . . . 235

Viewing the upload failure data capture repository. . . . . . . . 236

Chapter 9 Fabric Binding

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Fabric binding overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Enabling fabric binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Disabling fabric binding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Adding switches to the fabric binding membership list . . . . 239

Adding detached devices to the fabric binding membership list 240

Removing switches from fabric binding membership . . . . . . 240

High integrity fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241

High integrity fabric requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Activating high integrity fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Deactivating high integrity fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Chapter 10 Fault Management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245

Fault management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245

Event logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Viewing event logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Copying part of a log entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Copying an entire log entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Exporting the entire log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

E-mailing all event details from the Master Log . . . . . . . . . . 248

E-mailing selected event details from the Master Log . . . . . 248

E-mailing a range of event details from the Master Log . . . . 249

Displaying event details from the Master Log . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Copying part of the Master Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Copying the entire Master Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Exporting the Master Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Filtering events in the Master Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Setting up advanced event filtering for the Master Log . . . . 252

Removing an advanced event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

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Event policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Policy types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Policy triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Policy actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Adding an event policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Adding an Port offline policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adding a PM threshold crossed policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Adding a security violation policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Defining the broadcast message action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Defining the launch script action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Defining the send e-mail action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Configuring support data capture action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Activating a policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Deactivating a policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Deleting a policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Duplicating an event policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Duplicating an Port offline policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Duplicating a PM threshold crossed policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Duplicating a security violation policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Editing an event policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Editing an Port offline policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Editing a PM threshold crossed policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Editing a security violation policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Viewing events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Event notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273

Configuring e-mail notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Setting up advanced event filtering for a user . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

SNMP trap and informs registration and forwarding . . . . . . . . . . .277

Registering the management server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Registering a different Management application server. . . . 277

Removing a host server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Enabling trap forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Adding an SNMPv1 destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Adding an SNMPv3 destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Editing a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Removing a destination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Disabling trap forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Enabling SNMP informs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Disabling SNMP informs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282

Registering the management server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Registering a host server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Removing a host server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Adding a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Editing a destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Removing a destination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Enabling Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Disabling Syslog forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

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Performance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287

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Performance measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Performance management requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

Generating a real-time performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Filtering real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Exporting real-time performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Clearing port counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Historical performance data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297

Enabling historical performance collection SAN wide. . . . . . 297

Enabling historical performance collection for selected fabrics 297

Disabling historical performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Generating a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Saving a historical performance graph configuration . . . . . . 299

Exporting historical performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Deleting a historical performance graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

End-to-end monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

Configuring an end-to-end monitor pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a real-time graph . . . 302
Displaying end-to-end monitor pairs in a historical graph. . . 302

Refreshing end-to-end monitor pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Deleting an end-to-end monitor pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Top Talker monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303

Configuring a fabric mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Configuring an F_port mode Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . 306

Deleting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Pausing a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Restarting a Top Talker monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Thresholds and event notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

Creating a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Editing a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Duplicating a threshold policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Assigning a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Deleting a threshold policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Enabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Disabling connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Changing connection utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Chapter 12 Reports

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Report types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Generating reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

Viewing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

Exporting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

Printing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Deleting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

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Generating performance reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Generating zoning reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Chapter 13 Role-Based Access Control

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Viewing the list of users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Adding a user account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Editing a user account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Filtering event notifications for a user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Removing a user account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327

Creating a user role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Editing a user role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Removing a user role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Resource groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330

Creating a resource group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Editing a resource group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Removing a resource group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Assigning a user to a resource group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Removing a user from a resource group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Finding a user’s resource group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Chapter 14 Host management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

About host management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

HCM software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

HCM features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Host bus adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Converged network adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Host discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339

Connectivity map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339

View management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340

Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340

Role-based access control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340

Host management privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Host administrator privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Host performance management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342

Host fault management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343

Adapter events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Event policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Filtering event notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Syslog forwarding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

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Configuring security authentication using the Management

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supportSave on adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

Chapter 15 Fibre Channel over Ethernet

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349

FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349

DCB exchange protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Enhanced Ethernet features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350

Enhanced transmission selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Priority-based flow control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Ethernet jumbo frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

FCoE protocols supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351

Ethernet link layer protocols supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

FCoE protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

FCoE Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .352

Save running to startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .352

Copying switch configurations to selected switches . . . . . . . 352

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CEE configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353

Opening the CEE Configuration dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

CEE configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Minimum CEE configuration for FCoE traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Switch policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360

CEE map and Traffic Class map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

LLDP profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Access control lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Spanning Tree Protocol policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

802.1x policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Link aggregation groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362

Adding a LAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Editing a CEE switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Editing a CEE port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Editing a LAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Enabling a CEE port or LAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Deleting a LAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

CEE Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Real Time Performance Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Historical Performance Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Historical Performance Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

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QoS configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373

Enhanced Transmission Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Priority-based flow control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Creating a CEE map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Editing a CEE map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Deleting a CEE map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Assigning a CEE map to a port or link aggregation group . . . 378

Creating a traffic class map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Editing a traffic class map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Deleting a traffic class map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Assigning a traffic class map to a port or link aggregation group 381

LLDP-DCBX configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .382

Configuring LLDP for FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Adding an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Editing an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Deleting an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Assigning an LLDP profile to a port or ports in a LAG . . . . . . 386

Access Control List configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388

Adding an ACL to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Editing the parameters of an ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Deleting an ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Assigning an ACL to a port or link aggregation group . . . . . . 391

Spanning Tree Protocol configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393

Enabling Spanning Tree Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Setting Spanning Tree parameters for a switch. . . . . . . . . . . 394

STP configurable parameters at the port or LAG level . . . . . 397

802.1x authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .398

Enabling 802.1x authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Disabling 802.1x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Setting 802.1x parameters for a switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

CEE switch management using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401

CEE switch management using Telnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402

Virtual FCoE port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402

Viewing virtual FCoE ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Clearing a stale entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Chapter 16 Fibre Channel over IP

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405

FCIP services licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406

FCIP Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406

IP network considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406

FCIP platforms and supported features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407

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FCIP trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .408

Design for redundancy and fault tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

FCIP tunnel restrictions for FCP and FICON emulation features 409

FCIP Trunk configuration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

FCIP circuit failover capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Bandwidth calculation during failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Adaptive Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411

FSPF link cost calculation when ARL is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

QoS SID/DID priorities over an FCIP trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

IPsec and IKE implementation over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413

IPsec for the 4 Gbps platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

IPSec for the 8 Gbps platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

QOS, DSCP, and VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415

DSCP quality of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

VLANs and layer two quality of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

When both DSCP and L2CoS are used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Open systems tape pipelining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417

FCIP Fastwrite and Tape Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

FICON emulation features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

XRC emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Tape write pipelining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Tape read pipelining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

FCIP configuration guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419

Virtual Port Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Configuring an FCIP tunnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .420

Adding an FCIP circuit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422

Configuring FCIP tunnel advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425

Enabling and disabling compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Enabling Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP) . . . . . . . . . . 426

Enabling Tperf test mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Configuring IPSec and IKE policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Configuring FICON emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Viewing FCIP connection properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430

Viewing General FCIP properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431

Viewing FCIP FC port properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432

Viewing FCIP Ethernet port properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .433

Editing FCIP tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .434

Editing FCIP circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .435

Disabling FCIP tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436

Enabling FCIP tunnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436

Deleting FCIP tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Disabling FCIP circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Enabling FCIP circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

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Deleting FCIP Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .438

Displaying FCIP performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Displaying performance graphs for FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Displaying FCIP performance graphs for Ethernet ports. . . . 439

Displaying tunnel properties from the FCIP tunnels dialog box. . .440

Displaying FCIP circuit properties from the FCIP tunnels dialog box441

Displaying switch properties from the FCIP Tunnels dialog box. . .442

Displaying fabric properties from the FCIP Tunnels dialog box . . .443

Troubleshooting FCIP Ethernet connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .444

Chapter 17 FC-FC Routing Service Management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Devices that support Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Fibre Channel routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .446

Guidelines for setting up FC-FC routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447

Connecting edge fabrics to a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447

Configuring routing domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449

Chapter 18 Encryption configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Encryption Center features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .452

Encryption user privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .453

Smart card usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .454

Registering authentication cards from a card reader . . . . . . 455

Registering authentication cards from the database . . . . . . 456

De-registering an authentication card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Using authentication cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Enabling or disabling the system card requirement . . . . . . . 458

Registering system cards from a card reader . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

De-registering a system card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Tracking smart cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Editing smart cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Network connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .461

Configuring blade processor links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .461

Encryption node initialization and certificate generation. . . . . . . .462

Supported encryption key manager appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463

Steps for connecting to an RKM appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .464

Exporting the KAC certificate signing request (CSR) . . . . . . . 464

Submitting the CSR to a certificate authority . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Importing the signed KAC certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Uploading the KAC and CA certificates onto the RKM appliance 465

RKM key vault high availability deployment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

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Steps for connecting to an LKM appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .467

The NetApp DataFort Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Establishing the trusted link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Obtaining and importing the LKM certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Exporting and registering the switch KAC certificates on LKM 470

LKM key vault high availability deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Disk keys and tape pool keys (Brocade native mode support) 470

Tape LUN and DF -compatible tape pool support . . . . . . . . . 471

LKM Key Vault Deregistration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Steps for connecting to an SKM appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .472

Configuring a Brocade group on SKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Registering the SKM Brocade group user name and password 474

Setting up the local Certificate Authority (CA) on SKM . . . . . 475

Downloading the local CA certificate from SKM . . . . . . . . . . 476

Creating and installing the SKM server certificate . . . . . . . . 476

Enabling SSL on the Key Management System (KMS) Server 477

Creating an SKM High Availability cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Copying the local CA certificate for a clustered SKM appliance 478

Adding SKM appliances to the cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Signing the Brocade encryption node KAC certificates. . . . . 480

Importing a signed KAC certificate into a switch . . . . . . . . . . 480

Steps for connecting to a TEMS appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .481

Setting up TEMS network connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Creating a client on TEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Establishing TEMS key vault credentials on the switch . . . . 484

Importing a signed KAC certificate into a switch . . . . . . . . . . 484

Gathering information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .485

Creating a new encryption group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .486

Adding a switch to an encryption group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .499

Replacing an encryption engine in an encryption group . . . . . . . .502

Creating high availability (HA) clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .503

Removing engines from an HA cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Swapping engines in an HA cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Failback option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Invoking failback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Adding encryption targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506

Configuring hosts for encryption targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Adding target disk LUNs for encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .514

Remote replication LUNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

SRDF pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Metadata requirements and remote replication . . . . . . . . . . 517

Adding Target Tape LUNs for encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .519

Configuring encrypted tape storage in a multi-path environment 520

Re-balancing the encryption engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .521

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Master keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .522

Active master key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Alternate master key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Master key actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Reasons master keys can be disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Saving the master key to a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Saving a master key to a key vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Saving a master key to a smart card set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Restoring a master key from a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Restoring a master key from a key vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Restoring a master key from a smart card set. . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Creating a new master key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Zeroizing an encryption engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .532

Encryption Targets dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .533

Redirection zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Disk device decommissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .536

Decommissioning LUNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Displaying and deleting decommissioned key IDs. . . . . . . . . 537

Viewing and editing switch encryption properties . . . . . . . . . . . . .537

Exporting the public key certificate signing request (CSR) from

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Importing a signed public key certificate from Properties . . 540

Enabling the encryption engine state from Properties . . . . . 540

Disabling the encryption engine state from Properties. . . . . 541

Viewing and editing group properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .542

General tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Members tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Consequences of removing an encryption switch . . . . . . . . . 544

Security tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

HA Clusters tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Engine Operations tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Link Keys tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Tape Pools tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Encryption-related acronyms in log messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .551

Chapter 19 Virtual Fabrics

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Virtual Fabrics requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .554

Configuring Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .555

Enabling Virtual Fabrics on a discovered device . . . . . . . . . . 556

Disabling Virtual Fabrics on a discovered device . . . . . . . . . 557

Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Finding the physical chassis for a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . 559

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In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .567

Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .567

Zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .570

LSAN zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .590

Contents

Finding the logical switch from a physical chassis . . . . . . . . 559

Assigning ports to a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Removing ports from a logical switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Configuring fabric-wide parameters for a logical fabric. . . . . 562

Applying logical fabric settings to all associated logical switches 563

Moving a logical switch to a different fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Types of zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Online zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Offline zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Accessing zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Zoning naming conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Administrator zoning privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Configuring zoning for the SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Creating a new zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Viewing zone properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Adding members to a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Creating a new member in a zone by WWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Creating a new member in a zone by domain, port index. . . 575

Creating a new member in a zone by alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Enabling or disabling the default zone for fabrics . . . . . . . . . 577

Enabling or disabling safe zoning mode for fabrics. . . . . . . . 578

Creating a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Editing a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Removing an object from a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Exporting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Renaming a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Creating a zone configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Viewing zone configuration properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Adding zones to a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Activating a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Deactivating a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Creating an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Refreshing a zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Merging two zone databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Saving a zone database to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Exporting an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Importing an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Rolling back changes to the offline zone database . . . . . . . 590

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Configuring LSAN zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Creating a new LSAN zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Adding members to the LSAN zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Creating a new member in an LSAN zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Activating LSAN zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Traffic isolation zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .594

Enhanced TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Configuring traffic isolation zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Creating a traffic isolation zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Adding members to a traffic isolation zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Enabling a traffic isolation zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Disabling a traffic isolation zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Enabling failover on a traffic isolation zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Disabling failover on a traffic isolation zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Zoning administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .600

Comparing zone databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Managing zone configuration comparison alerts . . . . . . . . . 601

Setting change limits on zoning activation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Deleting a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Deleting a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Deleting a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Deleting an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Clearing the fabric zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Removing all user names from a zone database . . . . . . . . . 605

Duplicating a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Duplicating a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Duplicating a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Finding a member in one or more zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Finding a zone member in the potential member list . . . . . . 607

Finding zones in a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Finding a zone configuration member in the zones list . . . . 608

Listing zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Removing a member from a zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Removing a zone from a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Removing an offline device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Renaming a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Renaming a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Replacing zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Replacing an offline device by WWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Replacing an offline device by name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

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In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

FC troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .615

Tracing FC routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Troubleshooting device connectivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Confirming fabric device sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

IP troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .619

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Tracing IP routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Viewing FCIP tunnel performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Client browser troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .623

Fabric tracking troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .623

Firmware download troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .623

Launch Client troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625

Names troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .626

Performance troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .628

Port Fencing troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .632

Server Management Console troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .632

Supportsave troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .634

View All list troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .635

Zoning troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .635

Appendix A Application menus

Contents

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .637

Main menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .637

Shortcut menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .645

Appendix B Call Home Event Tables

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .659

Call Home Event Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .659

# CONSRV Events Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .661

# Thermal Event Reason Codes Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .661

# Brocade Events Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .662

Appendix C User Privileges

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .663

About User Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .663

About Roles and Access Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .681

Appendix D Sybase and Derby Database Fields

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683

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Database tables and fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .684

Advanced Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Client_view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Connected end devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

EE- Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Event/FM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

FC Port Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

FCIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

FCIP Tunnel Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

GigE Port Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

ISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Encryption Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Encryption Container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Meta SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Port Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Quartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Role Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Switch details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Switch SNMP info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Zoning 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Zoning 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

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In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiv

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible. This document supports DCFM 10.4.0 and later.

The document contains the following components:

• Chapter 1, “Getting Started,” provides a high-level overview of the user interface.

• Chapter 2, “Discovery,” describes how to discover SANs and hosts.

• Chapter 3, “Application Configuration,” provides Management application configuration

instructions.

• Chapter 4, “Call Home,” provides call home configuration instructions.

• Chapter 5, “View management,” provides view and topology configuration instructions.

• Chapter 6, “Third-party tools,” provides instructions for adding and launching third-party tools.

• Chapter 7, “Server Management Console,” provides information on using the Server

Management Console to stop and start the Management application services, back up the
Management application database, and capture technical support information.

• Chapter 8, “Device Configuration,” provides device configuration instructions.

• Chapter 9, “Fabric Binding,” provides fabric binding instructions.

• Chapter 10, “Fault Management,” provides event management instructions.

• Chapter 11, “Performance Data,” provides information on how to manage performance.

• Chapter 12, “Reports,” provides instructions for generating reports.

• Chapter 13, “Port Fencing,” provides information on how to configure port fencing.

• Chapter 13, “Role-Based Access Control,” provides information on how to manage users.

• Chapter 14, “Host management,” provides information on how to configure an HBA.

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• Chapter 15, “Fibre Channel over Ethernet,”provides information on how to configure an FCoE.

• Chapter 17, “FC-FC Routing Service Management,” provides information on how to manage

Fibre Channel Routing.

• Chapter 18, “Encryption configuration,” provides information on configuring encryption.

• Chapter 19, “Virtual Fabrics,” provides information on configuring and managing logical

switches.

• Chapter 20, “Zoning,” provides zoning configuration instructions.

• Chapter 21, “Troubleshooting,” provides troubleshooting details.

• Appendix A, “Application menus,”provides information about the main and shortcut menus.

• Appendix B, “Call Home Event Tables,”provides supplemental information about call home

event tables.

• Appendix C, “User Privileges,”provides supplemental information about user privileges and

access levels.

• Appendix D, “Sybase and Derby Database Fields,”provides reference information related to

databases.

Supported hardware and software

In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for DCFM 10.4.X, documenting all possible configurations
and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

The following firmware platforms are supported by this release of DCFM 10.4.X:

• Fabric OS 5.0 or later in a pure Fabric OS fabric

• Fabric OS 6.0 or later in a Mixed Fabric

For platform specific Fabric OS requirements, refer to the Table 1 footnotes.

Discovery of a Secure Fabric OS fabric in strict mode is not supported.

The hardware platforms in the following table are supported by this release of DCFM 10.4.X.

TABLE 1 Supported Hardware

Device Name Terminology used in documentation

Brocade 200E switch 16-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 300 switch

Brocade 4012 switch Embedded 12-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4016 switch Embedded 16-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4018 switch Embedded 18-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4020 switch Embedded 20-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

6

24-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch

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Brocade 4024 switch

Brocade 4100 switch 32-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4900 switch

Brocade 5000 switch

Brocade 5100 switch

Brocade 5300 switch

Brocade 5410 embedded switch

Brocade M5424 embedded switch 8 Gbps 24-port Embedded Switch

Brocade 5450 embedded switch 8 Gbps 16-port Embedded Switch

Brocade 5460 embedded switch 8 Gbps 24-port Embedded Switch

Brocade 5470 embedded switch 8 Gbps 24-port Embedded Switch

Brocade 5480 embedded switch

Brocade 7500 Extension switch

Brocade 7500E Extension switch

FR4-18i

Blade 4 Gbps Router, Extension blades

Brocade AP7600 switch

Brocade 7800 Switch

Brocade 8000 switch

Brocade 8470 FCoE embedded switch

Brocade VA-40FC switch 8 Gbps 40-port Switch

Brocade 415 Host Bus Adapter 4 Gbps 1-port HBA

Brocade 425 Host Bus Adapter 4 Gbps 2-port HBA

Brocade 815 Host Bus Adapter 8 Gbps 1-port HBA

Brocade 825 Host Bus Adapter 8 Gbps 2-port HBA

Brocade 48000 director Director Chassis

Brocade 48000 director with FC4-16, FC4-32, and FC4-48

Brocade 48000 director with FR4-18i

Brocade 48000 director with FC4-16IP

Brocade 48000 director with FC10-6

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX

5

2

3

6

6

6

6

1

1

6

11

10

12

2

Blades Director Chassis with 4 Gbps 16-FC port, 4 Gbps 32-FC port, and 4

Embedded 24-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

64-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

32-port, 4 Gbps FC Interop Switch

40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch

80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch

8 Gbps 12-port Embedded Switch

8 Gbps 24-port Embedded Switch

4 Gbps Router, Extension Switch

4 Gbps Extension Switch

4 Gbps 32-port Switch

8 Gbps 16-FC ports, 6-Gbit ports Extension Switch

24 - 8 Gbps FC Port, 8 - 10 Gbps CEE Port Switch

FCoE Embedded Switch

Gbps 48-FC port

1

Blades Director Chassis with 4 Gbps router, extension blades

2

Blades Director Chassis with 4 Gbps 8-FC port and 8 GbE iSCSI blades

4

Blades Director Chassis with 10 Gbps 6-port ISL blades

7, 14

7, 14

with FC8-16, FC8-32, and FC8-48 Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with 8 Gbps 16-FC port, 8 Gbps 32-FC

384-port Backbone Chassis

port, and 8 Gbps 48-FC port blades

7, 14

with FR4-18i Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with 4 Gbps Router, Extension blade

9, 14

with FC10-6 Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with FC 10 - 6 ISL Blade

8, 14

with FS8-18 Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with Encryption Blade

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TABLE 1 Supported Hardware

Device Name Terminology used in documentation

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade DCX-4S

Brocade Encryption Switch

FS8-18 Encryption Blade Encryption Blade

FA4-18 Application Platform Blade Application Platform Blade

FC8-16 Blade FC 8 GB 16-port Blade

FC8-32 Blade FC 8 GB 32-port Blade

FC8-48 Blade FC 8 GB 48-port Blade

FC10-6 Blade FC 10 - 6 ISL Blade

FCoE10-24 Blade 10 Gig FCoE Port Router Blade

FX8-24 Blade

M4700F Fabric Switch 32-Port, 4 Gbps Switch

M6140 Director 140-Port Director

Mi10K Director 256-Port Director

12, 14

with FX8-24 Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports,

2-10 GbE ports blade

12, 14

with FCoE10-24 Blades 384-port Backbone Chassis with 10 Gbps 24-port FCoE blade

7

9

with FC8-16, FC8-32, and FC8-48 Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with 8 Gbps 16-FC port, 8 Gbps 32-FC

192-port Backbone Chassis

port, and 8 Gbps 48-FC port blades

9

with FR4-18i Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with 4 Gbps Router, Extension blade

9

with FC10-6 Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with FC 10 - 6 ISL Blade

9

with FS8-18 Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with Encryption Blade

12

with FX8-24 Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports,

2-10 GbE ports blade

11,

with FCoE10-24 Blades 192-port Backbone Chassis with 10 Gbps 24-port FCoE blade

8

, 14

8 Gbps Encryption Switch

8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports Extension Blade

1 Platform requires Fabric OS v5.1.0 or later
2 Platform requires Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later
3 Platform requires Fabric OS v5.2.1 or later
4 Platform requires Fabric OS v5.3.0 or later
5 Platform requires Fabric OS v5.3.1 or later
6 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.1.0 or later
7 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.0.0 or later
8 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.1.1_enc or later
9 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.2.0
10 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.1.2_CEE
11 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.3.0 or later
12 Platform requires Fabric OS v6.3.1_CEE
13 Professional Plus Edition can discover , but not manage this Device. Use the device’ s Element Manager, which can be launched from the

Connectivity Map, to manage the device. This device cannot be used as a Seed switch.

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What’s new in this document

The following changes have been made since this document was last released:

• Information that was added:

• Added View All list

• Added Export to Toolbox

• Added CNA icons

• Added procedure - Clearing previous version of the remote client

• Added procedure - Launching the Configuration Wizard

• Added procedure - Installing a patch

• Added procedure - Uninstalling a patch

• Added topic - VMware vCenter plug in

• Added topic SMIA Configuration tool

• Added procedure - Exporting storage port mapping

• Added procedure - Copying technical support information to an external FTP server

• Added procedure - Setting up advanced event filtering for the Master Log

• Added procedure - Removing an advanced event filter

• Added Managed CNA Ports to Performance chapter

• Added Firmware download troubleshooting

• Added Launch Client troubleshooting

• Added Performance troubleshooting

• Added Port Fencing troubleshooting

• Added Server Management Console troubleshooting

• Added View All list troubleshooting

• Added privilege - SMIA Operations

• Information that was changed:

• Changed View tab to SAN tab

• Moved Menu bar table to Appendix

• Changed AG icons

• Moved Management server and client section to Chapter 1 Getting Started

• Changed procedure - Discovering a fabric

• Changed topic - Fabric Monitoring

• Changed topic - seed switch failover

• Moved Call Home to new chapter

• Moved View Management and Topology to new chapter

• Moved Third party tools to new chapter

• Changed topic - Fabric tracking

• Changed SAN menu to Server menu

• Changed procedure - Backing up a switch configuration

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• Changed procedure - Download firmware

• Changed HBA Sever Mapping to Host Port Mapping

• Changed procedure - Scheduling technical support information collection

• Changed procedure - Starting immediate technical support information collection

• Changed procedure - Launching scripts

• Changed procedure - Setting up advanced event filtering for a user

• Changed topic - Syslog forwarding

• Changed Top Talkers dialog box

• Changed topic - Thresholds and event notification

• Moved Reports from Monitor menu to menu bar

• Made Port Fencing a chapter

• Changed procedure - Viewing the list of users

• Changed procedure - Assigning a user to a resource group

• Changed procedure - Removing a user from a resource group

• Changed procedure - Activating a PDCM configuration

• Changed topic - Cascaded FICON fabric

• Changed procedure - Configuring a cascaded FICON fabric

• Changed procedure - Cascaded FICON fabric merge

• Changed topic - POrt Groups

• Changed procedure - Adding a detached device

• Changed Supportsave troubleshooting

• Changed topic - Privileges and Application Behavior table

• Information that was deleted:

• Removed EMC E-mail and HP Modem call home centers.

For further information about new features and documentation updates for this release, refer to
the release notes.

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