Brocade Communications Systems SN3000B, Web Tools Administrator's Manual

53-1002152-01

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29 April 2011

Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0

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Document History

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.0 53-0001536-01 N/A September 1999

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.2 53-0001558-02 N/A May 2000

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.3 53-0000067-02 N/A December 2000

Web Tools User’s Guide v3.0 53-0000130-03 N/A July 2001

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.6 53-0000197-02 N/A December 2001

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.0 / v4.0

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.0.2

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.1.0

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.0

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.2

Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide, v4.2.0

Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide

Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-08 Updates to support new switch types

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-09 Updates to add additional information

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-01 Updates to support new switch types

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-02 Updates to the FCIP chapter to clarify

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000194-01 Updates for Fabric OS v5.2.0 and the

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000435-01 Updates to reflect interface

53-0000185-02 N/A March 2002

53-0000185-03 N/A September 2002

53-0000503-02 N/A April 2003

53-0000522-02 N/A April 2003

53-0000522-04 Insistent Domain ID Mode.

Port Swapping information. Minor
editorial changes.

53-0000522-05 Updates to support new switch types:

Brocade 3250, 3850, 24000.
Structural changes, support changes,
installation changes.

53-0000522-06 Clarifications on software and hardware

support, minor enhancements in
procedure text, minor rearranging of
content.

53-0000522-07 Updates to support new switch types

(3016, 4100) and Fabric OS v4.4.0,
including Ports on Demand, user
administration, and zoning wizards.

(200E, 48000) and Fabric OS v5.0.1,
including switchAdmin role, upfront
login, and Web Tools EZ.

about refresh and polling rates.

(4900, 7500) and Fabric OS v5.1.0,
including FCR, FCIP, and the FR4-18i
port blade. Web Tools EZ information is
moved to a separate book.

how to configure tunnels.

FC4-16IP blade. Also new security for
Web Tools, including Role-Based Access
Control and administrative domains.

enhancements, support for new switch
types, IPv6 support, and other
enhancements.

October 2003

December 2003

March 2004

September 2004

April 2005

July 2005

January 2006

April 2006

September 2006

June 2007

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-01 Updates to reflect updates to enhanced

Access Gateway support, changes to
FCIP tunneling wizard, and other
enhancements.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-02 Updates for support for new switches,

traffic isolation zoning, F_Port trunking,
removal of enhanced Access Gateway
support, and other enhancements.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001080-01 Updates to add features that require

the Enhanced Group Management
license, removal of features that are
now available from the Brocade
Network Advisor.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001133-01 Updates to add support for Brocade

Encryption Switch and FS8-18
Encryption Blade.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001194-01 Updates to add support for Virtual

Fabrics, IPsec, and consistency with
Brocade Network Advisor.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001343-01 Updates to add suppor t for Brocade

7800 Extension Switch, Brocade 8000,
FCOE10-24 DCX Blade, and FX8-24 DCX
Extension Blade.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001772-01 Updates to add suppor t for Brocade

Fabric OS 6.4.0.

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1002152-01 Updates to add support for Brocade

Fabric OS 7.0.0.

October 2007

March 2008

July 2008

August 2008

November 2008

July 2009

March 2010

April 2011

Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii

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

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii

Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools

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

Web Tools overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . 1

Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor . . . 3

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications . . . 6

Java installation on the workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation. . . 7

Installing patches on Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Java plug-in configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers . . . . . . 9

Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Persisting GUI preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Switch Events and Switch Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Free Professional Management tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Refresh rates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Setting a slot-level IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Viewing IP addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Switch restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

WWN-based Persistent PID assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Configuring arbitrated loop parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Assigning slots for a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Universal time-based licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Launching the High Availability window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Synchronizing services on the CP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Initiating a CP failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . .52

Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . .52

Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Viewing logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

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Admin Domain configuration maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Chapter 5 Managing Administrative Domains

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Saving local Admin Domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Adding ports or switches to the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Modifying Admin Domain members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Renaming Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Deleting Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Clearing the Admin Domain configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Chapter 6 Managing Ports

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Opening the Port Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Allowed port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Ingress rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

Port beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?. . . . . . . . . . . .84

Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Configuring NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

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Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Diagnostic ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis . . . . . . . . . . .89

Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Determining if a port index was swapped

with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring ALPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring Port Octet Speed Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Configuring CSCTL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Inband Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

Chapter 7 Enabling ISL Trunking

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

ISL Trunking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Viewing trunk group information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Chapter 8 Monitoring Performance

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Performance Monitor overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Basic monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Advanced monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Predefined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

User-defined graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Canvas configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Creating basic performance monitor graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Advanced performance monitoring graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Creating SID-DID Performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Creating the SCSI vs. IP Traffic graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Creating SCSI command graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

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Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Printing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Modifying graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Chapter 9 Administering Zoning

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Basic zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Traffic Isolation zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

LSAN zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

QoS zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Opening the Zone Admin window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Refreshing Zone Admin window information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Selecting a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .124

Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Cloning zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones . . .128

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Zone configuration and zoning database management . . . . . . . .128

Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . .130

Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Cloning zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without

opening the Zone Admin window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Viewing detailed information about the enabled

zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .134

Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones. . . . . . . . . . .134

Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Clearing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Zone configuration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Chapter 10 Working with Diagnostic Features

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

How a trace dump is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Disabling automatic trace uploads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Viewing detailed fan hardware status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Viewing the temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Viewing the power supply status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Chapter 11 Using the FC-FC Routing Service

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Defining Switch Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Port LED interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Port icon colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Fibre Channel Routing overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Setting up FC-FC routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

FC-FC routing management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Opening the FC Routing module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Viewing EX_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Configuring an EX_Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Editing the configuration of an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Configuring FCR router port cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Viewing LSAN zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Viewing LSAN devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Configuring the backbone fabric ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Chapter 12 Using the Access Gateway

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Access Gateway overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Restricted access in the Port Administration window . . . . . . .155

Enabling Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Viewing the Access Gateway settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Editing or viewing port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Deleting port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Defining custom primary F-N port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Defining custom static F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Defining custom WWN-N port mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Access Gateway policy modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Modifying Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . .161

Chapter 13 Administering Fabric Watch

Chapter 14 Administering Extended Fabrics

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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Extended link buffer allocation overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Configuring a port for long distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

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Routing overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Viewing fabric shortest path first routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Configuring dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Lossless dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Configuring the link cost for a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Chapter 16 Configuring Standard Security Features

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

User-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Viewing user account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Creating user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Deleting user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Changing user account parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Maintaining passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181

User-defined roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Creating a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Editing a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Access control list policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186

Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Creating an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Editing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Deleting all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Activating all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Distributing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Moving an FCS policy switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Configuring Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Authentication policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Configuring authentication policies for E_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .191

Configuring authentication policies for F_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .192

Distributing authentication policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Re-authenticating policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Setting a shared secret key pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Modifying a shared secret key pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Setting the Switch Policy Authentication mode . . . . . . . . . . . .193

SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

Setting SNMP trap levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

Changing the systemGroup configuration parameters . . . . . .194

Setting SNMPv1 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

Setting SNMPv3 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Changing the access control configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

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RADIUS management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Enabling and disabling RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Configuring RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Modifying the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Modifying the RADIUS server order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Removing a RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198

Active Directory service management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Enabling Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Modifying Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Removing Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

IPsec concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

Transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

IPsec header options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

Basic IPsec configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Internet Key Exchange concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

IPsec over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

FCIP Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Accessing the IPsec Policies dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Establishing an IKE policy for an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Establishing an IPsec policy for an FCIP tunnel. . . . . . . . . . . .207

IPsec over management ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Enabling the Ethernet IPsec policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

Establishing an IKE policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

Creating a security association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Creating an SA proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Adding an IPsec transform policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Adding an IPsec selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Manually creating an SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Editing an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

Deleting an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

Establishing authentication policies for HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213

Chapter 17 Administering FICON CUP Fabrics

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

FICON CUP fabrics overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

Enabling port-based routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . . 217

FMS parameter configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218

Configuring FMS mode parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

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Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Viewing Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . .221

Modifying Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations . . . . . . . . . . .221

Activating an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . .223

Copying an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration. . . . . . . . . . .223

Deleting an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . .224

CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Viewing CUP logical path configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Configuring CUP logical paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224

Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations . .225

Configuring LIRRs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

Chapter 18 Configuring FCoE with Web Tools

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227

Web Tools and FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor . . . . .228

Port information that is unique to FCoE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Switch administration and FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

FC0E configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Quality of Service configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230

Editing the DCB map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230

Adding a traffic class map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

LLDP-DCBX configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

Configuring global LLDP characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232

Adding an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233

Configuring DCB interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234

Configuring a link aggregation group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236

Configuring FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237

Displaying FCoE port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

Displaying LAG information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Displaying FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Displaying QoS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Displaying LLDP-DCBX information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

Displaying DCB interface statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

Configuring a DCB interface from the Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . .240

Configuring a DCB interface from the Port Admin panel . . . . . . . . 241

Enabling and disabling a LAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

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Enabling and disabling LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control . . . . . . . . .242

Enabling and disabling FCoE ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242

Chapter 19 Limitations

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

General Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

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Figures

Figure 1 Configuring Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Figure 2 Default Java for browsers option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 3 Web Tools interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 4 Virtual Fabric login option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 5 Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 6 USB port storage management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 7 Right-click menu for ports (from Switch Explorer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Figure 8 Switch Administration window, Switch tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 9 Blade tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 10 High Availability window, CP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 11 Information dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Figure 12 Fabric ID selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Figure 13 Port swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 14 Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 15 ALPA Map selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 16 ALPA Map dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 17 FC Explorer dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 18 Port Octet Speed Combination dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 19 Trunking tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Figure 20 Accessing performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Figure 21 Canvas of six performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Figure 22 Select Ports for customizing the Switch Throughput Utilization graph . . . . . . 110

Figure 23 Zone Admin window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Figure 24 Sample zoning database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Figure 25 Temperature Sensor States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Figure 26 Fan States window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Figure 27 Power States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Figure 28 Switch Report window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Figure 29 Switch Status Policy dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Figure 30 Switch Explorer view for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Figure 31 Access Gateway Auto Rebalancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Figure 32 Extended Fabric tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Figure 33 Routing tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Figure 34 User tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Figure 35 Add User Account dialog box (VF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Figure 36 Add User Account dialog box (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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Figure 37 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Figure 38 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Figure 39 Transport mode and tunnel mode comparison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Figure 40 AH header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Figure 41 ESP header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Figure 42 Edit Allow / Prohibit Matrix dialog box swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Figure 43 Allow / Prohibit Matrix Configuration dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Figure 44 Switch RNID information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Figure 45 Switch Administration DCB subtabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Figure 46 FCoE Ports tab, Port Administration panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

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Tables

Tab le 1 Basic Web Tools features and EGM licensed features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Tab le 2 Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Tab le 3 Certified and tested platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tab le 4 Supported platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tab le 5 Predefined Web Tools roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Tab le 6 Polling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Tab le 7 Switches that support WWN-based Persistent PID on Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Tab le 8 Event severity levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Tab le 9 Ports enabled with POD licenses and DPOD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Tab le 10 Port octet speed combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Tab le 11 Basic performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Tab le 12 Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Tab le 13 Supported port types for Brocade switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Tab le 14 QoS zone name prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Tab le 15 Long-distance settings and license requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Tab le 16 User role and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Table 17 Relevant RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Tab le 18 Encryption algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Tab le 19 Hash algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Tab le 20 FMS mode parameter descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Tab le 21 Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.

The document contains the following components:

• Chapter 1, “Introducing Web Tools” provides some basic information about the Web Tools

interface, including system requirements and installation instructions.

• Chapter 2, “Using the Web Tools Interface” describes the components of the Web Tools

interface.

• Chapter 3, “Managing Fabrics and Switches” provides information on how to manage your

fabric and switches using the Web Tools interface.

• Chapter 4, “Maintaining Configurations and Firmware” provides information about uploading

and downloading configuration files and downloading firmware.

• Chapter 5, “Managing Administrative Domains” provides information on managing Admin

Domains.

• Chapter 6, “Managing Ports” provides information about managing FC and GbE ports.

• Chapter 7, “Enabling ISL Trunking” provides information on managing the licensed ISL Trunking

feature.

• Chapter 8, “Monitoring Performance” provides information on how to use the Brocade

Advanced Performance Monitoring feature to monitor your fabric performance.

• Chapter 9, “Administering Zoning” provides information on how to use the Brocade Advanced

Zoning feature to partition your storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices that
can access each other.

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• Chapter 10, “Working with Diagnostic Features” provides information about trace dumps,

viewing switch health, and interpreting the LEDs.

• Chapter 11, “Using the FC-FC Routing Service” provides information on using the FC-FC

Routing Service to share devices between fabrics without merging those fabrics.

• Chapter 12, “Using the Access Gateway” provides information on how to configure and manage

the Brocade Access Gateway.

• Chapter 13, “Administering Fabric Watch” provides information on how to use the Fabric Watch

feature to monitor the performance and status of switches and alert you when problems arise.

• Chapter 14, “Administering Extended Fabrics” provides information on how to configure a port

for long distance.

• Chapter 15, “Routing Traffic” provides information on how to configure routes.

• Chapter 16, “Configuring Standard Security Features” provides information on managing user

accounts, SNMP, and the RADIUS server.

• Chapter 17, “Administering FICON CUP Fabrics” provides information on how to administer and

manage FICON CUP fabrics. You can enable FMS mode, edit and create configurations, and
edit FMS parameters.

• Chapter 18, “Configuring FCoE with Web Tools” provides information on how to configure FCoE

features.

• Chapter 19, “Limitations” discusses limitations of and provides workarounds for using Web

Tools.

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 Fabric OS v7.0.0, documenting all possible
configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

The following hardware platforms are supported by this release:

• Brocade 300

• Brocade 5100

• Brocade 5300

• Brocade 5410

• Brocade 5424

• Brocade 5450

• Brocade 5460

• Brocade 5470

• Brocade 5480

• Brocade NC-5480

• Brocade 6510

• Brocade 7800 Extension

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• Brocade 8000

• Brocade DCX 8510-4

• Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone

• Brocade DCX Backbone

• Brocade DCX-4S Backbone

• Brocade Encryption Switch

• Brocade VA-40FC

The following blades are supported by this release:

• Brocade CORE 8 blade

• Brocade CP8 blade

• Brocade CR16-4 blade

• Brocade CR16-8 blade

• Brocade CR4S-8 blade

• Brocade FC10-6 port blade

• Brocade FC16-32 port blade

• Brocade FC16-48 port blade

• Brocade FC8-16 port blade

• Brocade FC8-32 port blade

• Brocade FC8-48 port blade

• Brocade FC8-64 port blade

• Brocade FCOE10-24 blade

• Brocade FR4-18i router blade

• Brocade FS8-18 Encryption blade

• Brocade FX8-24 Extension blade

What’s new in this document

The following major additions have been made since this document was last released:

• DCFM has been changed to Brocade Network Advisor.

• CEE has been changed to DCB.

• Fabric Watch enhancements.

• User-defined roles

• Persistant user preferences

• Port octet speed combination support

• CSCTL mode support

• Inband management configuration support

• Support for port names of 128 characters.

For further information, refer to the release notes.

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Document conventions

NOTE

ATTENTION

CAUTION

DANGER

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are:

bold text Identifies command names

italic text Provides emphasis

code text Identifies CLI output

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles

Identifies command syntax examples

Notes, cautions, and warnings

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.

A note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a
reference to related information.

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause
damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely
hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions
or situations.

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Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These
trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

These references are made for informational purposes only.

Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products

Microsoft Corporation Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Vista

Oracle Corporation Oracle, Solaris

Netscape Communications Corporation Netscape

Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Red Hat Network, Maximum RPM, Linux Undercover

Mozilla Firefox

Business, Windows XP- SP3,Internet Explorer

Additional information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find
helpful.

Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, go to http://my.brocade.com and register at no cost for a user
ID and password.

White papers, online demonstrations, and data sheets are available through the Brocade website
at:

http://www.brocade.com/products-solutions/products/index.page

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade website:

http://my.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade website and are also bundled with the Fabric OS
firmware.

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Other industry resources

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 website. This website
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre
Channel, storage management, and other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association
website:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Getting technical help

Contact your switch support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including
product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information available:

1. General Information

• Switch model

• Switch operating system version

• Software name and software version, if applicable

• Error numbers and messages received

• supportSave command output

• Detailed description of the problem, including the switch or fabric behavior immediately

following the problem, and specific questions

• Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results

• Serial console and Telnet session logs

• syslog message logs

2. Switch Serial Number

The switch serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial number label,
as illustrated below:

*FT00X0054E9*

FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade 300, 5100, 5200, 5300, 6510, 7800, 8000, VA-40FC, and Brocade Encryption

Switch—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the left.

• Brocade 5000—On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the

switch.

• Brocade 7600—On the bottom of the chassis.

• Brocade DCX and 8510-8—On the bottom right on the port side of the chassis.

• Brocade DCX-4S and 8510-4—On the bottom right on the port side of the chassis, directly

above the cable management comb.

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• Brocade 8000 —On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis on the port side

on the left.

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the licenseIdShow command to display the WWN of the chassis.

If you cannot use the licenseIdShow command because the switch is inoperable, you can get
the WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX. For the
Brocade DCX, access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate at
the top of the nonport side of the chassis.

Document feedback

Quality is our first concern at Brocade and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and
completeness of this document. However, if you find an error or an omission, or you think that a
topic needs further development, we want to hear from you. Forward your feedback to:

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Provide the title and version number of the document and as much detail as possible about your
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Chapter

Introducing Web Tools

In this chapter

•Web Tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

•Java installation on the workstation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

•Java plug-in configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

•Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

•Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

•Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

•Session management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

•Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

•Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Web Tools overview

Brocade Web Tools is an embedded graphical user interface (GUI) that enables administrators to
monitor and manage single or small fabrics, switches, and ports. Web Tools is launched directly
from a web browser, or from the Brocade Network Advisor.

A limited set of features is accessible using Web Tools without a license, and is available free of
charge. Additional switch management features are accessible using Web Tools with the Enhanced
Group Management (EGM) license. Refer to “Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network

Advisor” for more information.

Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor

Beginning with Fabric OS version 6.1.1, Web Tools functionality is tiered and integrated with
Brocade Network Advisor. If you are migrating from a Web Tools release prior to Fabric OS version

6.1.1, this may impact how you use Web Tools.

A Web Tools license is not required, and a basic version of Web Tools is available for free.
Additional functionality may be added by obtaining the Enhanced Group Management (EGM)
license. Tab le 1 compares Basic Web Tools features to Web Tools with the EGM license. The EGM
license is only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the Encryption Switch, and the 300, 5100, and 5300
switches. For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without the EGM license.

Beginning with Fabric OS version 6.1.1, some Web Tools capabilities are moved from Web Tools to
Brocade Network Advisor. Tabl e 2 summarizes these changes.

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Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license

Tab le 1 describes those Web Tools features that require the EGM license.

TABLE 1 Basic Web Tools features and EGM licensed features

Feature Basic Web Tools Web Tools with EGM License

Active Directory support yes yes

AD Context Switching no yes

AD filtered views yes yes

Admin Domain Management no yes

AG Management yes yes

Analyze zone config no no

Basic Zoning and TI Zoning yes yes

Blade Management yes yes

Cloning a zone no yes

Configuration upload/download yes yes

Convenience function from Tools menu no no

Device Accessibility Matrix no no

Easy to configure iSCSI wizard yes yes

Extended Fabric Management no yes

F_Port Trunk Management no yes

Fabric Events no no

Fabric Summary no no

Fabric Tree yes yes

FCIP Tunnel configuration no no

FCIP Tunnel Display yes yes

FCR Management yes yes

FCR Port Config yes yes

FICON CUP Tab no yes

FRU Monitoring yes yes

High Availability yes yes

IP Sec Policies yes yes

ISL Trunk Management no yes

ISL Trunking information yes yes

License Management yes yes

Long Distance no yes

Logical Switch Context Switching no yes

Allow/Prohibit Matrix no yes

Performance Monitoring Dialog no yes

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TABLE 1 Basic Web Tools features and EGM licensed features (Continued)

Feature Basic Web Tools Web Tools with EGM License

Port Administration yes yes

Print zone database summary no no

RBAC yes yes

Routing and DLS Configuration no yes

Security Policies Tab (like ACL) yes yes

Switch Info tab yes yes

Switch Status yes yes

Switch View right-click options yes yes

Trace dump yes yes

USB Management yes yes

User Management yes yes

Verify and troubleshoot accessibility
between devices

yes yes

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Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor

The functionality that was moved from Web Tools into Brocade Network Advisor is detailed in

Tab le 2.

TABLE 2 Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor

Function Web Tools 6.1.0 Brocade Network Advisor Comments

Add Un-Zoned
Devices

Analyze Zone
Config

Define Device
Alias

Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

Reverse Find in the Zoning dialog box
provides the view of the zoned and unzoned
devices in the fabric if all zone members are
selected for Find.

Zone Admin 1 Configure > Zoning:

Reverse Find in the Zoning dialog box
provides the view of the zoned and
unzoned devices in the fabric if all zone
members are selected for Find.

2 Device Tree and Topology:

Connected End Devices — Custom
Display from the top level in the main
frame provides the device tree and
topology view for all the zoned devices
if all zones are selected in the active
zone configuration.

Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

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TABLE 2 Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor (Continued)

Function Web Tools 6.1.0 Brocade Network Advisor Comments

Device
Accessibility
Matrix

Fabric Events Monitor > Fabric Events Monitor > Logs > Events

Fabric
Summary

FCIP Tunnel
Configuration

GigE Ports
Interface

GigE Ports
Route

Non-local
switch ports
display in
zoning tree

Remove
Offline or
Inaccessible
Devices

Zone database
summary print

Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

the Compare dialog box provides the
Storage-Host and Host-Storage view in a
tree representation that is comparable to
the Device Accessibility Matrix when all
devices are selected.

Reports > Fabric
Summary

Port Admin Module > GigE
tab

Port Admin Module > GigE
tab

Port Admin Module > GigE
tab

Zone Admin
Admin Domain
Switch Admin > DCC
policies
Performance Monitoring

Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

Monitor > Reports > Fabric Summary Report

Configure > FCIP Tunnel Viewing FCIP

Configure > FCIP Tunnel

Configure > FCIP Tunnel

Configure > Zoning In Web Tools,

Replace/Replace All zone members by
selecting the offline devices from the zone
tree. Offline devices have an unknown
overlay badge with good visibility.

Zoning report for both online and offline
database.

tunnels is still
supported in Web
Tools 6.1.1, but
New, Edit Config,
and delete are
only available in
Brocade Network
Advisor.

non-local switch
port id/WWN can
be added using
text box.

System requirements

Before you install Web Tools on your workstation, verify that your switches and workstation meet
the Web Tools requirements listed in this chapter.

Web Tools requires any browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0, JavaScript version 1.0, and
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_24 or later.

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Brocade has certified and tested Web Tools on the platforms shown in Table 3.

TABLE 3 Certified and tested platforms

Operating System Browser

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) Internet Explorer 8.0

Windows Server 2008 Standard Internet Explorer 7.0

Windows Vista Business Internet Explorer 7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 Advanced
Platform

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Internet Explorer 7.0

Internet Explorer 7.0

Brocade supports the platforms shown in Tab le 4.

TABLE 4 Supported platforms

Operating System Browser

1

Red Hat AS 4.0 (x86 32-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Adv (x86 32-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86 32-bit)

Windows 2000 Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6.0

Windows 2003 Server, SP2 Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0

Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86 32-bit) Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0

Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 (x86
32-bit)

Windows Server 2008 Standard Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0

Windows 7 Professional (x86) Firefox 2.0

Solaris 9 (SPARC only)
Solaris 10 (SPARC only)

Firefox 2.0

Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0

Firefox 2.0

For Windows systems, a minimum of 256 MB of RAM for fabrics comprising up to 15 switches, 512
MB of RAM for fabrics comprising more than 15 switches, and a minimum of 8 MB of video RAM
are recommended. Additionally, a DCX with a fully populated FC8-64 blade requires a minimum of
512 MB of RAM.

Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer

Correct operation of Web Tools with Internet Explorer requires specifying the appropriate settings
for browser refresh frequency and process model. Browser pages should be refreshed frequently to
ensure the correct operation of Web Tools.

To set the Internet Explorer options, perform the following steps.

1. Open your web browser and select Tools > Internet Options.

2. Select General > Temporary Internet Files > Settings.

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3. Choose Every visit to the page under “Check for newer versions of stored pages:” as shown in

Figure 1 on page 6.

FIGURE 1 Configuring Internet Explorer

Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications

For Web Tools to operate correctly, you must delete the temporary internet files used by Java
applications.

To delete these files, perform the following steps.

1. From the Control Panel, open Java.

2. Select the General tab and click Settings.

3. Click Delete Files to remove the temporary files used by Java applications.

4. Click OK on the confirmation dialog box.

You can clear the Trace and Log files check box if you want to keep those files.

5. Click OK.

6. On the Java Control Panel, click View to review the files that are in the Java cache.

If you have deleted all the temporary files, the list is empty.

Java installation on the workstation

Java Plug-in must be installed on the workstation. If you attempt to open Web Tools without any
Java Plug-in installed:

• Internet Explorer automatically prompts and downloads the proper Java Plug-in.

• Firefox downloads the most recently released Java Plug-in.

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NOTE

If you attempt to open Web Tools with a later version of Java Plug-in installed:

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• Internet Explorer might prompt for an upgrade, depending on the existing Java Plug-in version.

• Firefox uses the existing Java Plug-in.

Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation

To do the JRE installation, perform the following steps.

1. Locate the JRE on the Internet, at the following URL:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/6/index.html

This URL points to a non-Brocade website and is subject to change without notice.

2. Click Download JRE.

3. Follow the instructions to install the JRE.

4. Create a symbolic link from this location:

$FIREFOX/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

To this location:

$JRE/plugin/$ARCH/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Installing patches on Solaris

To install patches on Solaris, perform the following steps.

1. Search for any required patches for your current version of the JRE at the following website:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patchpage

This URL points to a non-Brocade website and is subject to change without notice.

2. Follow the link to download the patch

3. Exit the browser when you have downloaded the patch.

4. Install the patch and restart the system.

Installing the Java plug-in on Windows

To Install the Java plug-in on Windows, perform the following steps.

1. Select Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel and select the Java Plug-in Control Panel.

2. Select the About tab.

3. Determine whether the correct Java Plug-in version is installed:

• If the correct version is installed, Web Tools is ready to use.

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• If no Java Plug-in is installed, point the browser to a switch running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or later

to install JRE 1.6.0. For Fabric OS 6.3.0 install JRE 1.6.0 update 13. Web Tools guides you
through the steps to download the proper Java Plug-in.

• If an outdated version is currently installed, uninstall it, restart your computer, reopen the

browser, and enter the address of a switch running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or later to install JRE

1.6.0. For Fabric OS 6.3.0 install JRE 1.6.0 update 13. Web Tools guides you through the
steps to download the proper Java Plug-in.

Java plug-in configuration

If you are managing fabrics with more than 10 switches or 1000 ports, or if you are using the iSCSI
Gateway module extensively, you should increase the default heap size to 256 MB to avoid
out-of-memory errors.

If you are using a Mozilla family browser (Firefox, Netscape), you should set the default browser in
the Java control panel.

The following procedures instruct you in increasing the default heap size in the Java Control Panel
and in setting the default browser.

Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows

To configure Java plug-in for Windows, perform the following steps.

1. From the Start menu, select Settings > Control Panel > Java.

2. Click the Java tab.

3. In the section Java Applet Runtime Settings, click View.

The Java Runtime Settings dialog box displays.

4. Double-click the Java Runtime Parameters field and enter the following information to set the
minimum and maximum heap size:

-Xms256m -Xmx256m

In this example, the minimum and maximum sizes are both 256 MB.

5. Click Apply to apply your settings and close the Java Control Panel.

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Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers

To configure Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers, perform the following steps.

1. From the Start menu, select Settings > Control Panel.

2. Click the Advanced tab and expand the Default Java for browsers option, as shown in Figure 2
on page 9.

FIGURE 2 Default Java for browsers option

3. Select Mozilla family and click OK.

4. Click OK to apply your settings and close the Java Control Panel.

Value line licenses

If you open Web Tools on a switch with a limited license, and if the fabric exceeds the switch limit
indicated in the license, then Web Tools displays a warning message. Web Tools allows a 30-day
grace period, during which you can still monitor the switch while continuing to display warning
messages periodically.

These messages warn you that your fabric size exceeds the supported switch configuration limit
and tells you how long you have before Web Tools is disabled. After the 30-day grace period, you
are no longer able to open Web Tools from the switch with the limited switch license.

Web Tools is part of the Fabric OS of a switch. When you open Web Tools on a switch, you can
manage other switches in the fabric that have lower or higher firmware versions. It is important to
note that when accessing these switches you are opening the remote switch’s version of Web
Tools, and the functionality available for those switches might vary.

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NOTE

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Opening Web Tools

You can open Web Tools on any workstation with a compatible Web browser installed. For a list of
Web browsers compatible with Fabric OS v7.0.0, refer to Table 3. Web Tools supports both HTTP
and HTTPS protocol.

To open Web Tools, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Web browser and enter the IP address of the device in the Address field, such as:

http://10.77.77.77

or

https://10.77.77.77

2. Press Enter.

The Web Tools login dialog box displays. Refer to “Logging in” on page 11 for more information.

If you are using Firefox, the browser window is left open. You can close it anytime after the login
dialog box displays. If you are using Internet Explorer, the browser window automatically closes
when the login dialog box displays.

If you have installed EZSwitchSetup on your workstation, the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager
displays the first time you access the device. EZSwitchSetup provides an easy to use wizard
interface that may be used to simplify the initial setup procedure for smaller switches. Refer to
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide for information about the EZSwitchSetup interface.

If you want to use Web Tools instead of EZSwitchSetup, click Advanced Management in the
lower-left corner of the window to open the Web Tools interface. This book describes only the
Web Tools interface.

FIGURE 3 Web Tools interface

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Logging in

When you use Web Tools, you must log in before you can view or modify any switch information.
This section describes the login process.

Prior to displaying the login window, Web Tools displays a security banner (if one is configured for
your switch), that you must accept before logging in. The security banner displays every time you
access the switch.

When you are presented with the login screen you must provide a user name and a password. Your
home Admin Domain is automatically selected. You can select to log in to an Admin Domain other
than your home domain.

You must login before you can view Switch Explorer (shown in Figure 3 on page 10).

Use this procedure to log in to the Admin Domain.

1. Click Run on the signed certificate applet.

A warning dialog box may display. If you select the check box Always trust content from this
publisher, the warning dialog box is not displayed when you open Web Tools again.

2. Click OK in the security banner window, if one displays.

3. In the login dialog box, enter your user name and password.

If your current password has expired, you must also provide a new password and confirm the
new password.

Logging in to a Virtual Fabric

If you are logging in to a platform that is capable of supporting Virtual Fabrics, the login dialog box
provides the option of logging in to a virtual fabric. The following platforms support virtual fabrics:

• Brocade DCX and DCX-4S

• Brocade VA-40FC

• Brocade 6510

• Brocade DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4

• Brocade 5300

• Brocade 5100

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To log in to a Virtual Fabric, perform the following steps.

1. Select Options to display the Virtual Fabric options.

You are given a choice between Home Logical Fabric and User Specified Virtual Fabric
(Figure 4). Home Logical Fabric is the default.

FIGURE 4 Virtual Fabric login option

2. Log in to a logical fabric.

• To log in to the home logical fabric, select Home Logical Fabric and click OK.

• To log in to a logical fabric other than the home logical fabric, select User Specified Logical

Fabric, enter the fabric ID number, and click OK.

Logging in to an Admin Domain

If you are logging in to a platform that is capable of supporting Admin Domains, the login dialog box
displays. You do not have an Admin Domain option if the Access Gateway mode is enabled. Admin
Domains and Virtual Fabrics are mutually exclusive.

1. Select Options to select an Admin Domain other than your default home domain.

You are given a choice of Home Domain (the default), or User Specified Domain.

2. Log in to an Admin Domain.

• To log in to the home domain, select Home Domain and click OK.

• To log in to an Admin Domain other than the home domain, select User Specified Domain,

enter the Admin Domain name or number, and click OK.

If the user name or password is incorrect, a dialog box displays indicating an authentication
failure.

If you entered valid credentials, but specified an invalid Admin Domain, a dialog box displays
from which you can select a valid Admin Domain or click Cancel to log in to your home domain.

Logging out

You can end a Web Tools session either by selecting Manage > Log Out, or by closing the Switch
Explorer window.

You might be logged out of a session involuntarily, without explicitly selecting the Manage > Log
Out, under the following conditions:

• A physical fabric administrator changes the contents of your currently selected Admin Domain.

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• Your currently selected Admin Domain is removed or invalidated.

• Your currently selected Admin Domain is removed from your Admin Domain list.

• You initiate a firmware download from Web Tool’s Switch Administration window. In this case,

you are logged out a few minutes later when the switch restarts.

• Your session times out.

Role-Based Access Control

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) defines the capabilities that a user account has based on the
assigned role. For each role, there is a set of predefined permissions on the jobs and tasks that can
be performed on a fabric and its associated fabric elements.

When you log in to a switch, your user account is associated with a predefined role. The role
determines the level of access you have on that switch and in the fabric. Table 5 describes these
roles.

For information about creating unique user account roles, refer to “User-defined accounts” on
page 175.

TABLE 5 Predefined Web Tools roles

Role Description

Role-Based Access Control

1

admin You have full access to all of the Web Tools features.

operator You can perform any actions on the switch that do not affect the stored configuration.

securityadmin You can perform actions that do not affect the stored configuration.

switchadmin You can perform all actions on the switch, except the following:

zoneadmin You can only create and modify zones.

fabricadmin You can do everything the Admin role can do except create new users.

basicswitchadmin You have a subset of Admin level access.

user You have nonadministrative access and can perform tasks such as monitoring

Session management

A Web Tools session is the connection between the Web Tools client and its managed switch. A
session is established when you log in to a switch through Web Tools. When you close Switch
Explorer, Web Tools ends the session.

A session remains in effect until one of the following happens:

• You cannot modify zoning configurations.

• You cannot create new accounts.

• You cannot view or change account information for any accounts. You can only

view your own account and change your account password.

system activity.

• You log out

• You close the Switch Explorer window

• The session ends due to inactivity (time out)

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A session automatically ends if no information was sent to the switch for more than two hours.
Because user key strokes are not sent to the switch until you apply or save the information, it is
possible for your session to end while you are entering information in the interface. For example,
entering a zoning scheme in the Zoning module does not require you to send information to the
switch until you save the scheme.

Web Tools does not display a warning when the session is about to time out. If your session ends
due to inactivity, all Web Tools windows become invalid and you must restart Web Tools and log in
again.

Web Tools enables sessions to both secure and nonsecure switches.

Access rights for your session are determined by your role-based access rights and by the contents
of your selected Admin Domain. After you log in, you can change to a different Admin Domain at any
time. However, you cannot change your role-based permissions.

Ending a Web Tools session

To end a Web Tools session, perform one of the following actions:

• Select Manage > Logout.

• Click the X in the upper-right corner of the Switch Explorer window to close it.

• Close all open Web Tools windows.

Web Tools system logs

Web Tools uses the log4j framework to write the logs into a file

When you launch Web Tools for the first time, it automatically creates the following directories.
These directories are created under Web Tools directory if they are not available:

• A <Web Tools> directory under the user home directory.

• The Web Tools Switch Support Save directory with the name format <Core Switch Name-Switch

IP Address-Switch WWN>.

The Web Tools Switch Support Save directory contains the following files:

• Log4j.xml

• WebTools.log

• SwitchInfo.txt

The SwitchInfo.txt file contains the following basic switch information:

• Switch Name

• Fabric OS version

• Switch Type

• Ethernet Ipv4

• Ethernet IPv4 subnet mask

• Ethernet IPv4 gateway

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The maximum size of the webtools.log file is 2MB. It is rolled into new file when the 5mb file size
limit is exceeded. A backup file named webtools1.log is automatically created. Web Tools maintains
only one webtools.log backup file at a time.

The Web Tools debug dialog box can be used to enable the debug state and level for a module at
runtime.

If you are familiar with XML scripting, you can edit the configuration file (log4j.xml) to collect the
data at startup. If you edit the configuration file, Web Tools need to be restarted. Contact your
switch support supplier for assistance.

Requirements for IPv6 support

The following list provides requirements for Web Tools IPv6 support:

• In a pure IPv6 environment, you must configure your DNS maps to the IPv6 address of the

switch.

• The switch name is required to match the DNS name that is mapped to the IPv6 address.

• If both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are configured, Web Tools can be launched using any

configured IP address.

• Use a switch with v5.3.0 or later firmware to manage a mixed fabric of IPv4 and IPv6 switches.

• Switches running on version 5.2.0 do not discover IPv6 address-only switches in the same

fabric until the IPv4 address is configured.

Requirements for IPv6 support

1

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NOTE

Using the Web Tools Interface

In this chapter

•Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

•Displaying tool tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

•Right-click options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

•Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

•Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

•Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

•Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

•Collecting logs for troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Viewing Switch Explorer

2

The first thing you see when you log in to a switch with Web Tools is Switch Explorer, shown in

Figure 5 on page 19. Switch Explorer is divided into areas that provide access to, and information

about, the switch and fabric. The Switch Explorer areas are:

• The left pane, displaying the Tasks and Fabric Tree areas.

The Tasks area lets you perform management, monitoring, and other tasks. The Fabric Tree
displays a list of all the switches in the fabric.

• The menu bar, at the top of the window, providing access to commands and actions. The menu

bar displays the same commands as the left pane of Switch Explorer.

If you choose to collapse the left pane, you still have access to:

- Management tasks, such as zone administration, switch administration, port

administration, admin domain administration, and Fabric Watch administration.

You can manage basic zoning and Traffic Isolation zoning using Web Tools and Web Tools
with the Enhanced Group Management (EGM) license. To perform clone operations for
zoning, the EGM license must be installed on the switch; otherwise, access to this feature
is denied and an error message displays.
You must use Brocade Network Advisor to print the zone database summary configuration
and to analyze zone configurations. For more information on zoning management, refer to

“Zone configuration and zoning database management” on page 128.

- Reporting tasks, such as viewing the status of a switch.

- Monitoring tasks, such as performance monitoring, and viewing the temperature or power

status.

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To perform monitoring tasks such as performance monitoring the EGM license must be
installed on the switch; otherwise, access to this feature is denied and an error message
displays.

- Tools tasks, such as opening the Telnet window.

• The buttons above the Switch View provide access to switch information: status, temperature,

power, and fan data, beaconing, and the legend for the Switch View.

Although clicking a button can open a separate dialog box or window displays the management
tasks, all access control is established when you first log in to the switch.

Buttons in Switch Explorer are unavailable for two reasons: your account does not have
sufficient privileges to access this feature, or your currently selected Admin Domain does not
meet some condition to access the feature.

• The Admin Domain context field indicates the administrative domain you are viewing and

allows you to change it.

• The Switch View displays an interactive graphic of the switch.

• The Switch Events and Switch Information tabs allow you to view event information and switch

information, including connectivity, port, zone and other information.

• An indicator bar in the lower-right corner of every module window contains the Admin Domain

you are currently viewing, the current user name logged in to the switch, and the role
associated with that user account.

• The small right arrow near the Switch Event tab displays the switch. When you log out of Web

Tools, it remembers the last window settings the next time you log in to the application. If you
display the switch, the next time you log in to Web Tools, by default the Switch View displays.

The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the following:

• Brocade Encryption Switch

• Brocade 300, 5300, and 5100 switches

• Brocade VA-40FC

• Brocade 8000

• Brocade 7800

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1

2

6

5

3

8

4

7

For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.

2

1 Tasks and Fabric Tree
2Menu bar
3 Switch View buttons
4 Changing the Virtual Fabric ID, or

Changing the Admin Domain
5 Switch Events and Switch Information
6Indicator bar
7 Professional Management Tool

offering
8 Switch View

FIGURE 5 Switch Explorer

Persisting GUI preferences

Web Tools persists your GUI preferences across sessions for the Switch Explorer, Port Admin,
Switch Admin, Name Server, and Zone Admin dialog boxes on all web-browser platforms.
Persistence is performed on a per host basis.

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If you launch WebTools from Brocade Network Advisor (BNA), all of the Web Tools GUI persistence
data for each user name is stored in the BNA database.

The Port Admin GUI preferences that persist are:

• Basic or Advance mode

• Last selected tab by the user

• Table column sor ting

• Table column positions

• Auto refresh interval selection check box

• Auto refresh interval value

The Switch Admin GUI preferences that persist are:

• Basic or Advance modes

• Last selected tab

• Table column sor ting

• Table column positions

• Last selected tab

• Auto refresh interval selection check box

• Auto refresh interval value

The Switch Explorer GUI preferences that persists are:

• Last selected tab

The Name Server GUI preferences that persist are:

• Table column sor ting

• Table column positions

• Auto refresh interval selection check box

• Auto refresh interval value

The Zone Admin GUI preferences that persist are:

• Basic Zones

• Traf f ic Is olat ion Z ones

• Last selected tab

• Table column sor ting

• Table column positions

Tasks

The Tasks menu lets you manage, monitor, and perform other tasks.

The Management section of the Task s menu provides access to the following options:

• Zone administration

Zone information is collected from the selected switch. If an ACL-based FCS policy is in effect,
zoning can be administered only from the primary fabric configuration server (FCS) switch.
Refer to “Zoning management” on page 119 for more information.

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• Switch administration

• Port administration

• Admin Domain administration

• FCR (present only on the base switch when the Virtual Fabrics capability is enabled.)

• Fabric Watch

Some of these functions require a license key to activate them.

The Monitor section of the Tasks menu provides access to the following options:

• Performance monitoring—You must use Web Tools with the EGM license to perform

performance monitoring operations; otherwise, access to this feature is denied and an error
message displays.

• Name Server information—This feature is available with Web Tools and Web Tools with the EGM

license. Name Server information is collected from the selected switch. Refer to “Displaying the

Name Server entries” on page 51 for more information.

The Other section of the Tasks menu provides access to Telnet tools.

Fabric Tree

Fabric Tree displays all switches in the fabric, even those that do not have a Web Tools license and
that are not owned by your selected Admin Domain. Switches that are not owned by the Admin
Domain are shown in the Fabric Tree with switch status. Fabric Tree does not display switches
segmented before you opened Web Tools.

Only two types of switch icons display in Fabric Tree; one for a pizza box and one for a chassis. No
platform based icons are supported.

Use the drop-down menu at the top of the Fabric Tree area to view switches in the Fabric Tree by
switch name, IP address, or WWN. You can rest on the cursor over a switch to display the IP
address and current status. To manually refresh the status of a switch within the fabric, right-click
the switch in the Fabric Tree and select Refresh.

Although Fabric Tree displays all the switches in the fabric, you can manage switches that support
Fabric OS v6.1 and later versions because it does not requires Web Tools license. If a switch is
launched from Fabric Tree, preference will be given to IPV4, even though both IPV4 and IPV6 are
configured for that particular switch.

The versions earlier than Fabric OS v6.1 requires a Web Tools license and, if applicable, an EGM
license installed. Other switches must be managed through the Fabric OS command line interface
(CLI), another management application, or by using Brocade Network Advisor.

Changing the Admin Domain context

The Admin Domain field displays the currently selected Admin Domain and allows you to change to
a different one. The ability to change Admin Domain context requires that the EGM license is
enabled on the switch. Otherwise, an error message displays.

If you are logged in to Web Tools without the EGM license, you must log in again using a specific
Admin Domain.

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After you log in, all Admin Domains assigned to you are available in the drop-down menu. For most
administrative tasks, you must be in either AD0 or the physical fabric.

When changing the Admin Domain context, the option for selecting AD from the drop-down list is
not available if the EGM license is not present.

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NOTE

NOTE

NOTE

To change the Admin Domain context, perform the following steps.

1. Select a domain from the Admin Domain menu.

2. Click OK in the confirmation window.

Switch Explorer refreshes to display the new Admin Domain context. You can monitor the
progress using the progress bar.

The system displays a list of all open windows. You can choose to change the Admin Domain,
which closes all the open windows, or cancel the action and return to Switch Explorer.

The Telnet window and the Fabric Details are not AD-filtered and do not need to be closed.

Switch View buttons

The Switch View buttons let you access the following switch information:

• Status—Click the button to view the status of the switch.

• Temperatur e—Click the button to view temperature monitors.

• Power—Click the button to view power supply information.

• Fan—Click the button to view the status of the switch fans.

• Beaconing—Click this button to enable or disable beaconing and to view the status of

beaconing from the button’s icon.

• Legend—Click the button to view the legend for the Switch View.

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For all status displays based on errors per time interval, any errors cause the status to show
faulty until the entire sample interval has passed.

Switch View

You can click the small right arrow towards the left of the Switch Event tab to display the Switch
View. The Switch View displays a graphical representation of the switch, including a real-time view
of switch and port status. Refer to area 8 in Figure 5 on page 19.

NOTES: With the upgrade license installed:

• For 7800, all FC ports and 6 GbE ports are enabled

Without the upgrade license installed:

• For 7800, 4 FC ports and 2 GbE ports are enabled

Blades are graphically represented in the Web Tools GUI. They are vertical in the DCX, and horizontal
in the DCX-4S.

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The default Switch View display refresh rate is 60 seconds. However, the initial display of Switch
Explorer might take from 30 to 60 seconds after the switch is booted. Refresh rates are fabric-size
dependent. The auto refresh interval may not be less than 60 seconds. However, the refresh rate
varies depending on the activity in the fabric and on the host system you are using. The larger the
fabric, the longer it takes to poll the fabric and refresh the view. F_Port and L_Port connection
changes refresh immediately.

Port representations

The ports in the Switch View show the port type. Borders around the accessible ports indicate that
SFP modules are present. A colored border indicates the status of the port; for example, a green
border indicates that the port is connected and traffic is flowing. Ports that are not accessible do
not display the port type and do not have borders.

The port LEDs in the Switch View match the LEDs on the physical switch. However, the blink rate of
the LEDs in the Switch View does not necessarily match the blink rate of the LEDs on the physical
switch. Refer to “Port LED interpretation” on page 144 for more information.

Right-click a port in Switch View to get a menu that opens the Port Administration window, allowing
you to view detailed information about the port. From Port Administration, you can access
information on all other ports. Refer to Chapter 6, “Managing Ports” for more information.

For detailed information on ISL Trunking, F_Port Trunking, and long distance, you must install the
EGM license on the switch; otherwise access to these features is denied and an error message is
displayed.

If the selected Admin Domain does not include ownership of some ports that are physically present
on the switch, these ports are represented as black rectangles with horizontal gray bars indicating
they are not accessible.

E_Ports are visible in all domains. You cannot open the Port Administration window by clicking
these ports. For the Brocade DCX, the Port Admin view is launched for ICL ports.

USB port representation

For switches with USB ports, the USB Storage Management view is launched for USB ports
(Figure 6).

FIGURE 6 USB port storage management

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NOTE

NOTE

Click the USB port on the switch to launch the USB Storage Management window.

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Switch Events and Switch Information

Switch Events and Switch Information display as tab forms under Switch View. The information in
the Switch Information View is polled every 60 seconds.

You can click the column head to sort the events by a particular column, and drag the column divider
to resize a column. You can also right-click a column heading to resize one or all columns, sort the
information in ascending or descending order, or select which columns are displayed.

The Switch Information tab displays information about the following items:

• Switch

- Name Name of the switch.

- Status Status of the switch.

- Fabric OS Version Fabric OS version of the switch.

- Domain ID Domain ID of the switch.

- WWN World Wide Name of the switch.

- Typ e Typ e of the swi tch.

- Role Role of the switch.

The following information is specific to Virtual Fabrics:

- Base Switch Indicates whether or not the logical switch can act as a base

- Default Switch Indicates whether or not the logical switch is the default

- Allow XISL Use Indicates whether or not the logical switch is allowed to

• Ethernet

- Ethernet IPv4 Ethernet IPv4 address of the switch.

- Ethernet IPv4 subnet

- Ethernet IPv4 gateway Ethernet IPv4 gateway address of the switch.

- Ethernet IPv6 Ethernet IPv6 address of the switch.

• FC

- IPFC IPv4 Fiber Channel IPv4 address.

- IPFC IPv4 subnet mask Fiber Channel IPv4 subnet mask address.

• Zone

- Effective Configuration Indicates whether zone configuration is enabled or not.

switch.

logical switch.

connect to other logical switches using an extended
inter-switch link (XISL).

Ethernet IPv4 subnet mask address of the switch.

mask

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• Other

- Manufacturer serial number Displays the serial number of the manufacturer.

- Supplier serial number Displays the serial number of the supplier.

- License ID Displays the license ID.

• RNID

- Typ e Type of the swi tch .

- Model Model of the switch.

- Tag Tag o f the switch.

- Sequence number Sequence number of the switch.

- Insistent Domain ID

Mode

Current status of the Insistent Domain ID mode of the switch.

- Manufacturer Manufacturer of the switch.

- Manufacturer Plant Plant where the switch was manufactured.

For more information, refer to “Displaying switch information” on page 139.

Free Professional Management tool

You can use the Professional Management tool with Web Tools to view connectivity for each fabric,
to back up and restore last-known configurations, and more. You can also use it with the Enhanced
Group Management license to manage groups of switches, download firmware, manage security
settings, and deploy configurations across groups of switches. Contact your preferred storage
supplier to get a complimentary copy of the Professional Management tool.

Launch the install wizard for the free Professional Management tool through the link located at the
bottom of the Switch Explorer.

Displaying tool tips

When you rest the cursor over a Web Tools button, the system displays a brief description of the
button. If you rest the cursor over most components, the system displays tool tip information about
the component.

In the Fabric Tree you can rest the cursor over a switch to view its type, Ethernet IP, IPFC, and status
of the switch.

In Switch View, you can rest the cursor over a blade to view the blade ID and its status. It is easier
to use the top of the blade to display the tool tip so that you do not inadvertently display the port
tool tips. Firmware versions and IP addressing are displayed for CP blades.

When you rest the cursor over a port, you can view the:

• port name

• port ID

• port beacon

• port number

• port index

• port type (E, F, L, D, Ex, GIGe, or U_Port)

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• port status (online or offline)

• port state (in-sync, no_sync, no light, or no module)

Right-click options

You can right-click a port to quickly perform some basic port administration tasks, as shown in

Figure 7.

FIGURE 7 Right-click menu for ports (from Switch Explorer)

The tasks are:

Right-click options

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Refresh rates

• The Port Admin option displays the Port Administration window.

• The Port Details option displays read-only information about a port, without opening the Port

Administration window. You can right-click on the table content to export or copy the
information from the Port Details window.

• The Configure option provides another menu of options to allow you to rename, enable, and

disable ports, and to set persistent enable or disable without opening the Port Administration
window.

Different panels of Web Tools refresh at different rates.

The refresh, or polling, rates listed in this section and throughout the book indicate the time
between the end of one polling period and the start of the next, and not how often the screen is
refreshed. A refresh rate of 15 seconds does not ensure that a refresh occurs every 15 seconds. It
ensures that the time between each refresh activity is no more than 15 seconds.

Autorefresh intervals might be not be exactly 15 seconds. The refresh rate varies depending on the
activity in the fabric and on the host system you are using. Following are some variables you should
consider when refreshing the fabric:

• Retrieval time increases when you are in a large fabric because there is more data to retrieve

from the switches.

• Processor speed of the system you are using may slow down the refresh rate.

• OS-Job Scheduling if you are using a host-system in the data center impacts the refresh rate.

• JVM-Performance can contribute to causing interval differences between what is on-screen

and how long it is actually taking.

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For these reasons, the time displayed in the port statistics tab might not be refreshed as expected.
The counter time indicates only that “this statistics data is retrieved from the switch in this time
period.” To ensure the correct information, the time field is updated along with the port statistics
data after every refresh.

The refresh rates are different for each module. Table 6 lists polling rates by module. Though these
rates are sample rates, they correctly illustrate variance in the refresh rates throughout Web Tools.

TABLE 6 Polling rates

Module Polling rate

Name Server User-defined; 15 sec minimum

Zoning Database 60 sec

Fabric Watch 45 sec

Performance Monitor
(This feature requires the EGM license.)

Port Management 60 sec

FC Routing 45–90 sec, depending on network traffic

30 sec

Displaying switches in the fabric

If your fabric has more than one switch, you can open Web Tools from one switch and then access
other switches. You can also launch Web Tools from the Brocade Network Advisor client as Element
Manager. This lets you manage Web Tool requests in the case where the fabric is in a private
network.

Launch Web Tools from Brocade Network Advisor if you need to access the fabric from a host that
is not in the same network and does not have direct access to the fabric.

If you open switches, running Fabric OS v4.4.x or later, from a Fabric Tree displayed for a version
earlier than a v4.4.x switch. Some of the features might be disabled.

To display switches in the fabric, perform the following steps.

1. Open Web Tools as described in “Opening Web Tools” on page 10 and log in to the switch.

2. If the Fabric Tree is not expanded, click the plus sign (+) in the Fabric Tree to view all the
switches in the fabric.

3. Click a switch in the Fabric Tree.

A separate browser dialog box displays the selected switch. (If the launch switch is running a
Fabric OS version earlier than v5.0.1, the selected switch displays in the same browser
window.)

The graphic of the selected switch displays in Switch View. Additional switch information
displays in the Switch Events and Switch Information dialog box.

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Working with Web Tools: recommendations

NOTE

Working with Web Tools: recommendations

Brocades makes the following recommendations for working with Web Tools:

• If you receive an error when saving changes in the Switch Administration window, note the

error messages, refresh the window, and make your changes again. Do not continue making
changes without refreshing the window and determining which changes were saved correctly.

• In a fabric containing switches and directors running different versions of firmware, use the

switches or directors with the latest firmware versions to control the fabric.

• If switches are accessed simultaneously from different connections (for example, Web Tools,

CLI, and API), changes from one connection might not be updated to the other, and some
modifications might be lost. Make sure that, when you connect with simultaneous multiple
connections, you do not overwrite the work of another connection.

• Several tasks in Web Tools make fabric-level changes, such as the tasks in Zone

Administration. When executing fabric-level configuration tasks, wait until you have received
confirmation that the changes are implemented before executing any subsequent tasks. For a
large fabric, this can take several minutes.

• Some data collection and processing operations in the iSCSI Gateway module might take a

long time to complete, especially in large fabrics or fabrics with large numbers of defined
Discovery Domains and Discovery Domain Sets. In most cases, progress bars are provided.
Allow the application a sufficient amount of time (30-40 seconds) to collect and display data
before taking any action or assuming the application is “hanging.”

• A maximum of five simultaneous HTTP sessions to any one switch is recommended. An HTTP

session is considered a Fabric Manager or Web Tools connection to the switch.

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Opening a Telnet or SSH client window

When you open a Telnet or SSH client window, it connects to the IP interface of the switch. You
cannot connect to a CP blade on a director switch through a Telnet or SSH client window opened
from Web Tools, even when the blade has an IP address and supports Telnet sessions. Refer to the
Fabric OS Command Reference for information about the Telnet commands.

Internet Explorer 7.0 default settings disable Telnet functionality. If you are using Internet Explorer

7.0, you must make the appropriate changes in the registry to open the Telnet window.

To open a Telnet or SSH client window, perform the following steps.

1. Select a switch in Fabric Tree.

You are prompted to log in if the OS is version 5.3.0 or later; otherwise, the selected switch
displays in Switch View.

2. Select Telnet/SSH Client in the Other section of the Tasks panel. The Preference dialog box
displays.

3. Select the client by clicking Tel net or SSH.

4. Enter the Telnet or SSH path, as defined for your implementation.

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To avoid the need to remember and key in the path, you can store the path on your PC and
browse to the location. Clicking the button to the right of the field initiates the browse
capability.

5. Click OK.

The Telnet or SSH window displays.

6. Enter your user credentials at the login prompt.

7. To close the session, enter exit at the prompt and press the Enter key.

Collecting logs for troubleshooting

If you encounter problems using the Web Tools interface, collect Java logs for use in
troubleshooting. From Microsoft Windows, perform this procedure.

1. Open Control Panel and select Java.

2. Click on the Advanced tab.

3. Expand Java console.

4. Select Show console.

5. Restart Web Tools.

The Java console displays, along with the Web Tools opening page.

6. Perform the Web Tools operation that caused the problem.

7. Collect the logs shown on the Java console.

8. If you no longer want to see the Java console when you start Web Tools, go back to the Control
Panel, repeat steps 1 and 2, and then deselect Show console.

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Chapter

Managing Fabrics and Switches

In this chapter

•Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

•Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

•Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

•Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

•Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

•Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

•Switch restart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

•System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

•Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

•High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

•Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

•Displaying the Name Server entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

•Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

•Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

•Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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Fabric and switch management overview

Most of the management tasks described in this chapter are accessed through the Switch
Administration window. Information in the Switch Administration window is retrieved from the
selected switch, as shown in Figure 8 on page 32.

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ATTENTION

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If the switch is not a member of the selected Admin Domain, most tabs in the Switch
Administration window display in read-only mode, regardless of your permission level. The User tab
is editable because most of its information does not require switch membership in the current
Admin Domain.

FIGURE 8 Switch Administration window, Switch tab

With the exception of switch time, information displayed in the Switch Administration window is not
updated automatically by Web Tools. To update the information displayed in the Switch
Administration window, click the Refresh button.

Most changes you make in the Switch Administration window are buffered, and are not applied to
the switch until you save the changes. If you close the Switch Administration window without saving
your changes, your changes are lost. To save the buffered changes you make in the Switch
Administration window to the switch, click Apply before closing the module or before switching to
another tab.

The License tab, Firmware Download tab, and the Security Policies tab are exceptions. The changes
you make on these tabs take effect immediately and there is no Apply button. There is an Apply
button in all the subtabs of security policies except ACL.

You can also use Telnet commands to perform management tasks. Refer to “Opening a Telnet or

SSH client window” on page 29 for information on how to launch a Telnet window using Web Tools.

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NOTE

Opening the Switch Administration window

Most of the management procedures in this chapter are performed from the Switch Administration
window.

To open the Switch Administration window, perform the following steps.

1. Select Ta sks > Manage > Switch Admin.

The Switch Administration dialog box displays in basic mode, as shown in Figure 8 on page 32.
The basic mode displays the “basic” tabs and options.

2. Click Show Advanced Mode to see all the available tabs and options.

Configuring IP and subnet mask information

Before proceeding, collect all the information you need to configure the Ethernet IP interface. This
includes the subnet mask, gateway IP address, or IPFC, and subnet mask for your system. When
you configure or change the Ethernet IP, subnet mask, gateway IP, or IPFC, and subnet mask from
Web Tools, there is a normal loss of network connection to the switch. Close all current windows
and restart Web Tools with the new IP address.

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The IPFC address is specific for each logical switch. The IPFC address is set to FC0 for switches that
do not support Virtual Fabrics.

To configure the IP and subnet mask information, perform the following steps.

1. Select the Network tab.

2. In the appropriate IP address section, enter the IP address you want to use for the IP interface.

Use the IPv4 Address section or the IPv6 Address section to specify IP addresses.

3. In the IPv4 Address section:

• In the Ethernet IP field, enter the Ethernet IP address.

• In the Ethernet Mask field, enter the Ethernet mask address.

• In the GateWay IP address field, enter the gateway IP address.

4. In the IPv6 Address section, in the Ethernet IPv6 field, enter the Ethernet IP address.

5. You can also enable automatic configuration of IPv6 addresses by selecting Enable IPV6 Auto
Configuration.

The automatically generated IPv6 addresses are displayed under Auto Configured IPV6
Addresses. Eight auto-configured addresses are created per switch, and up to 24 for a DCX, or
DCX-4S chassis (eight per chassis, and eight per each installed CP).

Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh

The Netstat Performance window displays the details about Ethernet management port statistics
like the Interface, MTU, Met, RX-OK, RX-ERR, RX-DRP, RX-OVR, TX-OK, TX-ERR, TX-DRP, TX-OVR, and
Flag.

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To configure Auto Refresh, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Network tab.

3. Click Netstat Performance.

4. Select the Auto Refresh check box to automatically refresh the port details.

Clear the check box to disable auto refresh.

5. When enabled, enter the interval time in seconds in the Auto-Refresh Interval field.

The port details are automatically refreshed, based on the configured time interval. The
minimum value is 15 seconds.

Configuring a syslog IP address

The syslog IP represents the IP address of the server that is running the syslog process. The syslog
daemon reads and forwards system messages to the appropriate log files or users, depending on
the system configuration. When one or more IP addresses are configured, the switch forwards all
error log entries to the syslog on the specified servers. Up to six servers are supported. Refer to
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for more information on configuring the syslog daemon.

To configure a syslog IP address, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Network tab.

3. In the Syslog IP’s Configuration section, in the New IP field, enter an IP address in either IPv4
or IPv6 format.

4. Click Add.

The new IP address displays in the Syslog IP area.

5. Click Apply.

Removing a syslog IP address

To remove a syslog IP address, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Network tab.

3. Select a syslog IP in the table and click Remove.

You can click Clear All to remove all of the syslog IP addresses from the table.

4. Click Apply.

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Configuring IP Filtering

Web Tools provides the ability to control what client IP addresses may connect to a switch or fabric.

To set up IP Filtering, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Security Policies tab.

3. Select IPFilter on the Security Policies menu.

4. Click Create Policy.

The Create IP Filter Policy dialog box displays.

5. Enter a policy name, select a policy type, and then click the Add Rule button.

6. Enter the rule order, rule type, source and destination IP addresses, and then modify the
service or destination port, protocol, and action as necessary.

Both the source and destination IP addresses are needed for the FWD rule type.

Only the source IP address is needed for the INPUT rule type, as the destination IP address
field is disabled.

Configuring IP Filtering

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7. C l ic k OK.

After you create a policy, you can use the following controls on this tab to manage the policies:

• The Edit Policy button lets you select an existing policy and make changes to it.

• The Show Policy button lets you view the details of the policy in a read-only window.

• The Delete Policy button lets you delete a policy.

• The Clone Policy button lets you copy a policy. Use this feature when you want to create

similar policies. After you create a clone, you can edit the policy to make the appropriate
changes.

• The Activate Policy button lets you make an existing policy active.

• The Distribute Policy button lets you distribute a policy to various switches.

• The Accepts Distribution check box lets you set the policy to accept or reject distributions.

Blade management

Web Tools provides the ability to enable and disable blades, and to set slot-level IP addresses for
blades. The procedure in this section applies only to the Brocade DCX 8510-4, Brocade DCX
8510-8,or the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms.

Enabling or disabling a blade

The Firmware Version columns display the firmware loaded onto each blade. A blade can have
more than one firmware image loaded onto it. The Blade State column in the Blade tab pane
indicates whether the blade is enabled.

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NOTE

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The blade state is always shown as enabled, even if you perform a blade disable operation. When a
blade is set to a disable state, only the ports on the balde are disabled. The blade remains active.

To enable or disable a blade, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Blade tab (Figure 9).

FIGURE 9 Blade tab

3. Select Blade Action > Enable Blade for each blade you want to enable, or Blade Action >
Disable Blade to disable a blade, and click Yes in the confirmation dialog.

Disabling a blade does not turn off the blade, it disables the ports on the blade. You cannot
enable or disable the CP blades.

Setting a slot-level IP address

To set an IP address, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Blade tab.

3. Click Set IP address.

4. Select a slot number from the list.

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5. Enter the IP address, subnet mask, and Gateway IP address.

6. Select a type from the list.

7. C l ic k Add to add the new entry to the table.

When you click Add, the values remain in the fields. The Clear Gateway and Clear IP buttons
are available for clearing fields in the table.

To remove a configuration, select a row in the table and click Delete.

8. Click Apply to save the values currently shown in the table or click Cancel to close the dialog
box without saving any of your changes.

9. To update the switch with your changes, update the table using the Add and Delete buttons,
and then click Apply.

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Viewing IP addresses

If you want to view the IP addresses configured on the switch for the currently populated slots, use
the Show IP Address button.

Use this procedure to display the IP addresses.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Blade tab.

3. Click Show IP Address.

4. Scroll through the list to view all the information.

5. When you are finished, click Close.

Switch configuration

Use the Switch tab of the Switch Administration window to perform basic switch configuration.

Figure 8 on page 32 displays an example of the Switch tab.

Enabling and disabling a switch

You can identify whether a switch is enabled or disabled in the Switch Administration window by
looking at the lower-right corner. If you rest the cursor over the icon, the system displays text that
indicates the status of the switch.

Use this procedure to enable or disable a switch.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Switch tab.

3. In the Switch Status section, click Enable to enable the switch or Disable to disable the switch.

4. Click Apply.

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The system displays a confirmation window that asks if you want to save the changes to the
switch. You must click Yes to save the changes.

Changing the switch name

Switches can be identified by IP address, domain ID, World Wide Name (WWN), or switch names.
Names must begin with an alphabetic character, but otherwise can consist of alphanumeric,
hyphen, and underscore characters. The maximum number of characters is 30, unless FICON
mode is enabled. When FICON mode is enabled, the maximum number of characters is 24.

Some system messages identify a switch service by the chassis name. If you assign meaningful
chassis names and switch names, system logs are easier to use.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Switch tab.

3. Enter a new name in the Name field and click Apply.

Changing the switch domain ID

Although domain IDs are assigned dynamically when a switch is enabled, you can request a
specific ID to resolve a domain ID conflict when you merge fabrics.

To change the switch domain ID, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Disable the switch, as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

3. Select the Switch tab.

4. Enter a new domain ID in the Domain ID field.

For IM0, the range of valid values is from 1 athrough 239.

5. Click Apply.

6. Enable the switch, as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

Viewing and printing a switch report

The switch report includes the following information:

• A list of switches in the fabric

• Switch configuration parameters

• A list of ISLs and ports

• Name Server information

• Zoning information

• SFP serial ID information

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To view or print a report, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

2. Select the Switch tab.

3. Click View Report.

4. In the new window that displays the report, view or print the report using your browser.

Switch restart

When you restart the switch, the restart takes effect immediately. Ensure that there is no traffic or
other management on the switch, because traffic is interrupted during the restart; however, frames
are not dropped. Be sure to save your changes before the restart, because any changes not saved
are lost.

Performing a fast boot

A fast boot reduces boot time significantly by bypassing the power-on self test (POST).

window” on page 33.

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To perform a fast boot, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Click Fastboot.

3. On the Fastboot Confirmation window, click Yes to continue.

4. Click Apply.

Performing a reboot

To reboot the CP and execute the normal power-on booting sequence, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Click Reboot.

3. On the Reboot Confirmation window, click Yes to continue.

4. Click Apply.

System configuration parameters

You must disable the switch before you can configure fabric parameters.

You can change the following system configuration parameters:

• Switch fabric settings

• Virtual channel settings

• Arbitrated loop parameters

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• System services

• Signed firmware

WWN-based Persistent PID assignment

WWN-based PID assignment allows you to configure a PID persistently using a device’s WWN.
When the device logs into the switch, the PID is bound to the device WWN. If the device is moved to
another port in the same switch, or a new blade is hot plugged, the device receives the same PID
(area) at its next login. For information on configuring WWN-based PID assignment, refer to

“Configuring fabric settings” on page 41.

This feature is deactivated by default. When the feature is enabled, bindings are created
dynamically; as new devices log in, they automatically enter the WWN-based PID database. The
bindings exist until you explicitly unbind the mappings through the CLI or change to a different
addressing mode. If there are any existing devices when you enable the feature, you must manually
enter the WWN-based PID assignments through the CLI.

Once WWN-based PID assignment is enabled you must manually enter the WWN-based PID
assignments through the CLI for any existing devices. Any new devices logging in are automatically
entered in the WWN-based PID database. Current WWN-based PID bindings are cleared when you
change to a different addressing mode.

PID assignments are supported for a maximum of 4096 devices; this includes both point-to-point
and NPIV devices. The number of point-to-point devices supported depends directly on the areas
available. For example, 448 are available on an enterprise-class platform and 256 are available on
switches. When the number of entries in the WWN-based PID database reaches the number 4096
or areas are used up, the oldest unused entry is purged from the database to free up the reserved
area for the new FLOGI. Refer to Table 7 for complete information.

TABLE 7 Switches that support WWN-based Persistent PID on Web Tools

Platform VF Default switch Logical switch Area mode FICON mode

0 If 8-bit dynamic

mode is
enabled, FMS is
not supported

1 Can be set

2 Not supported

Configurable

dynamic

Configurable

dynamic

DCX/DCX-4S
DCX 8510-4
DCX 8510-8

Brocade 5100
Brocade 5300
Brocade VA-40FC
Brocade 6510

Brocade 300
Brocade 5100
Brocade 5300
Brocade VA-40FC
Brocade 6510
Brocade 7800

Yes , i f d yn amic
area addressing

Enabled

Enabled Yes Yes Default-8 bit

Disabled N/A N/A Default-8bit

is enabled in the
default switch.

Yes

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Configuring fabric settings

To configure the fabric settings, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Configure tab.

3. Select the Fabric subtab.

4. Make the fabric parameter configuration changes.

5. Click Apply.

6. Enable the switch as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

Fabric settings

Configure the following fabric settings on the Fabric subtab of the Configure tab:

BB Credit The buffer-to-buffer credit is the number of buffers available to attached devices for frame

receipt. The default BB Credit is 16. The range of valid values is from 1 through 27.

R_A_TOV Resource allocation timeout value (in milliseconds). This variable works with the E_D_TOV

to determine switch actions when presented with an error condition. The default is 10000.
The possible range is (2*E_D_TOV) –120000. Values must be multiples of 1000.

E_D_TOV Error detect timeout value (in milliseconds). This timer is used to flag a potential error

condition when an expected response is not received within the set time. The valid range
is 1000 - (R_A_TOV/2)

Addressing mode Displays the addressing mode present in the switch.

Datafield size The largest possible data field size (in bytes). The range of valid values is from 256

through 2112.

Sequence Level
Switching

Disable Device Probing Set this mode only if the switch N_Port discovery process (PLOGI, PRLI, INQUIRY) causes

Per-Frame Routing
Priority

Suppress Class F Traffic Applies only if VC-encoded address mode is also set. When selected, translative

Insistent Domain ID
Mode

WWN-based Persistent
PID

Select this box to enable frames of the same sequence from a particular group to be
transmitted together. When this option is not selected, frames are transmitted interleaved
among multiple sequences. Under normal circumstances, sequence-level switching
should be disabled for better performance. However, some host adapters have issues
when receiving interleaved frames among multiple sequences.

an attached device to fail. When set, devices that do not register with the Name Server are
not present in the Name Server database.

Select whether to select per-frame routing priority. When enabled, the virtual channel ID is
used in conjunction with a frame header to form the final virtual channel ID.

addressing (which allows private devices to communicate with public devices) is disabled.

Set this mode to make the current domain ID insistent across reboots, power cycles, and
failovers. This mode is required fabric wide to transmit FICON

Set this mode to configure a PID persistently using a device’s WWN. When the device logs
into the switch, the PID is bound to the device WWN. Refer to “WWN-based Persistent PID

assignment” on page 40.

data.

Enabling insistent domain ID mode

To enable insistent domain ID mode, perform the following steps.

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1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Disable the switch as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

3. Select the Configure tab.

4. Select the Fabric subtab.

5. Select the Insistent Domain ID Mode check box.

6. Click Apply.

7. En a b l e t h e sw i t c h as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

Configuring virtual channel settings

You can configure parameters for eight virtual channels (VC) to enable fine-tuning for a specific
application. You cannot modify the first two virtual channels because these are reserved for switch
internal functions.

The default virtual channel settings are already optimized for switch performance. Changing the
default values can improve switch performance, but can also degrade performance. Do not change
these settings without fully understanding the effects of the changes.

VC Priority specifies the class of frame traffic given priority for a virtual channel.

To configure the virtual channel settings, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Disable the switch as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

3. Select the Configure tab.

4. Select the Virtual Channel subtab.

5. Enter a value in the VC Priority field you want to change.

The only valid numeric values for all fields are either “2” or “3”.

6. Click Apply.

7. En a b l e t h e sw i t c h as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

Configuring arbitrated loop parameters

To configure arbitrated loop parameters, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Disable the switch as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

3. Select the Configure tab.

4. Select the Arbitrated Loop subtab.

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5. Select or clear the check boxes to enable or disable the corresponding arbitrated loop
parameters.

6. Click Apply.

7. En a b l e t h e sw i t c h as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

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Arbitrated loop parameters

Configure the following arbitrated loop parameters on the Arbitrated Loop subtab of the Configure
tab:

Send Fan Frames Select this check box to specify that fabric address notification (FAN)

frames are sent to public loop devices to notify them of their node ID
and address.

Always Send RSCN Following the completion of loop initialization, a remote state change

notification (RSCN) is issued when FL_Ports detect the presence of
new devices or the absence of pre-existing devices. Select this check
box to issue an RSCN upon completion of loop initialization, regardless
of the presence or absence of new or pre-existing devices.

Configuring system services

You can enable or disable FCP read link status (RLS) probing for F_Ports and FL_Ports. It is
disabled by default.

To configure system services, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Disable the switch as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

3. Select the Configure tab.

4. Select the System subtab.

5. Select the Disable RLS Probing check box to disable RLS probing.

-or-

Clear the check box to enable RLS probing.

6. Click Apply.

7. En a b l e t h e sw i t c h as described in “Enabling and disabling a switch” on page 37.

Configuring signed firmware

When the firmware is downloaded to a device, the system can validate the firmware based on a
configuration setting. By default, the signed firmware download is not validated.

During the first download, the system ignores the signed firmware. After the first download, the
public key is downloaded and then, in subsequent downloads, you can turn on the feature.
You can view the public key on the Firmware Download tab in the Switch Administration window.

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To configure the signed firmware, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Configure tab.

3. Select the Firmware subtab.

4. Select the Enable Signed Firmware Download check box.

5. Click Apply.

Licensed feature management

The licensed features currently installed on the switch are listed in the License tab of the Switch
Administration window. If the feature is listed, such as the EGM license, it is installed and
immediately available. When you enable some licenses, such as ISL Trunking, you might need to
change the state of the port to enable the feature on the link. For time-based licenses, the expiry
date is included. Right-click a license key to export data, copy data, or search the table.

Activating a license on a switch

Before you can unlock a licensed feature, you must obtain a license key. You can either use the
license key provided in the paperpack document supplied with switch software or refer to the
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for instructions on how to obtain a license key at the Brocade
website (my.brocade.com).

To activate a license, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the License tab and click Add.

The Add License dialog box displays.

3. Paste or enter a license key in the field.

4. Click Add License.

5. Click Refresh to display the new licenses in the License tab.

Some licenses, such as the Trunking or Brocade 7800 upgrade license, do not take effect until
the switch is restarted.

Assigning slots for a license key

This feature allows to increase the capacity without disrupting the slots that already have licensed
features running.

You can enable slot based licenses only on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (FTR_10G), Advanced Extension
(FTR_AE), and Advanced FICON Acceleration (FTR_AFA) features.

To assign slots for a license key, perform the following steps.

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1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the License tab.

3. Select the license key for which you want to assign slots from the License Administration table.

The Assign Slots window displays.

4. Select the slots you want to assign.

5. Click OK.

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Removing a license from a switch

To remove a license from a switch in the Switch Administration window, perform the following
steps.

Use care when removing licenses. If you remove a license for a feature, that feature no longer works.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the License tab.

3. Click the license you want to remove.

4. Click Remove.

Universal time-based licensing

After v6.3.0, Web Tools supports universal time-based licensing. Each universal key is for a single
feature, and can be used on any product that supports the feature, for a defined trial period. At the
end of the trial period, the feature gets disabled. You can extend the universal key license. For
time-based licenses, the Expiry Date displays in the License Administration table.

The following features are supported for universal time-based license:

• Fabric

• Extended Fabric

• Fabric Watch

• Performance Monitor

• Trun king

• High-Performance Extension over FCIP/FC

• Advanced Extension

• Advanced FICON Acceleration

• FICON Management Server (CUP)

• Enhanced Group Management (EGM)

• 10GbE

• Integrated Routing

• Adaptive Networking

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• Server Application Optimization

High Availability overview

High-Availability (HA) features provide maximum reliability and nondisruptive replacement of key
hardware and software modules. High Availability is available only on the Brocade DCX, DCX-4S,
DCX 8510-4 and DCX 8510-8 platforms. Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for additional
information about High Availability.

The High Availability window, as shown in Figure 10, displays information about the status of the HA
feature on each control processor (CP), and enables you to perform CP failover.

The background color of the HA button indicates the overall status of high availability on the switch.
The colors and their meanings are:

• Green—Healthy: HA Status is HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized.

• Yellow—Disruptive mode: HA Status is HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync.

• Red—HA is unavailable: HA Status is Non-Redundant.

Admin Domain considerations

HA is possible if the switch is a member of the current Admin Domain. If switch is not a member of
current Admin Domain, the Synchronize Services and Initiate Failover buttons are unavailable.

Launching the High Availability window

To launch the High Availability window, perform the following steps.

1. Select a Brocade DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4 or DCX 8510-8 platforms from the Fabric Tree.

The Switch View displays.

2. Click the HA button in the Switch View.

The High Availability dialog box displays.

The High Availability window contains the following two tabs:

• The Service tab displays information about the switch. When the hardware is configured as a

dual switch, the Service tab displays information about both switches.

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• The CP tab displays information about slots. For Brocade DCX-4S or DCX 8510-4, CP blades are

placed in slot 4 and slot 5.,For the Brocade DCX or DCX 8510-8, CP blades are placed in slot 6
and 7.

FIGURE 10 High Availability window, CP tab

The High Availability window gets refreshed automatically. You can also click Refresh to update the
information displayed in the High Availability window.

Admin Domain considerations

To open the High Availability window, the switch must be a member of your current Admin Domain.
If the switch is not a member of the current Admin Domain, the Synchronized Services and Initiate
Failover buttons are unavailable.

Synchronizing services on the CP

A nondisruptive CP failover is only possible when all the services are synchronized between both
CPs.

To synchronize services on the CP, perform the following steps.

1. Open the High Availability window as described in “Launching the High Availability window” on
page 46.

2. Verify that the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized.

If the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized you are
finished.

If the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync, continue with
step 3.

3. Click Synchronize Services.

The Warning dialog box displays.

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4. Click Yes and wait for the CPs to complete a synchronization of services, so that a
nondisruptive failover is ready.

5. Click Refresh to update the HA Status field.

When the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized a failover
can be initiated without disrupting frame traffic on the fabric.

Initiating a CP failover

A nondisruptive failover might take about 30 seconds to complete. During the failover, all of the
Web Tools windows and all associated child-windows are invalidated. You must close all Web Tools
windows and open Web Tools again.

To initiate a nondisruptive failover, perform the following steps.

1. Open the High Availability window as described in “Launching the High Availability window” on
page 46.

2. Verify that the HA Status field displays HA enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State synchronized or HA
enabled, Heartbeat Up, HA State not in sync.

3. Click Initiate Failover.

The Warning dialog box displays.

4. Click Yes to initiate a nondisruptive failover.

5. When prompted, close the Web Tools Switch Explorer window and all associated windows, and
re-open Web Tools.

Event monitoring

Web Tools displays fabric-wide and switch-wide events. Event information includes sortable fields
for the following:

• Switch name

• Message number

• Time stamp

• Indication of whether the event is from a logical switch or a chassis

• The number of successive events of the same kind

• Severity level

• Unique message identifier (in the form moduleID-messageType)

• Detailed error message for root cause analysis

There are eight message severity levels:

• Emergency

• Alert

• Critical

• Error

• Warning

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• Marginal

• Notice

• Information

• Debug

Tab le 8 lists the event message severity levels displayed on the Switch Events tab and explains

what qualifies event messages to be certain levels.

On the Switch Events tab, you can click the Filter button to launch the Filter Events dialog box. The
Filter Events dialog box allows you to define which events should be displayed on the Switch Events
tab. For more information on filtering events, refer to “Filtering Switch Events” on page 50.

TABLE 8 Event severity levels

Icon and level Description

Emergency-level messages indicate a partial or complete failure of a

Emergency

Critical

subsystem.

Critical-level messages indicate that the software has detected serious
problems that will eventually cause a partial or complete failure of a subsystem
if not corrected immediately. For example, a power supply failure or rise in
temperature must receive immediate attention.

This event does not compromise data or prevent the use of the system;

Alert

Error

Warning

Notice

Info

Debug

however, the event warrants your attention.

Error-level messages represent an error condition that does not impact overall
system functionality significantly. For example, error-level messages might
indicate timeouts on certain operations, failures of certain operations after
retries, invalid parameters, or failure to perform a requested operation.

Warning-level messages highlight a current operating condition that should be
checked or it might lead to a failure in the future. For example, a power supply
failure in a redundant system relays a warning that the system is no longer
operating in redundant mode. The failed power supply must be replaced or
fixed.

Notices report important events, such as task completions or events.

Information-level messages report the current nonerror status of the system
components, such as the online and offline status of a fabric port.

Debug messages deliver status messages relating to debugging systems.

Displaying Switch Events

The Switch Events tab displays a running log of events for the selected switch. Switch events are
polled and updated every 15 seconds; there is no refresh-on-demand option for switch events.

For two-switch configurations, all chassis-related events are displayed in the event list of each
logical switch for convenience.

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To display Switch Events, perform the following steps.

1. Select the switch from the Fabric Tree.

The Switch View displays.

2. Select the Switch Events tab, if necessary.

Filtering Switch Events

You can filter the fabric and switch events by time, severity, message ID, and service. You can apply
either one type of filter at a time or multiple types of filters at the same time. When a filter is
applied, the filter information displays at the bottom of the filtered information and the Show All link
is available to allow you to view the information unfiltered.

To filter Switch Events, perform the following the procedure.

1. Open the Switch Events tab as described in “Displaying Switch Events” on page 49.

2. Click Filter.

The Event Filter dialog box displays.

3. To filter events within a certain time period:

• Select the From check box and enter the start time and date in the fields.

• Select the To check box and enter the finish time and date in the fields.

• To filter events beginning at a certain date and time, select only the From check box and

enter the start time and date.

• To filter events up until a certain date and time, select only the To check box and enter the

finish time and date.

4. Click OK.

The filter is enabled and the window is refreshed to show the filtered information.

Filtering events by event severity levels

To filter events by event severity levels, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Events tab as described in “Displaying Switch Events” on page 49.

2. Click Filter.

The Event Filter dialog box displays.

3. Select Level.

4. Select the event levels you want to display.

5. Click OK.

The filter is enabled and the window is refreshed to show the filtered information.

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Filtering events by message ID

To filter events by message ID, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Events tab as described in “Displaying Switch Events” on page 49.

2. Click Filter.

The Event Filter dialog box displays.

3. Select Message ID.

4. Enter the message IDs in the associated field.

You can enter multiple message IDs as long as you separate them by commas. You can enter
either the full message ID (moduleID-messageType) or a partial ID (moduleID only). The
message ID filtering is case-sensitive.

5. Click OK.

The filter is enabled and the window is refreshed to show the filtered information.

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Filtering events by service component

To filter events by service component, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Events tab as described in “Displaying Switch Events” on page 49.

2. Click Filter.

The Event Filter dialog box displays.

3. Select Service. The event service menu is enabled.

4. Select either Switch or Chassis from the menu to show only those messages from the logical
switch or from the chassis.

5. Click OK.

The filter is enabled and the window is refreshed to show the filtered information.

Displaying the Name Server entries

Web Tools displays Name Server entries listed in the Simple Name Server database. This includes
all Name Server entries for the fabric, not only those related to the local domain. Each row in the
table represents a different device. You can click the column head to sor t the events by a particular
column, and drag the column divider to resize a column. You can also right-click a column heading
to resize one or all columns, sort the information in ascending or descending order, or select which
columns are displayed.

Admin Domain considerations: The Name Server table is filtered based on Admin Domain
membership of the fabric devices. The Name Server table lists only devices that are part of your
current Admin Domain. This includes devices that are direct members of the Admin Domain and
devices that are attached to ports that are direct members of the Admin Domain. All other fabric
devices are filtered out of the Name Server view for the current Admin Domain. Refer to “Admi n

Domain membership” on page 65 for information about direct and indirect members.

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For FICON devices: The Name Server table lists the request node identification (RNID) information.

To display the Name Servers, perform the following steps.

1. Select Tasks > Monitor > Name Server.

The Name Server window displays.

2. To set an autorefresh rate for the Name Server entries, select the Auto Refresh check box in
the Name Server window, and enter an auto-refresh interval (in seconds).

The minimum (and default) interval is 15 seconds.

Printing the Name Server entries

To set up printing preferences, perform the following steps.

1. Select Tasks > Monitor > Name Server.

The Name Server window displays.

2. Click Print.

3. On the Page Setup dialog box, set up your printing preferences and click OK.

The Print dialog box displays.

4. Select a printer and click OK.

Displaying Name Server information for a particular device

To display Name Server information for a particular device, perform the following steps.

1. Select Tasks > Monitor > Name Server.

The Name Server window displays.

2. Select a device from the Domain column.

3. Click Detail View.

The Name Server Information dialog box displays the information specific to that device.

Displaying zone members for a particular device

To display zone members for a particular device, perform the following steps.

1. Select Tasks > Monitor > Name Server.

The Name Server window displays.

2. Select a device from the Domain column.

3. Click Accessible Devices.

The Zone Accessible Devices window displays accessible zone member information specific to
that device.

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Physically locating a switch using beaconing

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Physically locating a switch using beaconing

Use the Beacon button to physically locate a switch in a fabric. The beaconing function helps to
physically locate a switch by sending a signal to the specified switch, resulting in an LED light
pattern that cycles through all ports for each switch (from left to right).

You must have an RBAC role of admin to initiate switch beaconing. The LED light pattern is initiated
on the actual switch or chassis. It is not mirrored in the Switch View.

To use beaconing, perform the following steps.

1. Select a logical switch using the drop-down list under Fabric Tree section in the Switch Explorer
window.

The selected switch displays in the Switch View.

2. Select Beacon for a switch, or Chassis Beacon for a chassis-based switch.

The LED lights on the actual switch light up on the physical switch in a pattern running back
and forth across the switch itself. In chassis-based switches, the LEDs glow across all the
blades.

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3. Look at the physical switches in your installation location to identify the switch.

Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing

To locate all logical switches in a chassis, perform the following steps.

1. Select a logical switch using the drop-down list under the Fabric Tree section in the Switch
Explorer window.

The selected switch displays in the Switch View.

2. Click Chassis Beacon.

The LEDs on the logical switch light up on the blades associated with the logical switch.

Virtual Fabrics overview

Virtual Fabrics is an architecture that virtualizes hardware boundaries. Traditionally, SAN design
and management is done at the granularity of a physical switch. Each switch and all the ports in
the switch act as a single fabric element that participates in a single fabric. Virtual Fabrics allows
SAN design and management to be done at the granularity of a port. This enables partitioning of a
physical switch into multiple logical switches, which may be organized into logical fabrics.

The following platforms are Virtual Fabrics-capable:

• Brocade DCX and DCX-4S

• Brocade 5300

• Brocade 5100

• Brocade 6510

• Brocade DCX 8510-4

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• Brocade DCX 8510-8

Virtual Fabrics cannot be configured or managed from Web Tools. Configuration and management
is done from either the Brocade Network Advisor, or the Fabric OS command line interface. For
information about configuring and managing Virtual Fabrics, refer to the Brocade Network Advisor
User Manual if you are using Brocade Network Advisor, or Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide if you
are using the Fabric OS command line interface.

You can use Web Tools to view Virtual Fabrics and logical switch configurations.

Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View

You can log in to a specific logical switch, as described in Chapter 1, or you can select a logical
switch from the Switch View. If you do not log in to a specific logical switch, you are presented with
the default logical switch.

Under the Switch Information tab, Base Switch, Default Switch, and Allow XISL Use are specific to
VIrtual Fabrics. These options perform these functions:

• Base Switch indicates whether or not the logical switch can act as a base switch. A base switch

is a special logical switch that can be used for chassis interconnection. Each chassis may only
designate only one logical switch as a base switch.

• Default Switch indicates whether or not the logical switch is the default logical switch. The

default logical switch is equivalent to the normal, discovered physical switch topology. It is
automatically assigned fabric ID 128. If you do not log in to a specific logical switch using
Options on the login dialog box, the default logical switch displays in the Switch View.

• Allow XISL Use indicates whether or not the logical switch is allowed to connect to other logical

switches using an extended inter-switch link (XISL). Base switches may use XISLs. Dynamically
created logical switches can use the XISL for traffic, only if Allow XISL Use is enabled through
CLI using the configure command.

To select a logical switch, perform the following steps.

1. Use the Logical Switch selector to select the fabric ID.

You must have the EGM license installed to view the Logical Switch selection on a Brocade
5100, 5300, or VA-40FC. A dialog box displays asking you to confirm your selection.

2. Click Yes to confirm.

The selected logical switch displays. Note that the Logical Switch selector is relocated above
the Switch View.

Viewing logical ports

When base switches are connected through XISLs, a base fabric is formed that includes logical
switches in different chassis. A logical link is formed dynamically among logical switches that have
the same FID to carry frames between the logical switches. Logical ports are created in the
respective switches to support the logical link.

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Logical ports are software constructs, and have no corresponding hardware to represent them on
the Switch View. Logical port information is available in the Port Administration window.

1. Select Port Administration. The Port Administration window displays. Logical ports are
displayed in the FC Ports Explorer tree structure.

2. To view logical port properties, expand the Logical Ports folder, and select a port. The General
properties are displayed.

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Maintaining Configurations and Firmware

In this chapter

•Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

•Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

•Admin Domain configuration maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

•Uploading and downloading from USB storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

•Performing a firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a configuration backup file

Keep a backup copy of the configuration file in case the configuration is lost or unintentional
changes are made. You should keep individual backup files for all switches in the fabric. You
should avoid copying configurations from one switch to another.

If you upload from a network, enter the host name or IP address in the Host Name or IP field, the
user ID and password required for access to the host in the User Name and Password fields, and
select the Protocol Type used for the upload. The default is FTP. If you select “Secure Copy Protocol
(SCP),” you cannot specify “anonymous” in the User Name field.

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An info

link is enabled when USB is chosen as the source of the configuration file. If you click on

info

, the following information message displays (Figure 11).

FIGURE 11 Information dialog box

To create a configuration backup file, perform the following task.

1. Open the Switch Administration window.

2. Select Show Advanced Mode.

3. Select the Configure tab.

The Configure screen displays.

4. Select the Upload/Download tab.

The Upload/Download configuration screen displays.

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By default, Config Upload is chosen under Function, and Network is chosen as the source of
the configuration file.

5. Enter the configuration file with a fully-qualified path, or select the configuration file name in
the Configuration File Name field.

If you select USB as the configuration file source, the network parameters are not needed and
are not displayed. You can skip to step 6.

6. Use the Fabric ID selector to select the fabric ID of the logical switch from which the
configuration file is to uploaded.

The selector displays all the virtual fabric IDs that have been defined, the default of 128 for the
physical switch, chassis level configuration, and all chassis and switches.

FIGURE 12 Fabric ID selector

If you are using a USB device, it must be connected and mounted before you upload or download.
Refer to “Uploading and downloading from USB storage” on page 60 for more information.

7. C l ic k Apply.

You can monitor the progress by watching the Upload/Download Progress bar.

Restoring a configuration

Restoring a configuration involves overwriting the configuration on the switch by downloading a
previously saved backup configuration file. Perform this procedure during a planned down time.

Make sure that the configuration file you are downloading is compatible with your switch model.
Configuration files from other model switches might cause your switch to fail.

If you download from a network, enter the host name or IP address in the Host Name or IP field, the
user ID and password required for access to the host in the User Name and Password fields, and
select the Protocol Type used for the upload. The default is FTP. If you select “Secure Copy Protocol
(SCP),” you cannot specify “anonymous” in the User Name field.

To restore a configuration, perform the following task.

1. Open the Switch Administration window.

2. Select Show Advanced Mode.

3. Select the Configure tab.

The Configure screen displays.

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4. Select the Upload/Download tab.

The Upload/Download configuration screen displays. By default, Config Upload is chosen
under Function, and Network is chosen as the source of the configuration file.

5. Under Function, select Config Download to Switch.

If you select USB as the configuration file source, the network parameters are not needed and
are not displayed, and you can skip to step 7.

An info

link is enabled when USB is chosen as the source of the configuration file. If you click

info

, an information message displays.

6. Enter the configuration file with a fully-qualified path, or select the configuration file in the
Configuration File Name field.

7. Use the Fabric ID selector to select the fabric ID of the logical switch to which the configuration
file is to downloaded.

The selector displays all the virtual fabric IDs that have been defined, the default of 128 for the
physical switch, chassis level configuration, and all chassis and switches.

8. Enter the fabric ID of the logical switch in Template Fabric ID.

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If you are using a USB device, it must be connected and mounted before you upload or download.
Refer to “Uploading and downloading from USB storage” on page 60 for more information.

9. Click Apply.

You can monitor the progress by watching the Upload/Download Progress bar.

Admin Domain configuration maintenance

When you log in to the switch as a physical fabric administrator and back up a configuration, all
local switch configuration parameters are saved, as well as all Admin Domain membership
information and Admin Domain zone databases.

To perform a configuration upload or download, you should have the Admin Domain of AD255 or
AD0, if no other user-defined Admin Domains exist. A configuration upload or download gathers all
the configuration files for the fabric, including Admin Domains. For more information on Admin
Domains, refer to “Requirements for Admin Domains” on page 63.

When the configuration is backed up, one of the following scenarios is possible:

• If the current Admin Domain does not own the switch and you are logged in with any role that

allows configuration upload or download, the following items are saved in the configuration file:

- Local zone configuration

- No other configuration information

• If the current Admin Domain owns the switch and you are logged in with any role that allows

configuration upload or download, the following items are saved in the configuration file:

- Local zone configuration

- All other configuration information except Admin Domain configuration information

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• If you invoke Admin Domain from AD255 and you are logged in with any role that allows

configuration upload/download, the following items are saved in the configuration file:

- Configuration information for zones in all Admin Domains

- All other configuration information, including zoning from all Admin Domains

The filtering depends on the Admin Domain switch ownership, with additional access if you are in
AD255. Access to the command itself is limited by Role-Based Access (RBAC), and not by whether
the current user is a Physical Fabric Administrator or an admin user with enumerated access to the
relevant domains.

The ability to change Admin Domain context requires installing the EGM license. Refer to “Changing

the Admin Domain context” on page 21 for complete instructions.

The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the:

• Brocade Encryption Switch

• Brocade 300, 5300, and 5100 switches

• Brocade VA-40FC

• Brocade 8000

• Brocade 7800

For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without the EGM license.

Uploading and downloading from USB storage

If you choose to upload or download from a USB device, you must click the USB port to launch the
USB Port Management wizard.

To update your USB storage, perform the following steps.

1. Select Mount USB Device, and select Yes at the confirmation prompt.

2. Right-click on a configuration file to access Export, Copy, and Search options.

3. Click Copy to upload and Export to download.

Performing a firmware download

During a firmware download, the switch restarts and the browser temporarily loses connection with
the switch. When the connection is restored, the version of the software running in the browser is
different from the new software version that was installed and activated on the switch. You must
close all of the Web Tools windows and log in again to avoid a firmware version mismatch. Note
that for chassis-based switches, you might get popup messages that imply the loss of connection is
temporary and will soon be resolved. You must still close all windows and re-log in.

When you request a firmware download, the system first checks the file size being downloaded. If
the compact flash does not have enough space, Web Tools displays a message and the download
does not occur. If this happens, contact your switch support supplier.

You can perform a firmware download only when the current Admin Domain owns the switch.

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To download a new firmware version, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration

window” on page 33.

2. Select the Firmware Download tab.

3. Choose to download either the firmware or the firmware key.

The download source can be located on the network or a USB device.

When you select the USB button, you can specify only a firmware path or directory name. No
other fields on the tab are available. The USB button is available if the USB is present on the
switch.

4. Enter the host name or IP address, user name, password, and fully-qualified path to the file
release.plist.

You can enter the IP address in either IPv4 or IPv6 format.

The path name should use the following structure:

//<directory>/<fos_version_directory>/release.plist

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where the <directory> is the path up to the entry point of <fos_version_directory> and
<fos_version_directory> is where the unzipped version of Fabric OS is located.

Example

//directory_1/my_directory/v7.0.0/release.plist

5. Select the protocol type in the Protocol Type field.

If you select “Secure Copy Protocol (SCP),” you cannot specify “anonymous” in the User field.

6. Click Apply.

The firmware download begins. You can monitor the progress by looking at the Firmware
Download progress bar.

About halfway through the download process, after the firmware key is downloaded to the
switch, connection to the switch is lost and Web Tools invalidates the current session. Web
Tools invalidates all windows because upfront login is always enabled and cannot be disabled.

7. Close all Web Tools windows and log in again.

If the firmware download is in progress when you log in, you can continue to monitor its
progress.

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Managing Administrative Domains

In this chapter

•Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

•Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

•Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

•Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

•Modifying Admin Domain members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Administrative Domain overview

Using Administrative Domains (Admin Domains or ADs), you can partition the fabric into logical
groups and allocate administration of these groups to different user accounts so that these
accounts manage only the Admin Domains assigned to them and do not make changes to the rest
of the fabric. The ability to assign an Admin Domain to a specific user account is performed in the
User tab of the Switch Administration window and not in the Admin Domain window.

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You can create domains that are grouped together based on the type of members in the domain.
For example, you can create Admin Domains based on the type of switches in your fabric using the
WWN (not to be confused with the Admin Domain number) or put all the devices in a particular
department in the same Admin Domain for ease of administering those devices.

You can have up to 256 Admin Domains in a fabric (254 user-defined and 2 system-defined),
numbered from 0 through 255. Admin Domains are designated by a name and a number. This
document refers to specific Admin Domains using the format “ADn” where n is a number between
0 and 255.

ADs and Virtual Fabrics are mutually exclusive. Virtual Fabrics must be disabled if you want to use
the AD feature.

Requirements for Admin Domains

The following are the requirements for using administrative domains:

• Admin Domains are supported on fabrics with switches running Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later.

• To manage Admin Domains, you must be a physical fabric administrator. A physical fabric

administrator is a user with the Admin role and access to all Admin Domains (AD0 through
AD255).

• The default zone mode setting must be set to No Access (refer to “Enabling Admin Domains”

on page 65).

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User-defined Admin Domains

AD1 through AD254 are user-defined Admin Domains. These user-defined Admin Domains can be
created only by a physical fabric administrator in AD255.

System-defined Admin Domains

AD0 and AD255 are special Admin Domains and are present in every AD-capable fabric.

AD0

AD0 is a system-defined Admin Domain that, in addition to containing members you explicitly
added (similar to user-defined Admin Domains), it contains all online devices, switches, and switch
ports that were not assigned to any user-defined Admin Domain.

AD0 also implicitly contains all devices from switches running Fabric OS versions earlier than 5.2.0,
as they can never be part of an Admin Domain unless they are upgraded to v5.2.0 or later.

Unlike user-defined Admin Domains, AD0 has both an automatic membership list and a fixed
membership list. User-defined Admin Domains have only a fixed membership list.

• Automatic membership list—Contains all devices and switches that were not assigned to any

other Admin Domain.

• Fixed membership list—Contains all devices and switches that you explicitly add to AD0 and

can be used to force device and switch sharing between AD0 and other Admin Domains.

The Admin Domain window displays the fixed members and not the automatic members, you can
use the View menu to display a list of the automatic members.

AD0 can be managed like any user-defined Admin Domain. The only difference between AD0 and
user-defined Admin Domains is the automatic membership list.

In filtered views, the automatic members of AD0 are considered direct members.

The automatic members of AD0 change dynamically as the membership of other Admin Domains
changes. The fixed members of AD0 are not deleted unless you explicitly remove them.

For example, if you explicitly add DeviceA to AD0 and it is not a member of any other Admin
Domain, then DeviceA is both an automatic and a fixed member of AD0. If you add DeviceA to AD2,
then DeviceA is deleted from the AD0 automatic membership list, but is not deleted from the AD0
fixed membership list. If you then remove DeviceA from AD2, DeviceA is added back to the AD0
automatic membership list (assuming DeviceA is not in any other Admin Domains).

AD0 is useful if you want to share its zone database (called “root zone database”) with a legacy
fabric.

AD255 or physical fabric

AD255 is a virtual domain that contains all devices, switches, and switch ports in the fabric. AD255
presents an unfiltered view of the fabric and is also referred to as the physical fabric.

You can use AD255 to do the following:

• Manage other Admin Domains.

• Get an unfiltered view of the fabric.

• Manage ACL and distribution (this can be managed in AD0 if no other Admin Domains are

present).

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• Manage Advanced Performance Monitoring (this can be managed in AD0 if no other Admin

Domains are present, but only if you are using Web Tools with the EGM license).

The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the:

• Brocade Encryption Switch

• Brocade 300, 5300, and 5100 switches

• Brocade VA-40FC

• Brocade 8000

• Brocade 7800

For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.

You cannot manage zones with AD255, because AD255 does not have a zone database associated
with it.

Admin Domain membership

Switches, ports, and devices can be members of an Admin Domain. Admin Domain members can
be either direct or indirect members as described below:

• Direct members—Devices, switches, and ports that you explicitly add to an Admin Domain.

Direct members are listed in the Admin Domain membership list.

• Indirect port members—Ports that are implicitly added as part of an Admin Domain when any

of the following occurs:

- A device that is connected to a port was added to the Admin Domain.

- A switch to which the port belongs is a member of the Admin Domain.

• Indirect device members—Devices that are connected to ports that are direct members of an

Admin Domain.

Enabling Admin Domains

The default zone mode setting gives attached devices either All Access to all devices or No Access
to all devices. To begin implementing an Admin Domain structure within a SAN, you must set the
default zone mode to No Access. You must be in AD0 to change the default zone mode. After the
default zone mode is set to No Access, you cannot change it from the physical fabric.

The term “physical fabric” is used in Web Tools only.

Even though the default zone mode access is set to No Access, you can still create and enable
zones within each Admin Domain. These zones are configurable only from the Admin Domain in
which they were created. Indirect port members cannot be zoned.

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To enable Admin Domains, perform the following steps.

1. Change the Admin Domain context to AD0. Refer to “Changing the Admin Domain context” on
page 21.

Changing the Admin Domain context requires using Web Tools with the EGM license;
otherwise, access to this feature is denied and an error message displays. Change the Default
Zone mode to No Access. Refer to “Setting the default zoning mode” on page 119 for more
information.

2. Navigate to AD255 or the physical fabric and begin managing the Admin Domains.

Admin Domain window

You can view and manage Admin Domains through the Admin Domain window.

If you are not using Web Tools with the EGM licensed installed, managing Admin Domain
operations is denied and an error message displays.

The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the:

• Brocade Encryption Switch

• Brocade 300, 5300, and 5100 switches

• Brocade VA-40FC

• Brocade 8000

• Brocade 7800

For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.

The Admin Domain window displays information about the Admin Domains that are defined in the
fabric. If you launch the Admin Domain window from AD255 (physical fabric), the window contains
information about the current content of all Admin Domains. If you launch the Admin Domain
window from any other Admin Domain, the window displays the current Admin Domain only.

To manage Admin Domains, you must be logged in with the role of Admin.

Any changes you make in the Admin Domain window are held in a buffered environment and are not
saved to persistent storage until you explicitly save the changes. If you close the Admin Domain
window without saving your changes, your changes are lost.

To save the buffered changes you make to persistent storage in the Admin Domain window, refer to

“Saving local Admin Domain changes” on page 68.

When you are logged into AD0, if a physical fabric administrator modifies the AD configuration from
another session, the changes in the membership might not be visible to you.

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When you launch the Admin Domain window and select the parent Admin Domains node in the tree
on the left pane, the Admin Domain window displays summary information about all of the Admin
Domains. You can also select a specific Admin Domain from the tree to display detailed information
about that Admin Domain. The detailed view displays summary information as well as information
about the online switch, port, and device members of the selected Admin Domain.

The tree only displays launched switches and their ports. It also displays all the devices in the fabric.
Slot and port information of other switches are not displayed in the tree.

The Admin Domain window has the following buttons in a task bar at the top of the window:

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• New allows you to create a new Admin Domain.

• Print allows you to print the current or effective configuration.

• Refresh allows you to refresh the information for the entire fabric or a specific Admin Domain.

• Apply allows you to apply a configuration.

• Save allows you to save a configuration.

• Clear allows you to clear the configuration.

You can right-click on any of the table content in the Admin Domain window to access Export, Copy,
and Search options. The options are not available if the table does not have any content.

You must accept the Brocade Certificate at the beginning of the log in to Web Tools to enable the
functionality of Export and Copy.

• Click Export Row or Export Table to save the contents to a tab-delimited file.

• Click Copy Row or Copy Table to copy the contents in tab-delimited text format to a file.

• Click Search to search for a specific text string in the table.

The Switch Members dialog box displays.

In the Switch Members dialog box, enter the text string and press Enter. This is an incremental
search and allows 24 maximum characters including the wildcards question mark (?) and
asterisk (*). The first row containing the text string is highlighted. To find the next match, press
the down arrow. To find the previous match, press the up arrow. If the text is not found in the
table, the text turns red.

Opening the Admin Domain window

Use the Admin Domain window to perform all Admin Domain configuration procedures.

If you want to configure Admin Domains, you must launch the Admin Domain window from the
physical fabric context. If you are in any Admin Domain other than the physical fabric, the module
launches in read-only mode.

The switch must be running Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later.

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To open an Admin Domain window, perform the following steps.

1. Select a switch from the Fabric Tree and log in when prompted.

Switch View displays information for the selected switch.

2. If you plan to modify the Admin Domain configuration, from the Admin Domain menu, select
Physical Fabric.

3. Click Admin Domain in the Manage section of the Task s menu.

The Admin Domain window displays.

Refreshing fabric information

When you refresh, the system updates the display of fabric elements only (switches, ports, and
devices). It does not update Admin Domain changes in the Admin Domain window.

This option allows you to refresh the fabric element information displayed at any time.

To refresh the fabric information open the Admin Domain window and click Refresh. The status for
the fabric, including switches, ports, and devices is refreshed.

Refreshing Admin Domain information

Any changes you make in the Admin Domain window are saved to a local buffer. They are not
applied to persistent storage until you invoke one of the transactional operations listed in the
Actions menu.

You can refresh the Admin Domain information at any time to reflect changes that might have been
made by other users or to back out of current, unsaved work and start again.

When you refresh the buffered information in the Admin Domain window, any Admin Domain
configuration changes you made and not yet saved are erased from the buffer and replaced with the
currently enabled Admin Domain information that is saved on the switch.

To update the information in the Admin Domain window with the information saved on the switch,
perform the following steps.

1. In the Admin Domain window, click the Refresh arrow.

2. Click Refresh Admin Domains.

The information in the Admin Domain window is updated with the saved information on the
switch. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in “Refreshing fabric

information” on page 68. Any unsaved Admin Domain changes are deleted.

Saving local Admin Domain changes

All information displayed and all changes made in the Admin Domain window are buffered until you
save the changes. That means that any other user looking at the Admin Domain information for the
switch does not see the changes you made until you save them.

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To save the local Admin Domain changes, perform the following steps.

1. Select Actions > Save AD Configuration to save your changes to persistent storage as the
defined Admin Domain configuration.

2. Select Actions > Apply AD Configuration to save your changes to persistent storage and make
your changes effective in the fabric.

These options are not enabled until you make a change to the Admin Domain configuration.

If another user has an Admin Domain operation in progress at the time that you attempt to save
changes, Web Tools displays a warning to indicate that another Admin Domain transaction is in
progress on the fabric. You can select to abort the other transaction and override it with yours.

This action updates the entire contents of the Admin Domain window, not just the selected Admin
Domain. You can save your changes at any time during the Admin Domain configuration session.

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Closing the Admin Domain window

It is important to remember that any changes you make in the Admin Domain window are not saved
automatically.

To close the Admin Domain window, perform the following steps.

1. In the Admin Domain window, select File > Close.

If there are changes in the buffer that were not saved, a warning message displays. Confirm
that you want to close the Admin Domain session without saving the changes.

2. Click Yes to close without saving changes, or click No to go back to the Admin Domain window
to save the changes (refer to “Saving local Admin Domain changes” on page 68).

Creating and populating domains

Setting up an Admin Domain involves the following steps.

1. Creating an Admin Domain.

2. Assigning one or more administrators to the Admin Domain.

The Admin account always has access to administer the Admin Domains, even if no other
users are assigned (refer to “Changing user account parameters” on page 180).

When you create an Admin Domain, you can activate the Admin Domain after you finish creating it.
If you activate the Admin Domain, you must click Apply to transfer your changes from the Web Tools
database to the fabric database so that your changes are applied to the fabric. You can log in to an
active Admin Domain. You cannot log in to an Admin Domain that was deactivated.

Creating an Admin Domain

To create an Admin Domain, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Admin Domain window, as described in “Opening the Admin Domain window” on
page 67.

2. Click New.

The Create Admin Domain wizard displays.

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3. In the Name area, assign an Admin Domain name.

You can specify a name or let the system assign the name for you.

4. In the ID area, assign an Admin Domain ID.

You can specify an ID or let the system assign the ID for you.

5. In the State area, select the Active check box to activate the Admin Domain when you finish
creating it.

Clear the Active check box if you want the Admin Domain deactivated when you finish creating
it.

6. Click Next.

7. In t h e Membership area, assign members to the Admin Domain by selecting them in the
Available Members section and clicking Add, Add Ports, or Add Devices as described below:

• Select a switch, port, or device in the Available Members tree and click Add to add the

selected element.

Alternatively, you can press the Insert key to add your selections.

• Select a switch or slot and click Add Ports to add all of the ports in the selected switch or

slot.

• Select a switch, slot, or port and click Add Devices to add all of the devices for the selected

element.

8. Optional: Click Manual to add offline devices.

To add ports or other switches in the fabric, launch the Add Member wizard by clicking the
Manual button.

9. Click Next.

The wizard displays a summary of the Admin Domain. Read the summary to verify that the
Admin Domain setup is correctly.

10. Click Finish to close the wizard.

11. Click Save to save the new Admin Domain configuration to persistent storage.

12. Click Apply to enforce the new Admin Domain configuration as the effective configuration.

Adding ports or switches to the fabric

To add ports or switches to the fabric, perform the following steps.

1. From the Create Admin Domain wizard, click Manual.

The Add Member window displays.

2. Select Port and enter the member ID in the Member field using the Domain Index (D,I) format.

3. Click Apply to enforce the added members, and then click OK to accept the changes.

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Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain

To activate or deactivate an Admin Domain, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Admin Domain window.

2. From the tree on the left, select the Admin Domain you want to activate or deactivate.

3. Click Activate to activate the Admin Domain, or click Deactivate to deactivate the Admin
Domain.

4. Select Actions > Save AD Configuration to save the new Admin Domain configuration to
persistent storage.

5. Select Actions > Apply AD Configuration to enforce the new Admin Domain configuration as the
effective configuration.

When you deactivate an Admin Domain, the members or devices assigned to the domain can
no longer access its hosts or storage unless those devices are part of another Admin Domain.

When you deactivate an Admin Domain, no one can use this Admin Domain to log in to a
switch.

Modifying Admin Domain members

To modify members from an Admin Domain, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Admin Domain window.

2. From the tree on the left, select the Admin Domain you want to modify.

3. Click Modify.

The Modify Admin Domain wizard displays the Membership step.

4. Assign members to the Admin Domain by selecting them in the Available Members section and
clicking Add, Add Ports, or Add Devices as described below:

• Select a switch, port, or device in the Available Members tree and click Add to add the

selected element.

Alternatively, you can press the Insert key to add your selections.

• Select a switch or slot and click Add Ports to add all of the ports in the selected switch or

slot.

• Select a switch, slot, or port, and click Add Devices to add all of the devices for the

selected element.

5. Optional: Click Manual to add offline switches and devices.

6. Remove members from the Admin Domain by selecting them in the Selected Members section
and clicking Remove.

Alternatively, you can press the Delete key to remove selected items.

7. C l ic k Next. Use the summary to verify that the Admin Domain setup is correct.

8. Click Finish.

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9. Select Actions > Save AD Configuration to save the new Admin Domain configuration to
persistent storage.

10. Select Actions > Apply AD Configuration to enforce the new Admin Domain configuration as the
effective configuration.

Renaming Admin Domains

You can change the name of an Admin Domain, including an auto-assigned ID name. The Admin
Domain name cannot exceed 63 characters and can contain alphabetic and numeric characters.
The only special character allowed is an underscore ( _ ).

You cannot rename AD0 or AD255.

To rename an Admin Domain, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Admin Domain window.

2. From the tree on the left, select the Admin Domain.

3. Click Rename.

4. Enter the new name and click OK.

5. Select Actions > Save AD Configuration to save the new Admin Domain configuration to
persistent storage.

6. Select Actions > Apply AD Configuration to enforce the new Admin Domain configuration as the
effective configuration.

Deleting Admin Domains

When you delete an Admin Domain, its devices no longer have access to the members of the zones
with which it was associated.

To delete an Admin Domain, perform the following steps.

1. Open the Admin Domain window.

2. From the tree on the left, select the Admin Domain.

3. Click Delete.

4. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to delete the domain.

The system deletes the Admin Domain.

5. Select Actions > Save AD Configuration to save the new Admin Domain configuration to
persistent storage.

6. Select Actions > Apply AD Configuration to enforce the new Admin Domain configuration as the
effective configuration.

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