HP StorageWorks 2.128 User Manual

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x administrator guide

Part number: AA–RVHWB–TE Second edition: September 2005

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Fabric OS 5.x administrator guide

About this guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Document conventions and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

HP technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

HP-authorized reseller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Helpful web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1 Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About procedural differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Scope and references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Help information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Displaying command help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Additional help topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2 Performing basic configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting to the Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting with telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting through the serial port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Setting the IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Setting the default account passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Changing the default passwords at login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Synchronizing local time with an external source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Setting the time zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Maintaining licensed features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Unlocking a licensed feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Removing a licensed feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Customizing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Customizing the switch name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Customizing the chassis name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Changing the chassis name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Disabling and enabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Enabling a switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Disabling and enabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Disabling a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Enabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Activating Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Activating Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Making basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Connecting to devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Connecting to other switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Working with domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Displaying domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Setting the domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Linking through a gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Configuring a link through a gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Checking status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Checking switch operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Verifying HA features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Verifying fabric connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Verifying device connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Tracking and controlling switch changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Enabling the TC feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Displaying the status of the TC feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Viewing the switch status policy threshold values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Setting the switch status policy threshold values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3 Configuring standard security features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Secure protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Ensuring network security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Configuring the telnet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Disabling telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Enabling telnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Blocking listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Accessing switches and fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating and maintaining user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Displaying account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating a user-defined account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Deleting a user-defined account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing account parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Recovering user-defined accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing an account password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing the password for the current login account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing the password for a different account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting up RADIUS AAA service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Configuring the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adding the attribute to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Creating the user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Enabling clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Enabling CHAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Configuring users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Displaying the current RADIUS configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adding a RADIUS server to the switch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Enabling or disabling RADIUS service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Deleting a RADIUS server from the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Changing a RADIUS server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Changing the order in which RADIUS servers are contacted for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Enabling and disabling local authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Configuring for the SSL protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Browser and Java support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Summary of SSL procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Choosing a CA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Generating a public/private key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Generating and storing a CSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Obtaining certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing a switch certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Activating a switch certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Configuring the browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Checking and installing root certificates on Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Checking and installing root certificates on Mozilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing a root certificate to the Java Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Displaying and deleting certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Troubleshooting certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring SNMP agent and traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Setting the security level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the snmpConfig command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using legacy commands for SNMPv1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Configuring secure file copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Setting the boot PROM password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Brocade

4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Without a recovery string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Brocade

4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Recovering forgotten passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

4 Maintaining configurations and firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Maintaining configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Displaying configuration settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Backing up a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Restoring configurations in a FICON environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Downloading configurations across a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Printing hard copies of switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Maintaining firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Obtaining and unzipping firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Checking connected switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

About the download process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Effects of firmware changes on accounts and passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Considerations for downgrading firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Considerations for FICON CUP environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Upgrading HP StorageWorks switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Summary of the upgrade process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Upgrading 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32 . . . . . . . . . . 80

Upgrading HP StorageWorks directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Summary of the upgrade process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Upgrading the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Troubleshooting firmware downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

5 Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director . . . . . . 87

Identifying ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

By slot and port number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

By port area ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Basic blade management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Powering port blades off and on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Powering off a port blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Providing power to a port blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Disabling and enabling port blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Disabling a port blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Enabling a port blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Conserving power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Blade terminology and compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

CP blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Port blade compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Setting chassis configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Obtaining slot information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Displaying the status of all slots in the chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring a new SAN Director 2/128 with two domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Converting an installed SAN Director 2/128 to support two domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Setting the blade beacon mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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6 Routing traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

About data routing and routing policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Specifying the routing policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Assigning a static route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Forcing in-order frame delivery across topology changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Restoring out-of-order frame delivery across topology changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using DLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Checking and setting DLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Viewing routing path information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Viewing routing information along a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

7 Administering FICON fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

FICON overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Configuring switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Preparing a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Configuring a single switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Configuring a high-integrity fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Setting a unique domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Displaying information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Link incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Registered listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Node identification data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

FRU failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Swapping ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Clearing the FICON management database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using FICON CUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Setup summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Enabling and disabling FMS mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Setting up CUP when FMS mode is enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Displaying the fmsmode setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Displaying mode register bit settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Setting mode register bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Persistently enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Port and switch naming standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Adding and removing FICON CUP licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Zoning and PDCM considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Backing up and restoring configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Identifying ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Backing up FICON files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Uploading the configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Downloading configuration files with Active=Saved mode enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Downloading configuration files with Active=Saved mode disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Recording configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Sample IOCP configuration file for the SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN Director 2/128

120

Sample Resource Management Facility configuration file for mainframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

8 Configuring the Distributed Management Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Enabling and disabling the platform services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Enabling platform services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Disabling platform services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Controlling access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Displaying the management server ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adding a member to the ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Deleting a member from the ACL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring the server database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Viewing the contents of the management server database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Clearing the management server database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Controlling topology discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Displaying topology discovery status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Enabling topology discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Disabling topology discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

9 Working with diagnostic features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Viewing POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Viewing switch status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Viewing the overall status of the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Displaying the uptime for a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Viewing port information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Viewing the status of a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Displaying the port statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Displaying a summary of port errors for a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Viewing equipment status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Displaying the status of the fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Displaying the status of a power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Displaying temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Viewing the system message log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Displaying the system message log, with no page breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Displaying the system message log, one page at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Clearing the system message log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Viewing the port log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Configuring for syslogd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Configuring the host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Configuring the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Specifying syslogd hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Setting the facility level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Removing a syslogd host from the list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Viewing and saving diagnostic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Enabling the automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Setting up periodic checking of the remote server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Saving a comprehensive set of diagnostic files to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

10Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Most common problem areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Gathering information for technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Troubleshooting questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Analyzing connection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Checking the logical connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Checking for Fibre Channel connectivity problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Checking the Simple Name Server (SNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Checking for zoning problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Restoring a segmented fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Reconciling fabric parameters individually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Downloading a correct configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Reconciling a domain ID conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Correcting zoning setup issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Correcting a fabric merge problem quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Verifying a fabric merge problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Editing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Reordering the zone member list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Recognizing MQ errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Correcting I2C bus errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Checking fan components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

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Checking the switch temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Checking the power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Checking the temperature, fan, and power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Correcting device login issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Identifying media-related issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Testing a port’s external transmit and receive path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Testing a switch’s internal components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Testing components to and from the HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Correcting link failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Determining whether the negotiation was successfully completed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Checking for a loop initialization failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Checking for a point-to-point initialization failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Correcting a port that came up in the wrong mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Correcting marginal links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Inaccurate information in the system message log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Port initialization and FCP auto-discovery process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

11Administering extended fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

About extended link buffer allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, and SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128,

and 4/256 SAN Director (FC2-16 port blades). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, SAN Switch 4/32, and 4/256 SAN Director (FC4-16

and FC4-32 port blades) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Fabric considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Choosing an extended ISL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Configuring an extended ISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Trunking over distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

12Administering ISL trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

About ISL trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Standard trunking criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Fabric considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Initializing trunking on ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Disabling and reenabling the switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Disabling and reenabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Monitoring traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Using the portperfshow command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Enabling and disabling ISL trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Enabling or disabling ISL trunking on one port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Enabling or disabling ISL trunking for all of the ports on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Setting port speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Setting the speed for one port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Setting the speed for all of the ports on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Displaying trunking information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Trunking over extended fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Troubleshooting trunking problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Listing link characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Recognizing buffer underallocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Getting out of buffer-limited mode on E_Ports or LD_Ports: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

13Administering advanced zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Zoning terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Zoning concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Zone types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Zone objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Zoning enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Software-enforced zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Hardware-enforced zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Rules for configuring zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Creating and managing zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Creating an alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Adding members to an alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Removing members from an alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Deleting an alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Viewing an alias in the defined configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Creating and maintaining zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Creating a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Adding devices (members) to a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Removing devices (members) from a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Deleting a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Viewing a zone in the defined configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Merging zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Creating and modifying zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Creating a zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Adding zones (members) to a zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Removing zones (members) from a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Deleting a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Clearing changes to a configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Viewing all zone configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Viewing selected zone configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Viewing a configuration in the effective zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Maintaining zone objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Copying a zone object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Deleting a zone object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Renaming a zone object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Managing zoning configurations in a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Adding a new switch or fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Splitting a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using zoning to administer security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Resolving zone conflicts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

14Administering advanced performance monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Displaying and clearing the CRC error count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Monitoring EE performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Adding EE monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Monitoring the traffic from Host A to Dev B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Monitoring the traffic from Dev B to Host A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Setting a mask for EE monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Displaying the current EE mask of a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Displaying a monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Deleting EE monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Monitoring filter-based performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Adding standard filter-based monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Adding custom filter-based monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Adding filter-based monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Deleting filter-based monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Monitoring ISL performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Monitoring trunks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Displaying monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Clearing monitor counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Saving and restoring monitor configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Collecting performance data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

A Configuring the PID format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

About PIDs and PID binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Summary of PID formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Impact of changing the fabric PID format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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Host reboots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Static PID mapping errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Changes to configuration data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Selecting a PID format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Evaluating the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Planning the update procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Online update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Offline update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Hybrid update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Changing to Core PID format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Changing to Extended Edge PID format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Converting port number to area ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

PID format changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Executing the basic procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Executing the HP–UX procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Executing the AIX procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Swapping port area IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

B Configuring interoperability mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

C Using the HP Remote Switch feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

D Understanding legacy password behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Password management information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Password prompting behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Password migration during firmware changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Password recovery options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

E Zone merging scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

F Upgrading firmware in single-CP mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Upgrading HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, and SAN

Switch 4/32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Upgrading a single Core Switch 2/64 or SAN Director 2/128 blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Figures

1 Cascaded configuration with two switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

2 Cascaded configuration with three switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

3 FICON switch configuration worksheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

4 Distribution of traffic over ISL trunking groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

5 Zoning example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

6 Hardware-enforced non-overlap ping zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

7 Hardware-enforced overlapping zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

8 Zoning with hardware assist (mixed-port and WWN zones) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

9 Session-based hard zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

10 Setting EE monitors on a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

11 Proper placement of EE performance monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

12 Mask positions for EE monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

13 4/256 SAN Director with Extended Edge PID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Tables

1 Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 Maximum number of simultaneous sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3 Conversion from UTC to local time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4 Secure protocol support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5 Items needed to deploy secure protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6 Main security scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

7 Blocked listener applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

8 Access defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

9 SSL certificate files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

10 Commands to display and delete SSL certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

11 SSL messages and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

12 Backup and restore in a FICON CUP environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

13 Recommended firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

14 Effects of firmware changes on accounts and passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

15 HP StorageWorks director terminology and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

16 Blades supported by each HP StorageWorks director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

17 Supported configuration options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

18 Fabric OS commands related to FICON and FICON CUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

19 FICON CUP mode register bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

20 Port error summary description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

21 Commands for port log management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

22 Fabric OS and UNIX message severities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

23 Common troubleshooting problems and tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

24 Types of zone discrepancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

25 Commands for debugging zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

26 Component test descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

27 Switch component tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

28 Switchshow output and suggested action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

29 Loopback modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

30 Extended ISL modes: switches with Bloom ASIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

31 Extended ISL modes: switches with Goldeneye ASIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

32 Extended ISL modes: switches with Condor ASIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

33 Types of zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

34 Approaches to fabric-based zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

35 Enforcing hardware zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

36 Resulting database size: 0 to 96K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

37 Resulting database size: 96K to 128K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

38 Resulting database size: 128K to 256K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

39 Resulting database size: 256K to 1M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

40 Zoning database limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

41 Considerations for zoning architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

42 Advanced performance monitoring commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

43 Commands to add filter-based monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

44 Predefined values at offset 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

45 Effects of PID format changes on configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

46 PID format recommendations for adding new switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

47 Earliest Fabric OS versions for Extended Edge PID format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

48 Account and password characteristics matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

49 Password prompting matrix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

50 Password migration behavior during firmware upgrade and downgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

51 Password recovery options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

52 Zone merging scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

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About this guide

This guide provides information about:

• Fabric OS procedures

• Basic configuration tasks

• Security features

• Diagnostics

• Extended fabrics

• ISL trunking

• Zoning

• Performance monitoring

NOTE: FICON is not supported on HP B-Series Fibre Channel switches. The FICON information in this

document is included for reference only.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for:

• System administrators responsible for setting up HP StorageWorks Fibre Channel Storage Area

Network (SAN) switches

• Technicians responsible for maintaining the Fabric Operating System (OS)

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary

This guide uses industry standard SAN terminology. However, some terms are intrinsic to Fabric OS 5.x. See the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary for a complete list of terms and definitions.

Access the master glossary from the HP StorageWorks SAN Switch Documentation CD that shipped with your switch. Also, access from the HP web site using the procedure outlined in ”Related documentation”.

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Document conventions and symbols

Table 1 Document conventions

Convention Element

Medium blue text: Figure 1 Cross-reference links and e-mail addresses

Medium blue, underlined text (http://www.hp.com)

Bold font • Key names

Italics font Text emphasis Monospace font • File and directory names

Monospace, italic font • Code variables

Monospace, bold font Emphasis of file and directory names, system output, code, and text

Web site addresses

• Text typed into a GUI element, such as into a box

• GUI elements that are clicked or selected, such as menu and list

items, buttons, and check boxes

• System output

• Code

• Text typed at the command-line

• Command line variables

typed at the command line

WARNING! Indicates that failure to follow directions could result in bodily harm or death.

CAUTION: Indicates that failure to follow directions could result in damage to equipment or data.

IMPORTANT: Provides clarifying information or specific instructions.

NOTE: Provides additional information.

TIP: Provides helpful hints and shortcuts.

HP technical support

Telephone numbers for worldwide technical support are listed on the HP support web site:

http://www.hp.com/support/

Collect the following information before calling:

• Technical support registration number (if applicable)

• Product serial numbers

• Product model names and numbers

• Applicable error messages

• Operating system type and revision level

• Detailed, specific questions

For continuous quality improvement, calls may be recorded or monitored.

HP strongly recommends that customers sign up online using the Subscriber's choice web site:

http://www.hp.com/go/e-updates

• Subscribing to this service provides you with e-mail updates on the latest product enhancements,

newest versions of drivers, and firmware documentation updates as well as instant access to numerous other product resources.

• After signing up, you can quickly locate your products by selecting Business support and then Storage

under Product Category.

HP-authorized reseller

For the name of your nearest HP-authorized reseller:

• In the United States, call 1-800-282-6672.

• Elsewhere, visit the HP web site: http://www.hp.com

telephone numbers.

Helpful web sites

For other product information, see the following HP web sites:

. Click Contact HP to find locations and

• http://www.hp.com

• http://www.hp.com/go/storage

• http://www.hp.com/support/

• http://www.docs.hp.com

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1 Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures

This chapter contains procedures for configuring and managing an HP StorageWorks Storage Area Network (SAN) using the Fabric OS Command Line Interface (CLI).

The guide applies to the following HP StorageWorks product models:

• HP StorageWorks switches: 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch

2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32

These HP StorageWorks models contain a fixed number of ports (they are fixed-port switches). The SAN Switch 4/32, 4/8 SAN Switch, and 4/16 SAN Switch allow you to license and activate extra fixed ports with the Ports on Demand feature.

• HP StorageWorks directors: Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director

These HP StorageWorks models can contain a variable number of ports, which you install by plugging port blades into the director chassis. The 4/256 SAN Director can have up to 256 ports; the Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 can have up to 128 ports.

About procedural differences

As a result of the differences between fixed-port and variable-port devices, procedures sometimes differ among HP StorageWorks models. Also, because the domain architecture of the Core Switch 2/64 differs from that of the SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director, there are sometimes procedural differences among these models. As new HP StorageWorks models are introduced, new features sometimes apply only to those models.

When procedures or parts of procedures apply to some models but not others, this guide identifies the specifics for each model. For example, a number of procedures that apply only to variable-port devices are found in ”Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director” on page 87. Procedures that apply only to the SAN Switch 4/32 are labeled as such.

NOTE: When command examples in this guide show user input enclosed in quotation marks, the

quotation marks are required for versions of Fabric OS earlier than 4.0.0. They are optional in later versions, unless specifically called for in the procedures.

Scope and references

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by HP, documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this guide. In some cases, earlier releases of Fabric OS are documented to present considerations for interoperating with them.

The installation guides for HP StorageWorks products describe how to power up devices and set their IP addresses. After the IP address is set, you can use the CLI procedures contained in this guide.

This guide provides only the level of detail required to perform the procedures. If you need more information about the commands used in the procedures, see online help or the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide.

You can use several access methods to configure a switch:

• CLI

• A telnet session into logical switches

• A telnet session into active and standby CPs for director class switches

• A serial console, including active and standby CPs for director class switches

• An optional modem, which behaves like a serial console port For CLI details, see the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide.

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• Advanced Web Tools: For Advanced Web Tools procedures, see the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS

5.x Advanced Web Tools administrator guide.

• Fabric Manager: For Fabric Manager procedures, see the HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.x

administrator guide.

• A third-party application using the API: For third-party application procedures, see the third-party API

documentation.

About the CLI

The Fabric OS CLI is the complete fabric management tool for HP StorageWorks SANs that enables you to:

• Access the full range of Fabric OS features, based on license keys

• Configure, monitor, dynamically provision, and manage every aspect of the SAN

• Configure and manage the HP StorageWorks fabric on multiple, efficient levels

• Identify, isolate, and manage SAN events across every switch in the fabric

• Manage switch licenses

• Perform fabric stamping

To manage a switch using telnet, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and Advanced Web Tools, the switch must be connected to a network through the switch Ethernet port (out of band) or from the Fibre Channel (in band). The switch must be configured with an IP address to allow for the network connection. See the installation guide for your switch model for information on physically connecting to the switch.

You can access switches from different connections, such as Advanced Web Tools, CLI, and API. When these connections are simultaneous, changes from one connection might not be updated to the other, and some modifications might be lost. When simultaneous connections are used, make sure that you do not overwrite the work of another connection.

In a mixed fabric containing switches running various Fabric OS versions, you should use the latest-model switches running the most recent release for the primary management tasks. The principal management access should be set to the core switches in the fabric. For example, to run Secure Fabric OS, use the latest-model switch as the primary Fabric Configuration Server (FCS), the location to perform zoning tasks, and the time server.

A number of management tasks are designed to make fabric-level changes; for example, zoning commands make changes that affect the entire fabric. When executing fabric-level configuration tasks, allow time for the changes to propagate across the fabric before executing any subsequent tasks. For a large fabric, it might be take a few minutes.

Help information

Each Fabric OS command provides Help information that explains the command function, its possible operands, its level in the command hierarchy, and additional pertinent information.

Displaying command help

To display help information:

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. To display a list of all command help topics for a given login level, issue the help command with no

arguments. For example, if you are logged in as user and issue the help command, a list of all user-level

commands that can be executed is displayed. The same rule applies to the admin role. In addition, any user-configured command that uses a switchAdmin role also displays commands available to users with the switchAdmin role.

3. To display help for a specific command for a given login level, issue help command, where

command is the name of the command for which you need information.

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For example:

switch:admin> help configure Administrative Commands configure(1m) NAME configure - change system configuration settings SYNOPSIS configure AVAILABILITY admin DESCRIPTION This command changes some system configuration settings, including: o Arbitrated loop settings o Switch fabric settings o System services settings o Virtual channel settings (output truncated)

Additional help topics

The following commands provide help files for specific topics:

• diagHelp provides diagnostic information

• ficonHelp provides Fibre Connection (FICON) information

• fwHelp provides Fabric Watch information

• licenseHelp provides license information

• perfHelp provides Performance Monitoring information

• routeHelp provides routing information

• trackChangesHelp provides Track Changes (TC) information

• zoneHelp provides zoning information

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20 Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures

2 Performing basic configuration tasks

This chapter contains procedures for performing basic switch configuration tasks using the Fabric OS CLI.

Connecting to the Command Line Interface

You can connect to the CLI either through a telnet connection or through the serial port.

Connecting with telnet

1. Verify that the switch is connected to the IP network through the RJ-45 Ethernet port.

Switches in the fabric that are not connected through Ethernet can be managed through switches that use IP over Fibre Channel. The embedded port must have an assigned IP address.

2. Open a telnet connection using the IP address of the logical switch to which you want to connect.

If you telnet to the active Control Processor (CP) or log in to the active CP console, you are prompted for the switch number when the platform is set up in dual (or multiple) switch mode. For example, the SAN Director 2/128 does not prompt you if you are using configuration option 1, but does prompt you if you have used configuration options 2–4. See ”Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director

2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director” on page 87 for details about director configuration options.

The Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 (configured with two domains) have two logical switches (sw0 and sw1).

The login prompt is displayed when the telnet connection finds the switch in the network.

3. Enter the account ID (defaults are user or admin) at the login prompt.

4. Enter the password.

The default password is password. If you have not changed the system passwords from the default, you are prompted to change them.

Enter the new system passwords, or press Ctrl-c to skip the password prompts.

5. Verify that the login was successful.

The prompt displays the switch name and user ID to which you are connected.

6. Observe the following considerations for telnet connections:

• Never change the IP address of the switch while two telnet sessions are active; if you do, your next attempt to log in fails. To recover, gain access to the switch by one of these methods:

• Perform a fast boot using Advanced Web Tools. When the switch comes up, the telnet quota is

cleared. (For instructions on performing a fast boot with Advanced Web Tools, see the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x Advanced Web Tools administrator guide.)

• If you have the required privileges, connect through the serial port, log in as root, and use

operating system commands to identify and kill the telnet processes without disrupting the fabric.

• For admin level accounts, Fabric OS limits the number of simultaneous telnet sessions per switch to two. For details on session limits, see ”Configuring the telnet interface” on page 41 and ”Creating

and maintaining user-defined accounts” on page 43.

Connecting through the serial port

1. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the switch and to an RS-232 serial port on

the workstation. If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the

serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.

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2. Open a terminal emulator application (such as HyperTerminal on a PC, or TERM, TIP, or Kermit in a

UNIX® environment), and configure the application as follows:

• In a Windows® environment:

Parameter

Bits per second 9600 Databits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control None

• In a UNIX environment, enter the following string at the prompt:

tip /dev/ttyb -9600

If ttyb is already in use, you can use ttya (enter tip /dev/ttya -9600).

3. Observe the following considerations for serial connections:

• Some procedures require that you connect through the serial port, for example, setting the IP address or setting the boot PROM password.

• If secure mode is enabled, connect through the serial port of the primary FCS switch.

• For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director, you can connect to CP0 or CP1 using either of the two serial ports.

Setting the IP address

Value

You must connect through the serial port to set the IP address (see ”Connecting through the serial port” on page 21). After connecting, issue the ipAddrSet command to set the IP address.

CAUTION: The use of IP address 0.0.0.0 is not supported. Do not use this address.

Fabric OS versions beginning with 2.6.0, 3.1.0, and 4.0.0 support Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR).

Setting the default account passwords

For each logical switch (domain), there are admin and user default access accounts. These accounts designate the following levels of authorization—called roles—for using the system:

• Admin level for administrative use

• User level for non-administrative use, such as monitoring system activity

• SwitchAdmin level for administrative use, except for security, user management, and zoning

Two accounts—factory and root—are reserved for development and manufacturing. You can change their passwords, which is optional, but do not use these accounts under normal circumstances.

Table 2 shows the number of simultaneous login sessions allowed for each role.

Table 2 Maximum number of simultaneous sessions

User name Maximum sessions

admin 2

user 4

For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, SAN Switch 4/32, SAN Director 2/128, and the 4/256 SAN Director (default configuration with one domain), there is one set of default access accounts.

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For the Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 (configured with two domains), each logical switch has its own set of default access accounts. The default account names and passwords are the same for both of the logical switches.

You can also create up to 15 additional accounts per logical switch and designate their roles as either admin, switchAdmin, or user. See the procedures for doing so in ”Creating and maintaining user-defined

accounts” on page 43.

For large enterprises, Fabric OS supports RADIUS services, as described in ”Setting up RADIUS AAA

service” on page 45.

In addition to the account access passwords, each switch can set a boot PROM password. For greater security, HP recommends that you set this password to protect system boot parameters from unauthorized access. See ”Setting the boot PROM password” on page 67.

Each of the default access accounts has an associated password. The first time you connect to a Fabric OS switch, you are prompted to change these default account passwords.

If you do not change the default passwords, you are prompted to do so at each subsequent login until all system passwords have been changed from their default values. Thereafter, use the passwd command to change passwords.

For more background information on passwords, see ”Changing an account password” on page 45.

Changing the default passwords at login

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

The default password for all default accounts is password.

2. At each of the Enter new password prompts, either enter a new password or skip the prompt.

You can skip a prompt by pressing Enter. You can bypass all further prompts by pressing Ctrl-c. Although the root and factory accounts are not meant for general use, change their passwords if

prompted to do so, and save the passwords in case they are needed for recovery purposes. You cannot reuse the default passwords.

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NOTE: Record the passwords exactly as entered and store them in a secure place; recovering

passwords requires significant effort and fabric downtime. The initial login prompt accepts a maximum password length of eight characters. Characters beyond the eighth are ignored. Only the default password is subject to the eight-character limit. Any password set by the user can have a length of 8 to 40 characters.

login: admin Password: Please change your passwords now. Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed. for user - root Changing password for root Enter new password: ***** Password changed. Saving password to stable storage. Password saved to stable storage successfully. Please change your passwords now. for user - factory Changing password for factory Enter new password: ***** Password changed. Saving password to stable storage. Password saved to stable storage successfully. Please change your passwords now. for user - admin Changing password for admin Enter new password: ***** Password changed. Saving password to stable storage. Password saved to stable storage successfully. Please change your passwords now. for user - user Changing password for user Enter new password: ***** Password changed. Saving password to stable storage. Password saved to stable storage successfully. switch:admin>

Setting the date and time

Switches maintain the current date and time in flash memory. Date and time are used for logging events. Switch operation does not depend on the date and time; a switch with an incorrect date and time value still functions properly. Because the date and time are used for logging, set them correctly.

NOTE: If secure mode is not enabled, a change in date or time to one switch is forwarded to the

principal switch and distributed to the fabric. If secure mode is enabled, you can make date or time changes only on the primary FCS switch and then distribute the changes to the fabric.

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Setting the date and time

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the date command using the following syntax:

date “mmddHHMMyy”

where:

• mm is the month; valid values are 01 through 12.

• dd is the date; valid values are 01 through 31.

• HH is the hour; valid values are 00 through 23.

• MM is minutes; valid values are 00 through 59.

• yy is the year; valid values are 00 through 99 (values greater than 69 are interpreted as

1970–1999, and values less than 70 are interpreted as 2000–2069). For example:

switch:admin> date Fri Jan 29 17:01:48 UTC 2000 switch:admin> date "0227123003" Thu Feb 27 12:30:00 UTC 2003 switch:admin>

For details about changing time zones, see the tsTimeZone command in the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide.

Synchronizing local time with an external source

To synchronize the local time of the principal or primary FCS switch to an external NTP server:

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the following command:

tsclockserver “ipadd”

where ipaddr is the IP address of the NTP server, which the switch must be able to access. This operand is optional; by default its value is LOCL, which uses the local clock of the principal or primary switch as the clock server. For example:

switch:admin> tsclockserver LOCL switch:admin> tsclockserver “132.163.135.131” switch:admin> tsclockserver

132.163.135.131 switch:admin>

HP recommends that you synchronize time with an external NTP server, as described on ”Synchronizing

local time with an external source”. If you cannot do so, use the next procedure.

Setting the time zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the tsTimeZone command as follows:

tsTimeZone [houroffset [, minuteoffset]]

•For Pacific Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -8,0.

• For Central Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -6,0.

• For Eastern Standard Time enter tsTimeZone -5,0. The default time zone for switches is Universal Time Conversion (UTC), which is 8 hours ahead of

Pacific Standard Time. Table 3 shows additional time zone conversion values. The parameters do not apply if the time zone of the switch has already been changed from the default

(8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time). See the tsTimeZone command in the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide for

detailed information about the command parameters.

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Repeat the procedure on all switches for which the Time Zone needs to be set. This needs to be done only once; the value is written to nonvolatile memory. For U.S. time zones, use Table 3 to determine the correct parameter for the tsTimeZone command.

Table 3 Conversion from UTC to local time

Local time Difference from UTC for

tstimezone

Atlantic Standard –4, 0

Atlantic Daylight –3, 0

Eastern Standard –5, 0

Eastern Daylight –4, 0

Central Standard –6, 0

Central Daylight –5, 0

Mountain Standard –7, 0

Mountain Daylight –6, 0

Pacific Standard –8, 0

Pacific Daylight –7, 0

Alaskan Standard –9, 0

Alaskan Daylight –8, 0

Hawaiian Standard –10, 0

Maintaining licensed features

Feature licenses might be part of the licensed Power Pack supplied with switch software, or you can purchase licenses separately from your switch vendor, who will provide you with keys to unlock the features. License keys are provided on a per-chassis basis, so for products that support multiple logical switches (domains), a license key applies to all domains within the chassis.

To unlock a licensed feature, you can either use the license key provided in the Power Pack or execute the following procedure to generate a license key at the HP web site:

http://webkey.external.hp.com/welcome.asp

NOTE: For each chassis to be licensed, you need a transaction key and a license ID. The transaction key

is in the Power Pack supplied with the switch software; or, when you purchase a license, your switch vendor gives you a transaction key to be used to obtain a license key. To see a switch license ID, issue the licenseIdShow command.

Unlocking a licensed feature

1. If you already have a license key, go to step 10.

If you do not have a key, launch an Internet browser and visit the HP web site:

http://webkey.external.hp.com/welcome.asp

2. Click products.

3. Click Software Products.

4. In the Related Links panel on the right side of the page, select Software License Keys.

The Software License Keys instruction page appears.

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5. If you want to generate a single license key, select Generate 1 license key.

If you want to generate multiple license keys, select Batch Generation of Licenses. The Software License Key instruction page opens.

6. Enter the requested information in the required fields.

When generating multiple license keys, enter the worldwide names and transaction keys in the table at the bottom of the screen. If you need additional rows in the table, select Add More Rows.

7. Click Next.

A verification screen appears.

8. Verify that the information is correct.

Click Submit if the information displayed is correct. If the information is incorrect, click Previous and change the information.

9. After the information is corrected, click Submit.

An information screen displays the license keys. You also receive an e-mail from the HP licensing company.

10.Activate and verify the license as follows:

a. Connect to the switch and log in as admin. b. Activate the license using the licenseAdd command:

switch:admin> licenseadd “key”

The license key is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly as given. The quotation marks are optional.

For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director, licenses are effective on both CP blades and on all logical switches, but are valid only when the CP blade is inserted into a chassis that has an appropriate license ID stored in the World Wide Name (WWN) card. If a CP is moved from one chassis to another, the license works in the new chassis only if the WWN card is the same in the new chassis. Otherwise, a new license key is generated.

For example, if you swap one CP blade at a time, or replace a single CP blade, the existing CP blade (the active CP blade) propagates the licenses to the new CP blade.

If you move a standby CP from one chassis to another, the active CP propagates its configuration (including license keys).

c. Verify that the license was added by issuing the licenseShow command.

The licensed features currently installed on the switch are listed. If the feature is not listed, reissue the licenseAdd command.

d. Some features may require additional configuration, or you might need to disable and reenable

the switch to make them operational; see the feature documentation for details. For example:

switch:admin> licenseshow SbeSdQdQySyriTeJ: Web license Zoning license Fabric license Remote Switch license Extended Fabric license Fabric Watch license Performance Monitor license Trunking license Security license SbbebdQS9QTscfcB: Ports on Demand license - additional 8 port upgrade SbbebdQS9QTcgfcz: Ports on Demand license - additional 8 port upgrade

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Removing a licensed feature

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the licenseShow command to display the active licenses.

3. Remove the license key using the licenseRemove command:

switch:admin> licenseremove “key”

The license key is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly as given. The quotation marks are optional. After removing a license key, the optionally licensed feature is disabled when the switch is rebooted or when a switch disable or enable is performed.

4. Issue the licenseShow command to verify that the license is disabled. For example:

switch:admin> licenseshow bQebzbRdScRfc0iK: Web license Zoning license SybbzQQ9edTzcc0X: Fabric license switch:admin> licenseremove “bQebzbRdScRfc0iK” removing license key “bQebzbRdScRfc0iK” switch:admin>

After a reboot (or switchDisable and switchEnable):

switch:admin> licenseshow SybbzQQ9edTzcc0X: Fabric license switch:admin>

If there are no license keys, licenseShow displays the message No licenses.

Customizing the switch name

Switches can be identified by IP address, Domain ID, WWN, or by customized switch names that are unique and meaningful.

Version 4.0.0 (and later) switch names can be from 1 to 15 characters long, must begin with a letter, and can contain letters, numbers, or the underscore character. It is not necessary to use quotation marks.

The default names are the following:

• For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32: the name is swd77.

• For the Core Switch 2/64: the name varies depending on the number of logical switches. The two

logical switches have different default names. The name swd77 is used for the logical switch containing the port blades in slots 1 through 4; swd76 is used for the logical switch containing the port blades in slots 7 through 10.

• For the SAN Director 2/128 and the 4/256 SAN Director: the name is swd77.

NOTE: Changing the switch name causes a domain address format Registered State Change

Notification (RSCN) to be issued.

Customizing the switch name

1. For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32: Proceed to the next step.

For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director: Open a telnet window for each logical switch and issue the switchName command.

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2. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

3. For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, and SAN Switch 4/32: Proceed to the next step. For the SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director: If configured for one domain (the default)

proceed to the next step. If configured with two domains, proceed as for the Core Switch 2/64. For the Core Switch 2/64: Choose the logical switch that you want to change. Enter the value that

corresponds to that logical region:

• Enter 0 to configure logical switch 0 (slot 1 through 4).

• Enter 1 to configure logical switch 1 (slot 7 through 10).

4. Issue the switchName command with the following syntax:

switchname “newname”

where newname is the new name for the switch.

5. Record the new switch name for future reference.

6. For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director configured with two

domains: Disconnect from the session and repeat the procedure for the second logical switch. For example:

switch:admin> switchname “switch62” Committing configuration... Done. switch62:admin>

Customizing the chassis name

Beginning with Fabric OS 4.4.0, HP recommends that you customize the chassis name for each switch. Some system logs identify switches by chassis names, so if you assign meaningful chassis names in addition to meaningful switch names, logs are more useful.

Changing the chassis name

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the chassisName command, with the following syntax:

chassisname “newname”

where newname is the new name for the chassis. Chassis names can contain 1 to 15 characters, must begin with a letter, and can consist of letters,

numerals, and the underscore character. The quotation marks are optional.

3. Record the new chassis name for future reference.

Disabling and enabling a switch

By default, the switch is enabled after power is applied and diagnostics and switch initialization routines have finished. You can disable and reenable it as necessary.

Disabling a switch

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the switchDisable command.

All Fibre Channel ports on the switch are taken offline. If the switch was part of a fabric, the fabric reconfigures.

Enabling a switch

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Issue the switchEnable command.

All Fibre Channel ports that pass the Power-on Self Test (POST) are enabled. If the switch has interswitch links (ISLs) to a fabric, it joins the fabric.

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Disabling and enabling a port

All licensed ports are enabled by default. You can disable and reenable them as necessary. Ports that you activate with Ports on Demand must be enabled explicitly, as described in ”Activating Ports on Demand” on page 30.

Disabling a port

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32: Issue the following command:

portdisable portnumber

where portnumber is the port number of the port you want to disable. For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director: Issue the following

command:

portdisable slotnumber/portnumber

where slotnumber and portnumber are the slot and port numbers of the port you want to disable.

NOTE: If the port is connected to another switch, the fabric might reconfigure.

Enabling a port

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. For the 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN Switch, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch

2/32, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, and SAN Switch 4/32: Issue the following command:

portenable portnumber

where portnumber is the port number of the port you want to enable. For the Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director: Issue the following

command:

portenable slotnumber/portnumber

where slotnumber and portnumber are the slot and port numbers of the port you want to enable. (Slots are numbered 1 through 4 and 7 through 10, counting from left to right.)

NOTE: If the port is connected to another switch, the fabric might reconfigure. If the port is connected to

one or more devices, these devices become available to the fabric.

If you change port configurations during a switch failover, the ports might become disabled. To bring the ports online, reissue the portEnable command after the failover is complete.

Activating Ports on Demand

The SAN Switch 4/32 can be purchased with 16, 24, or 32 licensed ports. As your needs increase, you can activate unlicensed ports (up to the maximum of 32 ports) by purchasing and installing the HP Ports on Demand optional, licensed product.

The 4/8 SAN Switch and 4/16 SAN Switch can be purchased with 8 ports and no E_Port, 8 ports with full-fabric access (4/8 SAN Switch), and 16 ports with full-fabric access (4/16 SAN Switch). If you purchase the 4/8 SAN Switch with 8 ports enabled, you can activate unlicensed ports in 4-port increments up to 16 ports by purchasing and installing the HP StorageWorks 4/8 SAN 4-Port Upgrade License. You can also purchase a full-fabric upgrade license if your switch does not support full-fabric access.

Ports on Demand is ready to be unlocked in the switch firmware. Its license key might be part of the licensed software supplied with your switch, or you can purchase the license key separately from your

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Contents

Intended audience

Related documentation

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary

Document conventions and symbols

Table 1 Document conventions

HP technical support

HP-authorized reseller

Helpful web sites

1 Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures

About procedural differences

Scope and references

About the CLI

Help information

Displaying command help

Additional help topics

2 Performing basic configuration tasks

Connecting to the Command Line Interface

Setting the IP address

Setting the default account passwords

Table 2 Maximum number of simultaneous sessions

Setting the date and time

Table 3 Conversion from UTC to local time

Maintaining licensed features

Customizing the switch name

Customizing the chassis name

Disabling and enabling a switch

Disabling and enabling a port

Activating Ports on Demand