Document Outline

• Contents
• About this guide
  • Intended audience
  • Related documentation
  • Document conventions and symbols
    • Table 1 Document conventions
  • HP technical support
    • HP Storage web site
    • HP authorized reseller
• Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures
  • Changes to this guide for OS v5.0.0
    • Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem
      • Table 2 Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem
  • About procedural differences
  • Scope and references
  • About the CLI
  • Help information
    • Displaying command help
      • To display help information:
    • Displaying additional help topics
• Performing basic configuration tasks
  • Connecting to the CLI
    • To connect through the serial port:
  • Setting the IP address
  • Setting the default account passwords
  • 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
  • Making basic connections
    • Connecting to devices
    • Connecting to other switches
      • Table 4 Standard ISL modes
  • Working with domain IDs
    • To set the domain ID:
  • Linking through a gateway
    • To configure a link through a gateway:
  • Checking status
  • Tracking and controlling switch changes
• Configuring standard security features
  • Ensuring network security
  • Configuring the telnet interface
    • To disable telnet:
    • To enable telnet:
  • Blocking listeners
    • Table 5 Blocked listener applications
  • Accessing switches and fabrics
    • Table 6 Access details
  • Creating and maintaining user-defined accounts
    • To display account information
    • To create a user-defined account
    • To delete a user-defined account
    • To change account parameters
    • To recover user-defined accounts
  • Changing an account password
    • To change the password for the current login account:
    • To change the password for a different account:
  • Setting up RADIUS AAA service
    • Configuring the RADIUS server
      • Windows 2000
        • To add a RADIUS client:
        • To create user and admin remote access policies:
      • Linux
    • Configuring the switch
      • To display the current RADIUS configuration
      • To add a RADIUS server to the switch configuration:
      • To enable or disable RADIUS service:
      • To delete a RADIUS server from the configuration:
      • To change a RADIUS server configuration:
      • To change the order in which RADIUS servers are contacted for service:
    • Enabling and disabling local authentication
  • Configuring for the SSL protocol
    • Browser and Javatm support
    • Summary of SSL procedures
      • Table 7 SSL certificate files
    • Choosing a CA
      • Table 8 Recommended CAs
    • Generating a public/private key
    • Generating and storing a CSR
    • Obtaining certificates
    • Installing a switch certificate
    • Activating a switch certificate
    • Configuring the browser
      • To check and install root certificates on Internet Explorer:
      • To check and install root certificates on Mozilla:
    • Installing a root certificate to the Java Plug-in
    • Displaying and deleting certificates
      • Table 9 Commands for displaying and deleting SSL certificates
    • Troubleshooting certificates
      • Table 10 SSL messages and actions
  • Configuring for SNMP
    • Setting the security level
    • Using the snmpconfig command
    • Using legacy commands for SNMPv1
  • Configuring secure file copy
  • Setting the boot PROM password
    • With a recovery string
    • Without a recovery string
  • Recovering forgotten passwords
• Maintaining configurations and firmware
  • Maintaining configurations
    • Displaying configuration settings
    • Backing up a configuration
    • Restoring a configuration
    • Downloading configurations across a fabric
    • Editing configuration files
    • Printing hard copies of switch information
  • Maintaining firmware
    • Obtaining and unzipping firmware
    • Checking connected switches
      • Table 11 Recommended firmware
    • About the download process
      • Effects of firmware changes on accounts and passwords
        • Table 12 Effect of firmware on accounts and passwords
      • Considerations for downgrading firmware
    • Upgrading HP StorageWorks SAN switches
      • Summary of the upgrade process
      • SAN Switch upgrade procedure
    • Upgrading the Core Switch 2/64 and the SAN Director 2/128
      • Summary of the upgrade process
      • Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 upgrade procedure
  • Troubleshooting firmware downloads
• Configuring the Core Switch 2/64 and the SAN Director 2/128
  • Identifying ports
    • By slot and port number
    • By port area ID
  • Basic card management
    • Powering port cards on and off
      • To power off a port card:
      • To provide power to a port card:
    • Disabling and enabling cards
      • To disable a card:
      • To enable a card:
    • Conserving power
  • Setting chassis configurations
    • Table 13 Supported options
    • Obtaining slot information
      • To display the status of all slots in the chassis:
        • Table 14 Header fields
    • Configuring a new SAN Director 2/128 with two domains
    • Converting an installed SAN Director 2/128 to support two domains
    • Combining Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 cards in one chassis
      • To combine Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128 cards in one chassis:
  • Setting the card beacon mode
    • To set the card beacon mode on:
• Routing traffic
  • About routing policies
  • Specifying the routing policy
  • Assigning a static route
  • Specifying frame order delivery
    • To force in-order frame delivery across topology changes:
    • To restore out-of-order frame delivery across topology changes:
  • Using dynamic load sharing
    • To check and set DLS:
  • Viewing routing path information
  • Viewing routing information along a path
• Administering extended fabrics
  • About extended link buffer allocation
    • SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN Director 2/128
    • SAN Switch 4/32
  • Fabric considerations
  • Choosing an extended ISL mode
    • Table 15 Extended ISL modes
    • Table 16 SAN Switch 2/8V, 2/16V, 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN Director 2/128
    • Table 17 SAN Switch 4/32
  • Configuring an extended ISL
    • To configure an extended ISL:
  • Trunking over distance
• Administering ISL trunking
  • Standard trunking criteria
  • Fabric considerations
  • Initializing trunking on ports
  • Monitoring traffic
  • Enabling and disabling ISL trunking
  • Setting port speeds
  • Displaying trunking information
  • Trunking over extended fabrics
  • Troubleshooting trunking problems
    • Listing link characteristics
    • Recognizing buffer underallocation
• Administering advanced zoning
  • Zoning terminology
  • Zoning concepts
    • Zone types
      • Table 18 Types of zoning
      • Table 19 Approaches to fabric-based zoning
    • Zone objects
    • Zone aliases
    • Zone configurations
    • Zoning enforcement
      • Software-enforced zoning
      • Hardware-enforced zoning
        • Table 20 Enforcing hardware zoning
        • Figure 1 Hardware-enforced non-overlapping zones
        • Figure 2 Hardware-enforced overlapping zones
        • Figure 3 Zoning with hardware assist (mixed port and WWN zones)
        • Figure 4 Overlapping hardware-enforced zoning with soft porting
    • Rules for configuring zones
  • Creating and managing zone aliases
    • To create an alias:
    • To add members to an alias:
    • To remove members from an alias:
    • To delete an alias:
    • To view an alias in the defined configuration:
  • Creating and maintaining zones
    • To create a zone:
    • To add devices (members) to a zone:
    • To remove devices (members) from a zone:
    • To delete a zone:
    • To view a zone in the defined configuration:
  • Creating and modifying zoning configurations
    • To create a zoning configuration:
    • To add zones (members) to a zoning configuration:
    • To remove zones (members) from a zone configuration:
    • To delete a zone configuration:
    • To clear changes to a configuration:
    • To view all zone configuration information:
    • To view selected zone configuration information:
    • To view a configuration in the effective zone database:
  • Managing zoning configurations in a fabric
    • Table 21 Zoning database limitations
    • Adding a new switch or fabric
    • Splitting a fabric
  • Using zoning to administer security
  • Resolving zone conflicts
    • Table 22 Considerations for zoning architecture
• Administering advanced performance monitoring
  • Table 23 Advanced performance monitoring commands
  • Displaying and clearing the CRC error count
  • Monitoring end-to-end performance
    • Adding end-to-end monitors
      • Figure 5 Setting end-to-end monitors on a port
      • Figure 6 Proper placement of end-to-end performance monitors
    • Setting a mask for end-to-end monitors
      • Figure 7 Mask positions for end-to-end monitors
    • Deleting end-to-end monitors
  • Monitoring filter-based performance
    • Adding standard filter-based monitors
      • Table 24 Commands to add filter-based monitors
    • Adding custom filter-based monitors
      • Table 25 Predefined values at offset 0
    • Deleting filter-based monitors
      • To delete a filter-based monitor:
  • Monitoring ISL performance
  • Monitoring trunks
  • Displaying monitor counters
  • Clearing monitor counters
    • To clear statistics counters for an ISL monitor:
  • Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  • Collecting performance data
• Configuring the distributed management server
  • Enabling and disabling the platform services
    • To enable platform services:
    • To disable platform services:
  • Controlling access
    • To display the management server ACL:
    • To add a member to the ACL:
    • To delete a member from the ACL:
  • Configuring the server database
    • To view the contents of the management server database:
    • To clear the management server database:
  • Controlling topology discovery
    • To display topology discovery status:
    • To enable topology discovery:
    • To disable topology discovery:
• Working with diagnostic features
  • Viewing power-on self test
  • Viewing switch status
    • To view the overall status of the switch:
    • To display switch information:
    • To display the uptime for a switch:
  • Viewing port information
    • To view the status of a port:
    • To display the port statistics:
    • To display a summary of port errors for a switch:
      • Table 26 Error summary description
  • Viewing equipment status
    • To display the status of the fans:
    • To display the status of a power supply:
    • To display temperature status:
  • Viewing the system message log
    • To display the system message log, with no page breaks:
    • To display the system message log, with page breaks:
    • To clear the system message log:
  • Viewing the port log
    • To view the port log:
      • Table 27 Commands for port log management
  • Configuring for syslogd
    • Configuring the Host
      • Table 28 Fabric OS to UNIX message severities
    • Configuring the switch
      • To specify syslogd hosts:
      • To set the facility level:
      • To remove a syslogd host from the list:
  • Viewing and saving diagnostic information
  • Setting up automatic trace dump transfers
    • To specify a remote server:
    • To enable the automatic transfer of trace dumps:
    • To set up periodic checking of the remote server:
    • To save a comprehensive set of diagnostic files to the server:
• Troubleshooting
  • Most common problem areas
    • Table 29 Common troubleshooting problems and tools
  • Gathering information for technical support
  • Analyzing connection problems
    • To check the Simple Name Server (SNS):
    • To check for zoning problems:
  • Restoring a segmented fabric
    • To reconcile fabric parameters individually:
    • To download a correct configuration:
    • To reconcile a domain ID conflict:
  • Correcting zoning setup issues
    • Table 30 Types of zone discrepancies
    • Table 31 Commands for debugging zoning
    • To correct a fabric merge problem quickly:
    • To verify a fabric merge problem:
    • To edit zone configuration members:
    • To reorder the zone member list:
  • Recognizing MQ-WRITE errors
  • Correcting I2C bus errors
    • To check fan components:
    • To check the switch temperature:
    • To check the power supply:
    • To check the temperature, fan, and power supply:
  • Correcting device login issues
  • Identifying media-related issues
    • Table 32 Component test descriptions
    • To test a port’s external transmit and receive path:
    • To test a switch’s internal components:
    • To test components to and from the HBA:
      • Table 33 Switch component tests
  • Correcting link failures
    • To determine if the negotiation was successfully completed:
    • To check for a link initialization failure (loop):
    • To check for a point-to-point initialization failure:
    • To correct a port that has come up in the wrong mode:
      • Table 34 SwitchShow output and suggested action
  • Correcting marginal links
  • Inaccurate information in the system message log
  • Recognizing the port initialization and FCP auto discovery process
• Configuring the PID format
  • About PIDs and PID binding
  • Summary of PID formats
  • Impact of changing the fabric PID format
    • Host reboots
    • Static PID mapping errors
    • Changes to configuration data
      • Table 35 Effects of PID format changes on configurations
  • Selecting a PID format
    • Table 36 PID format recommendations for adding new switches
  • Evaluating the fabric
  • Planning the update procedure
    • Online update
    • Offline update
    • Hybrid update
  • Changing to core PID format
    • Table 37 PID format and management interface names
  • Changing to extended edge PID format
    • Table 38 Earliest Fabric OS versions for extended edge PID format
    • Figure 8 Configure command on a switch running Fabric OS 3.1.2
    • Figure 9 Configure command on a switch running Fabric OS 4.2.0 and later
  • Performing PID format changes
    • Basic procedure
    • HP-UX procedure
    • AIX procedure
  • Swapping port area IDs
    • Swap area IDs for a pair of switch ports as follows:
• Configuring interoperability mode
  • Vendor switch requirements
  • HP StorageWorks switch requirements
  • Supported HP StorageWorks features
  • Unsupported HP StorageWorks features
  • Configuration recommendations
  • Configuration restrictions
    • Zoning restrictions
    • Zone name restrictions
  • Enabling and disabling interoperability mode
    • To enable interoperability mode:
    • To disable interoperability mode:
• Using Remote Switch
  • To set the access and reconfigure these parameters:
• Understanding legacy password behavior
  • Password management information
    • Table 39 Account and password characteristics matrix
  • Password prompting behaviors
    • Table 40 Password prompting matrix
  • Password migration during firmware changes
    • Table 41 Password migration behavior during firmware upgrade and downgrade
  • Password recovery options
    • Table 42 Password recovery options
• Zone merging scenarios
  • Table 43 Zone merging scenarios
• Upgrading firmware in single mode
  • To upgrade HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, and SAN Switch 4/32 in single mode:
  • To upgrade a single Core Switch 2/64 or SAN Director 2/128 CP card:
  • To upgrade to a single CP card:
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