Document Outline

• Contents
• About This Document
  • Audience
  • Supported hardware and software
  • Brocade ICX 6650 slot and port numbering
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Command syntax conventions
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Notice to the reader
  • Related publications
  • Additional information
    • Brocade resources
    • Other industry resources
  • Getting technical help
  • Document feedback
• Management Applications
  • Management port overview
    • How the management port works
    • CLI Commands for use with the management port
  • Logging on through the CLI
    • Online help
    • Command completion
    • Scroll control
    • Line editing commands
  • Using slot number, and port number with CLI commands
    • CLI nomenclature on Brocade ICX 6650 models
    • Searching and filtering output from CLI commands
    • Using special characters in regular expressions
    • Creating an alias for a CLI command
• Basic Software Features
  • Basic system parameter configuration
    • Entering system administration information
    • SNMP parameter configuration
    • Displaying virtual routing interface statistics
    • Disabling Syslog messages and traps for CLI access
    • Cancelling an outbound Telnet session
  • Specifying an SNTP server
  • Configuring the device as an SNTP server
    • Displaying SNTP server information
    • Enabling broadcast mode for an SNTP client
    • Setting the system clock
    • Limiting broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traffic
    • CLI banner configuration
    • Local MAC address for Layer 2 management traffic
  • Basic port parameter configuration
    • Assigning a port name
    • Port speed and duplex mode modification
    • Downgrading the Brocade ICX 6650 front panel ports from 10 GbE to 1 GbE port speed
    • Enabling auto-negotiation maximum port speed advertisement and down-shift
    • Modifying port duplex mode
    • Disabling or re-enabling a port
    • Flow control configuration
    • Symmetric flow control on Brocade ICX 6650 devices
    • Interpacket Gap (IPG) on a Brocade ICX 6650 switch
    • Changing the Gbps fiber negotiation mode
    • Port priority (QoS) modification
    • Port flap dampening configuration
    • Port loop detection
• Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
  • OAM Overview
  • Software versions installed and running on a device
    • Determining the flash image version running on the device
    • Displaying the boot image version running on the device
    • Displaying the image versions installed in flash memory
    • Flash image verification
  • Image file types
  • Software upgrades
  • Viewing the contents of flash files
  • Using SNMP to upgrade software
  • Software reboot
    • Software boot configuration notes
  • Displaying the boot preference
  • Loading and saving configuration files
    • Replacing the startup configuration with the running configuration
    • Replacing the running configuration with the startup configuration
    • Logging changes to the startup-config file
    • Copying a configuration file to or from a TFTP server
    • Dynamic configuration loading
    • Maximum file sizes for startup-config file and running-config
  • Loading and saving configuration files with IPv6
    • Using the IPv6 copy command
    • Copying a file from an IPv6 TFTP server
    • IPv6 ncopy command
    • IPv6 TFTP server file upload
    • Using SNMP to save and load configuration information
    • Erasing image and configuration files
  • System reload scheduling
    • Reloading at a specific time
    • Reloading after a specific amount of time
    • Displaying the amount of time remaining before a scheduled reload
    • Canceling a scheduled reload
  • Diagnostic error codes and remedies for TFTP transfers
  • Network connectivity testing
    • Pinging an IPv4 address
    • Tracing an IPv4 route
• Ports on Demand Licensing
  • Ports on Demand Overview
  • Ports on Demand terminology
  • PoD licensing rules
  • PoD licensing configuration tasks
    • Obtaining a PoD license
  • Viewing PoD licensing information from the Brocade software portal
  • Transferring a PoD license
  • Syslog message information
  • Ports on Demand Licensing
    • Front panel PoD
    • Rear panel Flexible Ports on Demand
    • PoD licenses
    • Enabling ports on the front panel
    • Deleting a ICX6650-10G-LIC-POD license
    • Enabling ports on the rear panel
    • Disabling the FPoD ports on the rear panel
    • Deleting a 10 GbE or 40 GbE license
  • Viewing information about PoD licenses
    • Viewing the LID and the software packages installed in the device
    • Displaying general license information for PoD ports
    • Displaying the license configuration for PoD ports for the Brocade ICX 6650
    • Configuration considerations when configuring PoD for Brocade ICX 6650 devices
• IPv6 Configuration on Brocade ICX 6650 Switch
  • Full Layer 3 IPv6 feature support
  • IPv6 addressing overview
    • IPv6 address types
    • IPv6 stateless auto-configuration
  • IPv6 CLI command support
  • IPv6 host address on a Layer 2 switch
    • Configuring a global or site-local IPv6 address with a manually configured interface ID
    • Configuring a link-local IPv6 address as a system-wide address for a switch
  • Configuring the management port for an IPv6 automatic address configuration
  • Configuring basic IPv6 connectivity on a Layer 3 switch
    • Enabling IPv6 routing
    • IPv6 configuration on each router interface
    • Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks
  • IPv6 management on Brocade ICX 6650 devices (IPv6 host support)
    • Configuring IPv6 management ACLs
    • Restricting SNMP access to an IPv6 node
    • Specifying an IPv6 SNMP trap receiver
    • Configuring SNMP V3 over IPv6
    • Configuring SNTP over IPv6
    • Secure Shell, SCP, and IPv6
    • IPv6 Telnet
    • IPv6 traceroute
    • Configuring name-to-IPv6 address resolution using IPv6 DNS resolver
    • Defining an IPv6 DNS entry
    • Pinging an IPv6 address
    • Configuring an IPv6 Syslog server
    • Viewing IPv6 SNMP server addresses
    • Disabling router advertisement and solicitation messages
    • Disabling IPv6 on a Layer 2 switch
  • Static IPv6 route configuration
  • IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
    • IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel configuration notes
    • Configuring a manual IPv6 tunnel
    • Clearing IPv6 tunnel statistics
    • Displaying IPv6 tunnel information
  • ECMP load sharing for IPv6
    • Disabling or re-enabling ECMP load sharing for IPv6
    • Changing the maximum load sharing paths for IPv6
    • Enabling support for network-based ECMP load sharing for IPv6
    • Displaying ECMP load-sharing information for IPv6
  • IPv6 ICMP feature configuration
    • Configuring ICMP rate limiting
    • Enabling IPv6 ICMP redirect messages
  • IPv6 neighbor discovery configuration
    • IPv6 neighbor discovery configuration notes
    • Neighbor solicitation and advertisement messages
    • Router advertisement and solicitation messages
    • Neighbor redirect messages
    • Setting neighbor solicitation parameters for duplicate address detection
    • Setting IPv6 router advertisement parameters
    • Prefixes advertised in IPv6 router advertisement messages
    • Setting flags in IPv6 router advertisement messages
    • Enabling and disabling IPv6 router advertisements
    • Configuring reachable time for remote IPv6 nodes
  • IPv6 MTU
    • Configuration notes and feature limitations for IPv6 MTU
    • Changing the IPv6 MTU
  • Static neighbor entries configuration
  • Limiting the number of hops an IPv6 packet can traverse
  • IPv6 source routing security enhancements
  • Clearing global IPv6 information
    • Clearing the IPv6 cache
    • Clearing IPv6 neighbor information
    • Clearing IPv6 routes from the IPv6 route table
    • Clearing IPv6 traffic statistics
  • Displaying global IPv6 information
    • Displaying IPv6 cache information
    • Displaying IPv6 interface information
    • Displaying IPv6 neighbor information
    • Displaying the IPv6 route table
    • Displaying local IPv6 routers
    • Displaying IPv6 TCP information
    • Displaying IPv6 traffic statistics
• SNMP Access
  • SNMP overview
  • SNMP community strings
    • Encryption of SNMP community strings
    • Adding an SNMP community string
    • Displaying the SNMP community strings
  • User-based security model
    • Configuring your NMS
    • Configuring SNMP version 3 on Brocade ICX 6650 devices
    • Defining the engine id
    • Defining an SNMP group
    • Defining an SNMP user account
  • Defining SNMP views
  • SNMP version 3 traps
    • Defining an SNMP group and specifying which view is notified of traps
    • Defining the UDP port for SNMP v3 traps
    • Trap MIB changes
    • Specifying an IPv6 host as an SNMP trap receiver
    • SNMP v3 over IPv6
    • Specifying an IPv6 host as an SNMP trap receiver
    • Viewing IPv6 SNMP server addresses
  • Displaying SNMP Information
    • Displaying the Engine ID
    • Displaying SNMP groups
    • Displaying user information
    • Interpreting varbinds in report packets
  • SNMP v3 configuration examples
    • Simple SNMP v3 configuration
    • More detailed SNMP v3 configuration
• Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets
  • FDP Overview
    • FDP configuration
    • Displaying FDP information
    • Clearing FDP and CDP information
  • CDP packets
    • Enabling interception of CDP packets globally
    • Enabling interception of CDP packets on an interface
    • Displaying CDP information
    • Clearing CDP information
• LLDP and LLDP-MED
  • LLDP terms used in this chapter
  • LLDP overview
    • Benefits of LLDP
  • LLDP-MED overview
    • Benefits of LLDP-MED
    • LLDP-MED class
  • General LLDP operating principles
    • LLDP operating modes
    • LLDP packets
    • TLV support
  • MIB support
  • Syslog messages
  • LLDP configuration
    • LLDP configuration notes and considerations
    • Enabling and disabling LLDP
    • Enabling support for tagged LLDP packets
    • Changing a port LLDP operating mode
    • Maximum number of LLDP neighbors
    • Enabling LLDP SNMP notifications and Syslog messages
    • Changing the minimum time between LLDP transmissions
    • Changing the interval between regular LLDP transmissions
    • Changing the holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL
    • Changing the minimum time between port reinitializations
    • LLDP TLVs advertised by the Brocade device
  • LLDP-MED configuration
    • Enabling LLDP-MED
    • Enabling SNMP notifications and Syslog messages for LLDP-MED topology changes
    • Changing the fast start repeat count
    • Defining a location id
    • Defining an LLDP-MED network policy
  • LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device
    • Displaying LLDP statistics and configuration settings
    • LLDP configuration summary
    • Displaying LLDP statistics
    • Displaying LLDP neighbors
    • Displaying LLDP neighbors detail
    • Displaying LLDP configuration details
  • Resetting LLDP statistics
  • Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information
• Hardware Component Monitoring
  • Digital optical monitoring
    • Digital optical monitoring configuration limitations
    • Enabling digital optical monitoring
    • Setting the alarm interval
    • Displaying information about installed media
    • Viewing optical monitoring information
    • Syslog messages for optical transceivers
• Syslog
  • About Syslog messages
  • Displaying Syslog messages
    • Enabling real-time display of Syslog messages
    • Enabling real-time display for a Telnet or SSH session
    • Displaying real-time Syslog messages
  • Syslog service configuration
    • Displaying the Syslog configuration
    • Disabling or re-enabling Syslog
    • Specifying a Syslog server
    • Specifying an additional Syslog server
    • Disabling logging of a message level
    • Changing the number of entries the local buffer can hold
    • Changing the log facility
    • Displaying interface names in Syslog messages
    • Displaying TCP or UDP port numbers in Syslog messages
    • Retaining Syslog messages after a soft reboot
    • Clearing the Syslog messages from the local buffer
• Network Monitoring
  • Basic system management
    • Viewing system information
    • Viewing configuration information
    • Viewing port statistics
    • Viewing STP statistics
    • Clearing statistics
    • Viewing egress queue counters
  • RMON support
    • Maximum number of entries allowed in the RMON control table
    • Statistics (RMON group 1)
    • History (RMON group 2)
    • Alarm (RMON group 3)
    • Event (RMON group 9)
  • sFlow
    • sFlow version 5
    • sFlow support for IPv6 packets
    • sFlow configuration considerations
    • Configuring and enabling sFlow
    • Enabling sFlow forwarding
    • sFlow version 5 feature configuration
    • Displaying sFlow information
  • Utilization list for an uplink port
    • Utilization list for an uplink port command syntax
    • Displaying utilization percentages for an uplink
  • NIAP-CCEVS certified Brocade equipment and Ironware releases
  • Local user password changes
• Index