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Managing the Brocade 300
You can use the management functions built into the Brocade 300 to monitor the fabric topology, port
status, physical status, and other information to help you analyze switch performance and to accelerate
system debugging.
The Brocade 300 automatically performs power-on-self-test (POST) each time it is turned on. Any
errors are recorded in the error log. For more information about POST, see
on page 28.
For information about upgrading the version of Fabric OS installed on your switch, refer to the Fabric
OS Administrator’s Guide.
You can manage the Brocade 300 using any of the management options listed in the following table.
Management Options for the Brocade 300 Switch
TABLE 2
Management Tool
Out-of-band Support
In-band Support
Command line interface (CLI)
Up to two admin sessions and four user sessions
simultaneously. For more information, refer to the Fabric
OS Administrator’s Guide and the Fabric OS Command
Reference Manual .
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over Fibre Channel
Brocade Web Tools
For information, refer to the Web Tools Administrator’s
Guide .
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over Fibre Channel
Standard SNMP applications
For information, refer to the MIB Reference Manual .
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over Fibre Channel
Brocade Fabric Manager (option to purchase)
For information, refer to the Fabric Manager
Administrator’s Guide .
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over Fibre Channel
Management Server
For information, refer to the Fabric OS Administrator’s
Guide and the Fabric OS Command Reference
Manual .
Ethernet or serial
connection
Native in-band interface(over
HBA only)
EFCM (option to purchase)
For information, refer to the EFCM documentation set.
Ethernet or serial
connection
IP over Fibre Channel
NOTE
To achieve in-band support for IP over Fibre Channel, the software must be run on both the HBA and
the switch, and it must be supported by both the HBA and HBA driver
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