Document Outline

• Contents (High Level)
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• About This Document
  • How this document is organized
  • Supported hardware and software
  • What’s new in this document
  • Document conventions
  • Notice to the reader
  • Additional information
  • Getting technical help
  • Document feedback
• Understanding Fibre Channel Services
  • Fibre Channel services overview
  • Management server
  • Platform services
    • Platform services and Virtual Fabrics
    • Enabling platform services
    • Disabling platform services
  • Management server database
    • Displaying the management server ACL
    • Adding a member to the ACL
    • Deleting a member from the ACL
    • Viewing the contents of the management server database
    • Clearing the management server database
  • Topology discovery
    • Displaying topology discovery status
    • Enabling topology discovery
    • Disabling topology discovery
  • Device login
    • Principal switch
    • E_Port login process
    • Fabric login process
    • Port login process
    • RSCNs
    • Duplicate Port World Wide Name
      • Device recovery
  • High availability of daemon processes
• Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
  • Fabric OS overview
  • Fabric OS command line interface
    • Notes
    • Console sessions using the serial port
      • Connecting to Fabric OS through the serial port
    • Telnet or SSH sessions
      • Rules for Telnet connections
      • Connecting to Fabric OS using Telnet
    • Getting help on a command
    • Viewing a history of command line entries
  • Password modification
    • Default account passwords
      • Changing the default account passwords at login
  • The switch Ethernet interface
    • Brocade Backbones
    • Brocade switches
    • Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface
    • Displaying the network interface settings
    • Static Ethernet addresses
      • Setting the static addresses for the Ethernet network interface
      • Setting the static addresses for the chassis management IP interface
    • DHCP activation
      • Enabling DHCP for IPv4
      • Disabling DHCP for IPv4
    • IPv6 autoconfiguration
      • Setting IPv6 autoconfiguration
  • Date and time settings
    • Setting the date and time
    • Time zone settings
      • Setting the time zone
      • Setting the time zone interactively
    • Network time protocol
      • Synchronizing the local time with an external source
  • Domain IDs
    • Domain ID issues
    • Displaying the domain IDs
    • Setting the domain ID
  • Switch names
    • Restrictions
    • Customizing the switch name
  • Chassis names
    • Customizing chassis names
  • Fabric name
    • Configuring the fabric name
    • High availability considerations for fabric names
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for fabric names
    • Config file upload and download considerations for fabric names
  • Switch activation and deactivation
    • Disabling a switch
    • Enabling a switch
  • Switch and Backbone shutdown
    • Powering off a Brocade switch
    • Powering off a Brocade Backbone
  • Basic connections
    • Device connection
    • Switch connection
• Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks
  • Port Identifiers (PIDs) and PID binding overview
    • Core PID addressing mode
    • Fixed addressing mode
    • 10-bit addressing mode
    • 256-area addressing mode
    • WWN-based PID assignment
      • Virtual Fabrics considerations for WWN-based PID assignment
      • NPIV
      • Enabling automatic PID assignment
      • Assigning a static PID
      • Clearing PID binding
      • Showing PID assignments
  • Ports
    • Port Types
    • Backbone port blades
    • Configuring two Ethernet ports on one CP8 blade
      • Upgrade and Downgrade considerations
      • Supported devices
      • Setting up the second Ethernet port on a CP8 blade
    • Setting port names
    • Port identification by slot and port number
    • Port identification by port area ID
    • Port identification by index
    • Configuring a device-switch connection
    • Swapping port area IDs
    • Port activation and deactivation
      • Enabling a port
      • Disabling a port
    • Port decommissioning
    • Setting port modes
    • Setting port speeds
    • Setting all ports on a switch to the same speed
    • Setting port speed for a port octet
  • Blade terminology and compatibility
    • CP blades
    • Core blades
    • Port and application blade compatibility
    • FX8-24 compatibility notes
  • Enabling and disabling blades
    • Enabling blades
      • FC8-48, FC8-48E, FC8-64, and FC16-48 port blade enabling exceptions
    • Disabling blades
  • Blade swapping
    • How blades are swapped
    • Swapping blades
  • Enabling and disabling switches
  • Power management
    • Powering off a port blade
    • Powering on a port blade
  • Equipment status
    • Checking switch operation
    • Verifying High Availability features (Backbones only)
    • Verifying fabric connectivity
    • Verifying device connectivity
  • Track and control switch changes
    • Enabling the track changes feature
    • Displaying the status of the track changes feature
    • Viewing the switch status policy threshold values
    • Setting the switch status policy threshold values
  • Audit log configuration
    • Verifying host syslog prior to configuring the audit log
    • Configuring an audit log for specific event classes
  • Duplicate PWWN handling during device login
    • Setting the behavior for handling duplicate PWWNs
• Routing Traffic
  • Routing overview
    • Paths and route selection
    • FSPF
    • Fibre Channel NAT
  • Inter-switch links
    • Buffer credits
    • Congestions versus over-subscription
    • Virtual channels
  • Gateway links
    • Configuring a link through a gateway
  • Routing policies
    • Displaying the current routing policy
    • Port-based routing
    • Exchange-based routing
    • Device-based routing
    • AP route policies
      • Routing in Virtual Fabrics
      • Setting the routing policy
      • Setting up the AP route policy
  • Route selection
    • Dynamic Load Sharing
      • Setting DLS
  • Frame order delivery
    • Forcing in-order frame delivery across topology changes
    • Restoring out-of-order frame delivery across topology changes
    • Using Frame Viewer to understand why frames are dropped
      • Notes
      • Filtering Results by Back-End Port in Frame Viewer
  • Lossless Dynamic Load Sharing on ports
    • Lossless core
      • ICL limitations
      • Traffic flow limitations
    • Configuring Lossless Dynamic Load Sharing
    • Lossless Dynamic Load Sharing in Virtual Fabrics
      • How DLS affects other logical switches in the fabric
  • Enabling forward error correction (FEC)
    • Limitations
      • Enabling forward error correction
      • Disabling forward error correction
      • Enabling and Disabling FEC for long distance ports
      • Viewing current FEC settings
  • Frame Redirection
    • Creating a frame redirect zone
    • Deleting a frame redirect zone
    • Viewing frame redirect zones
• Managing User Accounts
  • User accounts overview
    • Role-Based Access Control
      • Admin Domain considerations
      • Role permissions
    • The management channel
    • Managing user-defined roles
      • Creating a user-defined role
      • Assigning a user-defined role to a user
  • Local database user accounts
    • Default accounts
      • Displaying account information
      • Creating an account
      • Deleting an account
      • Changing account parameters
    • Local account passwords
      • Changing the password for the current login account
      • Changing the password for a different account
  • Local user account database distribution
    • Distributing the local user database
    • Accepting distributed user databases on the local switch
    • Rejecting distributed user databases on the local switch
  • Password policies
    • Password strength policy
    • Password history policy
    • Password expiration policy
    • Account lockout policy
      • Enabling the admin lockout policy
      • Unlocking an account
      • Disabling the admin lockout policy
      • Denial of service implications
  • The boot PROM password
    • Setting the boot PROM password for a switch with a recovery string
    • Setting the boot PROM password for a Backbone with a recovery string
    • Setting the boot PROM password for a switch without a recovery string
    • Setting the boot PROM password for a Backbone without a recovery string
  • Remote authentication
    • Remote Authentication Configuration
      • Client/server model
      • Authentication server data
      • Switch configuration
      • Supported LDAP options
      • Command options
    • Setting the switch authentication mode
    • Fabric OS user accounts
    • Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
      • Windows 2000 IAS
      • RADIUS configuration with Admin Domains or Virtual Fabrics
    • Setting up a RADIUS server
      • Configuring RADIUS server support with Linux
      • Configuring RADIUS server support with Windows 2000
      • RSA RADIUS server
    • LDAP configuration and Microsoft Active Directory
      • Configuring Microsoft Active Directory LDAP service
      • Creating a user
      • Creating a group
      • Assigning the group (role) to the user
      • Adding an Admin Domain or Virtual Fabric list
      • Adding attributes to the Active Directory schema
    • LDAP configuration and OpenLDAP
      • OpenLDAP server configuration overview
      • Enabling group membership
      • Adding entries to the directory
      • Assigning a user to a group
      • Assigning the LDAP role to a switch role
      • Modifying an entry
      • Adding an Admin Domain or Virtual Fabric list
    • TACACS+ service
      • TACACS+ configuration overview
      • Configuring the TACACS+ server on LINUX
      • The tac_plus.cfg file
      • Configuring a Windows TACACS+ server
    • Remote authentication configuration on the switch
      • Adding an authentication server to the switch configuration
      • Enabling and disabling remote authentication
      • Deleting an authentication server from the configuration
      • Changing an authentication server configuration
      • Changing the order in which authentication servers are contacted for service
      • Displaying the current authentication configuration
    • Configuring local authentication as backup
• Configuring Protocols
  • Security protocols
  • Secure Copy
    • Setting up SCP for configuration uploads and downloads
  • Secure Shell protocol
    • SSH public key authentication
      • Allowed-user
      • Configuring incoming SSH authentication
      • Configuring outgoing SSH authentication
      • Deleting public keys on the switch
      • Deleting private keys on the switch
  • Secure Sockets Layer protocol
    • Browser and Java support
    • SSL configuration overview
      • Certificate authorities
      • Generating a public-private key pair
      • Generating and storing a Certificate Signing Request
      • Obtaining certificates
      • Installing a switch certificate
    • The browser
      • Checking and installing root certificates on Internet Explorer
      • Checking and installing root certificates on Mozilla Firefox
    • Root certificates for the Java plugin
      • Installing a root certificate to the Java plugin
  • Simple Network Management Protocol
    • SNMP and Virtual Fabrics
      • Filtering ports
      • Switch and chassis context enforcement
    • SNMP security levels
    • SNMP configuration
  • Telnet protocol
    • Blocking Telnet
    • Unblocking Telnet
  • Listener applications
  • Ports and applications used by switches
    • Port configuration
• Configuring Security Policies
  • ACL policies overview
    • How the ACL policies are stored
    • Policy members
  • ACL policy management
    • Displaying ACL policies
    • Saving changes without activating the policies
    • Activating ACL policy changes
    • Deleting an ACL policy
    • Adding a member to an existing ACL policy
    • Removing a member from an ACL policy
    • Abandoning unsaved ACL policy changes
  • FCS policies
    • FCS policy restrictions
    • Ensuring fabric domains share policies
    • Creating an FCS policy
    • Modifying the order of FCS switches
    • FCS policy distribution
  • Device Connection Control policies
    • DCC policy restrictions
    • Creating a DCC policy
    • Deleting a DCC policy
    • DCC policy behavior with Fabric-Assigned PWWNs
  • SCC Policies
    • Creating an SCC policy
  • Authentication policy for fabric elements
    • E_Port authentication
      • Configuring E_Port authentication
      • Re-authenticating E_Ports
    • Device authentication policy
      • Configuring device authentication
    • AUTH policy restrictions
    • Authentication protocols
      • Viewing the current authentication parameter settings for a switch
      • Setting the authentication protocol
    • Secret key pairs for DH-CHAP
      • Viewing the list of secret key pairs in the current switch database
      • Setting a secret key pair
    • FCAP configuration overview
      • Generating the key and CSR for FCAP
      • Exporting the CSR for FCAP
      • Importing CA for FCAP
      • Importing the FCAP switch certificate
      • Starting FCAP authentication
    • Fabric-wide distribution of the authorization policy
  • IP Filter policy
    • Creating an IP Filter policy
    • Cloning an IP Filter policy
    • Displaying an IP Filter policy
    • Saving an IP Filter policy
    • Activating an IP Filter policy
    • Deleting an IP Filter policy
    • IP Filter policy rules
      • Source address
      • Destination port
      • Protocol
      • Action
      • Traffic type and destination IP
      • Implicit filter rules
      • Default policy rules
    • IP Filter policy enforcement
    • Adding a rule to an IP Filter policy
    • Deleting a rule from an IP Filter policy
    • Aborting an IP Filter transaction
    • IP Filter policy distribution
    • Managing filter thresholds
  • Policy database distribution
    • Database distribution settings
      • Displaying the database distribution settings
      • Enabling local switch protection
      • Disabling local switch protection
    • ACL policy distribution to other switches
      • Distributing the local ACL policies
    • Fabric-wide enforcement
      • Displaying the fabric-wide consistency policy
      • Setting the fabric-wide consistency policy
    • Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
      • Matching fabric-wide consistency policies
      • Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  • Management interface security
    • Configuration examples
      • Endpoint-to-endpoint transport or tunnel
      • Gateway-to-gateway tunnel
      • Endpoint-to-gateway tunnel
      • RoadWarrior configuration
    • IP sec protocols
    • Security associations
      • IP sec proposal
    • Authentication and encryption algorithms
    • IP sec policies
      • IP sec traffic selector
      • IP sec transform
    • IKE policies
      • Key management
      • Pre-shared keys
      • Security certificates
      • Static Security Associations
    • Creating the tunnel
    • Example of an end-to-end transport tunnel mode
      • Notes
• Maintaining the Switch Configuration File
  • Configuration settings
    • Configuration file format
      • Chassis section
      • Switch section
  • Configuration file backup
    • Uploading a configuration file in interactive mode
  • Configuration file restoration
    • Restrictions
    • Configuration download without disabling a switch
      • Restoring a configuration
  • Configurations across a fabric
    • Downloading a configuration file from one switch to another switch of the same model
    • Security considerations
  • Configuration management for Virtual Fabrics
    • Uploading a configuration file from a switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled
    • Restoring a logical switch configuration using configDownload
    • Restrictions
  • Brocade configuration form
• Installing and Maintaining Firmware
  • Firmware download process overview
    • Upgrading and downgrading firmware
      • Passwordless firmware download
    • Considerations for FICON CUP environments
    • HA sync state
  • Preparing for a firmware download
    • Obtaining and decompressing firmware
    • Connected switches
    • Finding the switch firmware version
  • Firmware download on switches
    • Switch firmware download process overview
      • Upgrading firmware for Brocade fixed-port switches
  • Firmware download on a Backbone
    • Backbone firmware download process overview
      • Upgrading firmware on Backbones (including blades)
  • Firmware download from a USB device
    • Enabling the USB device
    • Viewing the USB file system
    • Downloading from the USB device using the relative path
    • Downloading from the USB device using the absolute path
  • FIPS support
    • Public and private key management
      • Updating the firmware key
    • The firmwareDownload command
      • Configuring a switch for signed firmware
    • Power-on firmware checksum test
  • Testing and restoring firmware on switches
    • Testing a different firmware version on a switch
  • Testing and restoring firmware on Backbones
    • Testing different firmware versions on Backbones
  • Validating a firmware download
• Managing Virtual Fabrics
  • Virtual Fabrics overview
  • Logical switch overview
    • Default logical switch
    • Logical switches and fabric IDs
    • Port assignment in logical switches
    • Logical switches and connected devices
  • Management model for logical switches
  • Logical fabric overview
    • Logical fabric and ISLs
    • Base switch and extended ISLs
      • Base fabric
      • Logical ports
      • Logical fabric formation
  • Account management and Virtual Fabrics
  • Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics
    • Supported port configurations in the fixed-port switches
      • Restrictions on fixed-port switches
    • Supported port configurations in Brocade Backbones
      • Restrictions on Brocade Backbones
    • Virtual Fabrics interaction with other Fabric OS features
  • Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics
    • Restrictions on XISLs
    • Restrictions on moving ports
  • Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
  • Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode
  • Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values
  • Creating a logical switch or base switch
  • Executing a command in a different logical switch context
  • Deleting a logical switch
  • Adding and moving ports on a logical switch
  • Displaying logical switch configuration
  • Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch
  • Changing a logical switch to a base switch
  • Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric
  • Removing an IP address for a Virtual Fabric
  • Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs
  • Changing the context to a different logical fabric
  • Creating a logical fabric using XISLs
• Administering Advanced Zoning
  • Zone types
  • Zoning overview
    • Approaches to zoning
    • Zone objects
      • Zoning schemes
    • Zone aliases
    • Zone configurations
    • Zoning enforcement
      • Identifying the enforced zone type
    • Considerations for zoning architecture
    • Best practices for zoning
  • Broadcast zones
    • Broadcast zones and Admin Domains
    • Broadcast zones and FC-FC routing
    • High availability considerations with broadcast zones
    • Loop devices and broadcast zones
    • Broadcast zones and default zoning mode
  • Zone aliases
    • Creating an alias
    • Adding members to an alias
    • Removing members from an alias
    • Deleting an alias
    • Viewing an alias in the defined configuration
  • Zone creation and maintenance
    • Displaying existing zones
    • Creating a zone
    • Adding devices (members) to a zone
    • Removing devices (members) from a zone
    • Replacing zone members
    • Deleting a zone
    • Viewing a zone in the defined configuration
      • Examining changes in the zone database
    • Validating a zone
      • Inconsistencies between the Defined and Effective Zone Databases
  • Default zoning mode
    • Setting the default zoning mode
    • Viewing the current default zone access mode
  • Zone database size
  • Zone configurations
    • Creating a zone configuration
    • Adding zones (members) to a zone configuration
    • Removing zones (members) from a zone configuration
    • Enabling a zone configuration
    • Disabling a zone configuration
    • Deleting a zone configuration
    • Abandoning zone configuration changes
    • Viewing all zone configuration information
    • Viewing selected zone configuration information
    • Viewing the configuration in the effective zone database
    • Clearing all zone configurations
  • Zone object maintenance
    • Copying a zone object
    • Deleting a zone object
    • Renaming a zone object
  • Zone configuration management
  • Security and zoning
  • Zone merging
    • Fabric segmentation and zoning
    • Zone merging scenarios
  • Concurrent zone transactions
    • Viewing zone database transactions
• Traffic Isolation Zoning
  • Traffic Isolation Zoning overview
    • TI zone failover
      • Additional considerations when disabling failover
    • FSPF routing rules and traffic isolation
  • Enhanced TI zones
    • Illegal configurations with enhanced TI zones
      • Illegal ETIZ configuration: separate paths from a port to devices on same domain
      • Illegal ETIZ configuration: separate paths from a single port to the same domain
  • Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers
    • TI zones within an edge fabric
    • TI zones within a backbone fabric
    • Limitations of TI zones over FC routers
  • General rules for TI zones
    • Traffic Isolation Zone violation handling for trunk ports
  • Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
    • Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones
    • Trunking with TI zones
  • Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning
  • Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
  • Virtual Fabrics considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
  • Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics
  • Creating a TI zone
    • Creating a TI zone in a base fabric
  • Modifying TI zones
  • Changing the state of a TI zone
  • Deleting a TI zone
  • Displaying TI zones
  • Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems
  • Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure)
• Bottleneck Detection
  • Bottleneck detection overview
    • Types of bottlenecks
    • How bottlenecks are reported
  • Supported configurations for bottleneck detection
    • Limitations of bottleneck detection
    • High availability considerations for bottleneck detection
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for bottleneck detection
    • Trunking considerations for bottleneck detection
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations for bottleneck detection
    • Access Gateway considerations for bottleneck detection
  • Credit Loss
    • Back-end credit loss detection and recovery support on Brocade 5300 switches
    • Back-end credit loss detection and recovery support on Brocade 6520 switches
    • Enabling back-end credit loss detection and recovery
  • Enabling bottleneck detection on a switch
  • Displaying bottleneck detection configuration details
  • Setting bottleneck detection alerts
    • Setting both a congestion alert and a latency alert
    • Setting a congestion alert only
    • Setting a latency alert only
  • Changing bottleneck detection parameters
    • Examples of applying and changing bottleneck detection parameters
      • Adjusting the frequency of bottleneck alerts
      • Notes
  • Advanced bottleneck detection settings
  • Excluding a port from bottleneck detection
  • Displaying bottleneck statistics
  • Disabling bottleneck detection on a switch
• In-flight Encryption and Compression
  • In-flight encryption and compression overview
    • Encryption and compression restrictions
    • How encryption and compression are enabled
      • Encryption and compression commands
    • Authentication and key generation
    • Availability considerations
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations
    • Recommendation for compression
  • Configuring encryption and compression
    • Summary
    • Viewing the encryption and compression configuration
    • Port speed and encryption/compression enabled ports
    • Changing port speed on encryption/compression enabled ports
    • Compression ratios and encryption/compression enabled ports
      • Limitations and restrictions
    • Configuring and enabling authentication
    • Configuring encryption
    • Configuring compression
    • Disabling encryption
    • Disabling compression
  • Encryption and compression examples
    • Example of enabling encryption and compression on an E_Port
    • Examples of disabling encryption and compression
  • Working with EX_Ports
    • In-flight encryption/compression on EX_Ports
      • Reasons for EX_Port segmentation
    • Example of enabling encryption and compression on an EX_Port
      • EX_Port commands
      • EX_Port downgrade considerations
• NPIV
  • NPIV overview
    • Upgrade considerations
    • Fixed addressing mode
    • 10-bit addressing mode
  • Configuring NPIV
  • Enabling and disabling NPIV
  • Viewing NPIV port configuration information
    • Viewing virtual PID login information
• Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric-Assigned PWWN
  • Introduction to Dynamic Fabric Provisioning using FA-PWWN
  • User- and auto-assigned FA-PWWN behavior
    • Checking for duplicate FA-PWWNs
  • Configuring FA-PWWNs
    • Configuring an FA-PWWN for an HBA connected to an Access Gateway
    • Configuring an FA-PWWN for an HBA connected to an edge switch
  • Supported switches and configurations for FA-PWWN
  • Configuration upload and download considerations for FA-PWWN
  • Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for FA-PWWN
  • Security considerations for FA-PWWN
  • Restrictions of FA-PWWN
  • Access Gateway N_Port failover with FA-PWWN
• Managing Administrative Domains
  • Administrative Domains overview
    • Admin Domain features
    • Requirements for Admin Domains
    • Admin Domain access levels
    • User-defined Admin Domains
    • System-defined Admin Domains
      • AD0
      • AD255
    • Home Admin Domains and login
    • Admin Domain member types
      • Device members
      • Switch port members
      • Switch members
    • Admin Domains and switch WWNs
    • Admin Domain compatibility, availability, and merging
  • Admin Domain management for physical fabric administrators
    • Setting the default zoning mode for Admin Domains
    • Creating an Admin Domain
    • User assignments to Admin Domains
      • Creating a new user account for managing Admin Domains
      • Assigning Admin Domains to an existing user account
      • Creating a physical fabric administrator user account
    • Removing an Admin Domain from a user account
    • Activating an Admin Domain
    • Deactivating an Admin Domain
    • Adding members to an existing Admin Domain
    • Removing members from an Admin Domain
    • Renaming an Admin Domain
    • Deleting an Admin Domain
    • Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
    • Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains non-disruptively
    • Validating an Admin Domain member list
  • SAN management with Admin Domains
    • CLI commands in an AD context
    • Executing a command in a different AD context
    • Displaying an Admin Domain configuration
    • Switching to a different Admin Domain context
    • Admin Domain interactions with other Fabric OS features
    • Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
    • Admin Domains and LSAN zones
    • Configuration upload and download in an AD context
• Administering Licensing
  • Licensing overview
  • Brocade 7800 Upgrade license
  • ICL licensing
    • ICL 1st POD license
    • ICL 2nd POD license
    • ICL 8-link license
    • ICL 16-link license
    • Enterprise ICL license
  • 8G licensing
  • Slot-based licensing
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations
    • Assigning a license to a slot
    • Removing a license from a slot
  • 10G licensing
    • Enabling 10 Gbps operation on an FC port
    • Enabling the 10-GbE ports on an FX8-24 blade
  • Temporary licenses
    • Restrictions on upgrading temporary slot-based licenses
    • Date change restriction
    • Configupload and download considerations
    • Expired licenses
      • Removing an expired license
    • Universal temporary licenses
    • Extending a universal temporary license
    • Universal temporary license shelf life
  • Viewing installed licenses
  • Activating a license
  • Adding a licensed feature
  • Removing a licensed feature
  • Ports on Demand
    • Displaying installed licenses
    • Activating Ports on Demand
    • Dynamic Ports on Demand
    • Displaying the port license assignments
    • Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
    • Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
    • Reserving a port license
    • Releasing a port from a POD set
• Inter-chassis Links
  • Inter-chassis links
  • ICLs for the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family
    • ICL trunking on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4
  • ICLs for the Brocade DCX Backbone family
    • ICL trunking on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
  • Virtual Fabrics considerations for ICLs
  • Supported topologies for ICL connections
    • Mesh topology
    • Core-edge topology
• Monitoring Fabric Performance
  • Advanced Performance Monitoring overview
    • Types of monitors
    • Restrictions for installing monitors
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance Monitoring
    • Access Gateway considerations for Advanced Performance Monitoring
  • End-to-end performance monitoring
    • Maximum number of EE monitors
    • Supported port configurations for EE monitors
    • Adding EE monitors
    • Setting a mask for an EE monitor
    • Deleting EE monitors
    • Displaying EE monitor counters
    • Clearing EE monitor counters
  • Frame monitoring
    • Creating frame types to be monitored
    • Creating a frame monitor
    • Deleting frame types
    • Adding frame monitors to a port
    • Removing frame monitors from a port
    • Saving a frame monitor configuration
    • Displaying frame monitors
    • Clearing frame monitor counters
  • Top Talker monitors
    • Top Talker monitors and FC-FC routing
    • Limitations of Top Talker monitors
    • Adding a Top Talker monitor to a port (port mode)
    • Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric mode)
    • Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on a port (port mode)
    • Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID (fabric mode)
    • Deleting a Top Talker monitor on a port (port mode)
    • Deleting all fabric mode Top Talker monitors
  • Trunk monitoring
  • Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  • Performance data collection
• Optimizing Fabric Behavior
  • Adaptive Networking overview
  • Ingress Rate Limiting
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations
    • Limiting traffic from a particular device
    • Disabling Ingress Rate Limiting
  • QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
    • License requirements for SID/DID prioritization
  • CS_CTL-based frame prioritization
    • Supported configurations for CS_CTL-based frame prioritization
    • High-availability considerations for CS_CTL-based frame prioritization
    • Enabling and disabling CS_CTL-based frame prioritization on ports
    • Using CS_CTL auto mode at the chassis level
    • Considerations for using CS_CTL-based frame prioritization
  • QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
    • Trunking considerations before you install the Adaptive Networking license
    • Manually disabling QoS on trunked ports
  • QoS zones
    • QoS on E_Ports
    • QoS over FC routers
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations for QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
    • High-availability considerations for QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
    • Supported configurations for QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
    • Limitations and restrictions for QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
  • Setting QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
  • Setting QoS zone-based traffic prioritization over FC routers
  • Disabling QoS zone-based traffic prioritization
• Managing Trunking Connections
  • Trunking overview
    • Types of trunking
    • Masterless trunking
    • License requirements for trunking
    • Port groups for trunking
  • Supported configurations for trunking
    • High Availability support for trunking
  • Supported platforms for trunking
  • Requirements for trunk groups
  • Recommendations for trunk groups
  • Configuring trunk groups
  • Enabling trunking on a port or switch
  • Disabling trunking on a port or switch
  • Displaying trunking information
  • Trunk Area and Admin Domains
  • ISL trunking over long-distance fabrics
  • EX_Port trunking
    • Masterless EX_Port trunking
    • Supported configurations and platforms for EX_Port trunking
      • Backward compatibility support
    • Configuring EX_Port trunking
    • Displaying EX_Port trunking information
  • F_Port trunking
    • F_Port trunking for Access Gateway
      • Requirements for F_Port trunking on an Access Gateway
      • Configuring F_Port trunking for an Access Gateway
    • F_Port trunking for Brocade adapters
      • Configuring F_Port trunking for a Brocade adapter
    • F_Port trunking considerations
    • F_Port trunking in Virtual Fabrics
  • Displaying F_Port trunking information
  • Disabling F_Port trunking
  • Enabling the DCC policy on a trunk area
  • Trunking with TI zones
• Managing Long-Distance Fabrics
  • Long-distance fabrics overview
  • Extended Fabrics device limitations
  • Long -distance link modes
  • Configuring an extended ISL
    • Enabling long distance when connecting to TDM devices
  • Buffer credit management
    • Buffer-to-buffer flow control
    • Optimal buffer credit allocation
      • Considerations for calculating buffer credits
    • Fibre Channel gigabit values reference definition
    • Buffer credit allocation based on full-size frames
      • Fibre Channel data frames
      • Allocating buffer credits based on full-sized frames
      • Calculating the number of buffers required based on full-size frames
    • Allocating buffer credits based on average-size frames
    • Configuring buffers for a single port directly
    • Configuring buffers using frame size
    • Calculating the number of buffers required given the distance, speed, and frame size
    • Allocating buffer credits for F_Ports
    • Monitoring buffers in a port group
    • Buffer credits switch or blade model
    • Maximum configurable distances for Extended Fabrics
    • Downgrade considerations
      • When a port is configured with –framesize and –distance options
      • When a port is configured with the –buffers option
  • Buffer credit recovery
    • Buffer credit recovery over an E_Port
    • Buffer credit recovery over an F_Port
    • Buffer credit recovery over an EX_Port
    • Enabling and disabling buffer credit recovery
  • Forward error correction on long-distance links
    • Enabling FEC on a long-distance link
    • Disabling FEC on a long-distance link
• Using FC-FC Routing to Connect Fabrics
  • FC-FC routing overview
    • License requirements for FC-FC routing
    • Supported platforms for FC-FC routing
    • Supported configurations for FC-FC routing
    • Network OS connectivity limitations
  • Fibre Channel routing concepts
    • Proxy devices
    • FC-FC routing topologies
    • Phantom domains
      • Identifying and deleting stale xlate domains
    • FCR authentication
  • Setting up FC-FC routing
    • Verifying the setup for FC-FC routing
  • Backbone fabric IDs
    • Assigning backbone fabric IDs
  • FCIP tunnel configuration
  • Inter-fabric link configuration
    • Configuring an IFL for both edge and backbone connections
  • FC router port cost configuration
    • Port cost considerations
    • Setting router port cost for an EX_Port
  • EX_Port frame trunking configuration
  • LSAN zone configuration
    • Use of Admin Domains with LSAN zones and FC-FC routing
    • Zone definition and naming
    • LSAN zones and fabric-to-fabric communications
    • Controlling device communication with the LSAN
    • Configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
    • Setting the maximum LSAN count
    • HA and downgrade considerations for LSAN zones
    • LSAN zone policies using LSAN tagging
      • Enforce tag
      • Speed tag
      • Rules for LSAN tagging
      • Configuring an Enforce LSAN tag
      • Configuring a Speed LSAN tag
      • Removing an LSAN tag
      • Displaying the LSAN tag configuration
    • LSAN zone binding
      • LSAN zone binding considerations
      • How LSAN zone binding works
      • FC router matrix definition
      • LSAN fabric matrix definition
      • Setting up LSAN zone binding
      • Viewing the LSAN zone binding matrixes
  • Proxy PID configuration
  • Fabric parameter considerations
  • Inter-fabric broadcast frames
    • Displaying the current broadcast configuration
    • Enabling broadcast frame forwarding
    • Disabling broadcast frame forwarding
  • Resource monitoring
  • FC-FC routing and Virtual Fabrics
    • Logical switch configuration for FC routing
    • Backbone-to-edge routing with Virtual Fabrics
  • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FC-FC routing
    • How replacing port blades affects EX_Port configuration
  • Displaying the range of output ports connected to xlate domains
• Port Indexing
• FIPS Support
  • FIPS overview
  • Zeroization functions
    • Power-on self tests
    • Conditional tests
  • FIPS mode configuration
    • LDAP in FIPS mode
      • Setting up LDAP for FIPS mode
    • LDAP certificates for FIPS mode
      • Importing an LDAP switch certificate
      • Exporting an LDAP switch certificate
      • Deleting an LDAP switch certificate
  • Preparing a switch for FIPS
    • Overview of steps
    • Enabling FIPS mode
    • Zeroizing for FIPS
    • Displaying FIPS configuration
• Hexadecimal Conversion
  • Example conversion of the hexadecimal triplet Ox616000
  • Decimal-to-hexadecimal conversion table
• Index