Document Outline

• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• About This Document
  • In this chapter
  • How this document is organized
  • Supported hardware and software
  • What’s new in this document
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
    • Key terms
  • Notice to the reader
  • Additional information
    • Brocade resources
    • Other industry resources
  • Getting technical help
  • Document feedback
• Introducing Web Tools
  • In this chapter
  • Web Tools overview
  • Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM
    • Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license
    • Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM
  • System requirements
    • Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer
    • Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications
  • Java installation on the workstation
    • Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation
    • Installing patches on Solaris
    • Installing the Java plug-in on Windows
  • Java plug-in configuration
    • Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows
    • Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers
  • Value line licenses
  • Opening Web Tools
    • Logging in
    • Logging out
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Session management
    • Ending a Web Tools session
  • Web Tools system logs
  • Requirements for IPv6 support
• Using the Web Tools Interface
  • In this chapter
  • Viewing Switch Explorer
    • Changes for consistency with DCFM
    • Persisting GUI preferences
    • Tasks
    • Fabric Tree
    • Changing the Admin Domain context
    • Switch View buttons
    • Switch View
    • Switch Events and Switch Information
    • Free Professional Management tool
  • Displaying tool tips
  • Right-click options
  • Refresh rates
  • Displaying switches in the fabric
  • Working with Web Tools: recommendations
  • Opening a Telnet or SSH client window
  • Collecting logs for troubleshooting
• Managing Fabrics and Switches
  • In this chapter
  • Fabric and switch management overview
    • Opening the Switch Administration window
  • Configuring IP and subnet mask information
  • Configuring Auto Refresh
  • Configuring a syslog IP address
  • Removing a syslog IP address
  • Configuring IP Filtering
  • Blade management
    • Enabling or disabling a blade
    • Setting a slot-level IP address
    • Viewing IP addresses
  • Switch configuration
    • Enabling and disabling a switch
    • Changing the switch name
    • Changing the switch domain ID
    • Viewing and printing a switch report
  • Switch restart
    • Performing a fast boot
    • Performing a reboot
  • System configuration parameters
    • WWN-based Persistent PID assignment
    • Configuring fabric settings
    • Enabling insistent domain ID mode
    • Configuring virtual channel settings
    • Configuring arbitrated loop parameters
    • Configuring system services
    • Configuring signed firmware
  • Licensed feature management
    • Activating a license on a switch
    • Assigning slots for a license key
    • Removing a license from a switch
    • Universal time-based licensing
  • High Availability overview
    • Admin Domain considerations
    • Launching the High Availability window
    • Synchronizing services on the CP
    • Initiating a CP failover
  • Event monitoring
    • Displaying Switch Events
    • Filtering Switch Events
    • Filtering events by event severity levels
    • Filtering events by message ID
    • Filtering events by service component
  • Displaying the Name Server entries
    • Printing the Name Server entries
    • Displaying Name Server information for a particular device
    • Displaying zone members for a particular device
  • Physically locating a switch using beaconing
  • Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing
  • Virtual Fabrics overview
    • Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View
    • Viewing logical ports
• Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
  • In this chapter
  • Creating a configuration backup file
  • Restoring a configuration
  • Admin Domain configuration maintenance
  • Uploading and downloading from USB storage
  • Performing a firmware download
    • SAS and SA firmware download
  • Switch configurations for mixed fabrics
    • Enabling interoperability
• Managing Administrative Domains
  • In this chapter
  • Administrative Domain overview
    • Requirements for Admin Domains
    • User-defined Admin Domains
    • System-defined Admin Domains
    • Admin Domain membership
  • Enabling Admin Domains
  • Admin Domain window
    • Opening the Admin Domain window
    • Refreshing fabric information
    • Refreshing Admin Domain information
    • Saving local Admin Domain changes
    • Closing the Admin Domain window
  • Creating and populating domains
    • Creating an Admin Domain
    • Adding ports or switches to the fabric
    • Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain
  • Modifying Admin Domain members
    • Renaming Admin Domains
    • Deleting Admin Domains
    • Clearing the Admin Domain configuration
• Managing Ports
  • In this chapter
  • Port management overview
    • Opening the Port Administration window
    • Port Administration window components
    • Controllable ports
  • Configuring FC ports
    • Allowed port types
    • Long distance mode
    • Ingress rate limit
    • FC Fastwrite
  • Assigning a name to a port
  • Port beaconing
  • Enabling and disabling a port
    • Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?
  • Persistent enabling and disabling ports
  • Enabling and disabling NPIV ports
  • Port activation
    • Enabling Ports on Demand
    • Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
    • Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
    • Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis
  • Port swapping index
    • Port swapping
    • Determining if a port index was swapped with another switch port
  • Configuring BB credits on an F_Port
• Enabling ISL Trunking
  • In this chapter
  • ISL Trunking overview
  • Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking
    • Admin Domain considerations
  • Viewing trunk group information
  • F_Port trunk groups
    • Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups
• Monitoring Performance
  • In this chapter
  • Performance Monitor overview
    • Basic monitoring
    • Advanced monitoring
    • Performance graphs
    • Admin Domain considerations
    • Predefined performance graphs
    • User-defined graphs
    • Canvas configurations
  • Opening the Performance Monitoring window
  • Creating basic performance monitor graphs
  • Customizing basic monitoring graphs
  • Advanced performance monitoring graphs
    • Creating SID-DID Performance graphs
    • Creating the SCSI vs. IP Traffic graph
    • Creating SCSI command graphs
  • Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs
    • Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties
  • Saving graphs to a canvas
  • Adding graphs to an existing canvas
  • Printing graphs
  • Modifying graphs
• Administering Zoning
  • In this chapter
  • Zoning overview
    • Basic zones
    • Traffic Isolation zones
    • LSAN zone requirements
    • QoS zone requirements
  • Zoning configurations
    • Opening the Zone Administration window
    • Setting the default zoning mode
  • Zoning management
    • Refreshing fabric information
    • Refreshing Zone Administration window information
    • Saving local zoning changes
    • Selecting a zoning view
    • Creating and populating zone aliases
    • Adding and removing members of a zone alias
    • Renaming zone aliases
    • Deleting zone aliases
    • Creating and populating zones
    • Adding and removing members of a zone
    • Renaming zones
    • Cloning zones
    • Deleting zones
    • Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones
  • Zone configuration and zoning database management
    • Creating zone configurations
    • Adding or removing zone configuration members
    • Renaming zone configurations
    • Cloning zone configurations
    • Deleting zone configurations
    • Enabling zone configurations
    • Disabling zone configurations
    • Displaying enabled zone configurations
    • Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without opening the Zone Administration window
    • Viewing detailed information about the enabled zone configuration
    • Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones
    • Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones
    • Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones
    • Searching for zone members
    • Clearing the zoning database
    • Zone configuration analysis
  • Best practices for zoning
• Working with Diagnostic Features
  • In this chapter
  • Trace dumps
    • How a trace dump is used
    • Setting up automatic trace dump transfers
    • Specifying a remote server
    • Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps
    • Disabling automatic trace uploads
  • Displaying switch information
    • Viewing detailed fan hardware status
    • Viewing the temperature status
    • Viewing the power supply status
    • Checking the physical health of a switch
  • Defining Switch Policy
  • Port LED interpretation
    • Port icon colors
    • LED representations
    • Brocade 48000 Director LEDs
• Using the FC-FC Routing Service
  • In this chapter
  • Fibre Channel Routing overview
  • Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing
  • Setting up FC-FC routing
  • FC-FC routing management
    • Opening the FC Routing module
    • Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics
  • Viewing EX_Ports
  • Configuring an EX_Port
    • Editing the configuration of an EX_Port
  • Configuring FCR router port cost
  • Viewing LSAN zones
    • Viewing LSAN devices
  • Configuring the backbone fabric ID
• Using the Access Gateway
  • In this chapter
  • Access Gateway overview
  • Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode
  • Access Gateway mode
    • Restricted access in the Port Administration window
  • Enabling Access Gateway mode
  • Disabling Access Gateway mode
  • Viewing the Access Gateway settings
  • Port configuration
    • Creating port groups
    • Editing or viewing port groups
    • Deleting port groups
    • Defining custom F-N port mapping
    • Defining custom WWN-N port mappings
  • Access Gateway policy modification
    • Path Failover and Failback policies
    • Modifying Path Failover and Failback policies
    • Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy
  • Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000
• Administering Fabric Watch
  • In this chapter
  • Fabric Watch overview
  • Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools
    • Opening the Fabric Watch window
  • System Monitor
  • Fabric Watch threshold configuration
    • Configuring threshold traits
    • Configuring threshold alarms
    • Enabling or disabling threshold alarms for individual elements
  • Configuring alarms for FRUs
  • Fabric Watch alarm information
    • Viewing an alarm configuration report
    • Displaying alarms
  • E-mail notification
    • Configuring the e-mail server on a switch
    • Configuring the e-mail alert
• Administering Extended Fabrics
  • In this chapter
  • Extended link buffer allocation overview
  • Configuring a port for long distance
• Administering the iSCSI Target Gateway
  • In this chapter
  • iSCSI service overview
    • Supported platforms for iSCSI
    • Common iSCSI Target Gateway Admin functions
    • Terminology
    • Saving changes
  • Setting up iSCSI Target Gateway services
    • Launching the iSCSI Target Gateway Admin Module
    • Launching the iSCSI setup wizard
    • Activating the iSCSI feature
    • Encryption services for the iSCSI Target Gateway
    • Configuring the IP interface
    • Editing an IP Address
    • Configuring the IP route (optional)
    • Editing the IP route
    • Creating iSCSI virtual targets
    • Using Easy Create to create iSCSI virtual targets
    • Editing an iSCSI target
    • Searching for a specific Fibre Channel target
    • Viewing iSCSI initiators
  • Discovery Domain management
    • Discovery domains
    • Creating a discovery domain
    • Editing a discovery domain
  • Discovery domain sets
    • Creating a discovery domain set
    • Editing a discovery domain set
  • CHAP configuration
    • Creating a CHAP user
    • Editing a CHAP secret
    • Binding or removing CHAP users
  • Connection redirection
    • Enabling or disabling connection redirection
  • iSCSI Fibre Channel zone configuration
    • Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with no effective zone configuration
    • Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with an effective zone configuration
  • Managing and troubleshooting accessibility
• Routing Traffic
  • In this chapter
  • Routing overview
  • Viewing fabric shortest path first routing
  • Configuring dynamic load sharing
    • Lossless dynamic load sharing
  • Specifying frame order delivery
  • Configuring the link cost for a port
• Configuring Standard Security Features
  • In this chapter
  • User-defined accounts
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations
    • Admin Domain considerations
    • Viewing user account information
    • Creating user-defined accounts
    • Deleting user-defined accounts
    • Changing user account parameters
    • Maintaining passwords
  • Access control list policy configuration
    • Virtual Fabrics considerations
    • Admin Domain considerations
    • Creating an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy
    • Editing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy
    • Deleting all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies
    • Activating all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies
    • Distributing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy
    • Moving an FCS policy switch position
  • Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration
  • Authentication policy configuration
    • Configuring authentication policies for E_Ports
    • Configuring authentication policies for F_Ports
    • Distributing authentication policies
    • Re-authenticating policies
    • Setting a shared secret key pair
    • Modifying a shared secret key pair
    • Setting the Switch Policy Authentication mode
  • SNMP configuration
    • Setting SNMP trap levels
    • Changing the systemGroup configuration parameters
    • Setting SNMPv1 configuration parameters
    • Setting SNMPv3 configuration parameters
    • Changing the access control configuration
  • RADIUS management
    • Enabling and disabling RADIUS
    • Configuring RADIUS
    • Modifying the RADIUS server
    • Modifying the RADIUS server order
    • Removing a RADIUS server
  • Active Directory service management
    • Enabling Active Directory service
    • Modifying Active Directory service
    • Removing Active Directory service
  • IPsec concepts
    • Transport mode and tunnel mode
    • IPsec header options
    • Basic IPsec configurations
    • Internet Key Exchange concepts
  • IPsec over FCIP
    • Accessing the IPsec Policies dialog box
    • Establishing an IKE policy for an FCIP tunnel
    • Establishing an IPsec policy for an FCIP tunnel
  • IPsec over management ports
    • Enabling the Ethernet IPsec policies
    • Establishing an IKE policy
    • Creating a security association
    • Creating an SA proposal
    • Adding an IPsec transform policy
    • Adding an IPsec selector
    • Manually creating an SA
    • Editing an IKE or IPsec policy
    • Deleting an IKE or IPsec policy
  • Establishing authentication policies for HBAs
• Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
  • In this chapter
  • FICON CUP fabrics overview
  • Enabling port-based routing
  • Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode
  • FMS parameter configuration
    • Configuring FMS mode parameters
  • Displaying code page information
  • Viewing the control device state
  • CUP port connectivity configuration
    • Viewing CUP port connectivity configurations
    • Modifying CUP port connectivity configurations
    • Activating a CUP port connectivity configuration
    • Copying a CUP port connectivity configuration
    • Deleting a CUP port connectivity configuration
  • CUP logical path configuration
    • Viewing CUP logical path configurations
    • Configuring CUP logical paths
  • Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration
    • Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations
    • Configuring LIRRs
  • Displaying Request Node Identification Data
• Configuring FCoE with Web Tools
  • In this chapter
  • Web Tools and FCoE overview
  • Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM
    • Port information that is unique to FCoE
  • Switch administration and FC0E
  • FC0E configuration tasks
  • Quality of Service configuration
    • Adding a CEE map
    • Adding a traffic class map
  • LLDP-DCBX configuration
    • Configuring global LLDP characteristics
    • Adding an LLDP profile
  • Configuring CEE interfaces
  • Configuring a link aggregation group
  • Configuring VLANs
  • Configuring FCoE login groups
  • Displaying FCoE port information
  • Displaying LAG information
  • Displaying VLAN information
  • Displaying FCoE login groups
  • Displaying QoS information
  • Displaying LLDP-DCBX information
  • Displaying CEE interface statistics
  • Configuring a CEE interface from the Switch View
  • Configuring a CEE interface from the Port Admin panel
  • Enabling and disabling a LAG
  • Enabling and disabling LLDP
  • Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control
  • Enabling and disabling FCoE ports
• Limitations
  • In this chapter
  • General Web Tools limitations
• Index