Document Outline

• Contents
  • Intended audience
  • Related documentation
  • HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary
  • Document conventions and symbols
    • Table 1 Document conventions
  • HP technical support
    • HP-authorized reseller
    • Helpful web sites
• Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures
  • About procedural differences
  • Scope and references
  • About the CLI
  • Help information
    • Displaying command help
    • Additional help topics
• Performing basic configuration tasks
  • Connecting to the Command Line Interface
  • Setting the IP address
  • Setting the default account passwords
    • Table 2 Maximum number of simultaneous sessions
  • 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
  • Working with domain IDs
  • Linking through a gateway
  • Checking status
  • Tracking and controlling switch changes
• Configuring standard security features
  • Secure protocols
    • Table 4 Secure protocol support
    • Table 5 Items needed to deploy secure protocols
    • Table 6 Main security scenarios
  • Ensuring network security
  • Configuring the telnet interface
  • Blocking listeners
    • Table 7 Blocked listener applications
  • Accessing switches and fabrics
    • Table 8 Access defaults
  • Creating and maintaining user-defined accounts
  • Changing an account password
  • Setting up RADIUS AAA service
    • Configuring the RADIUS server
    • Configuring the switch
    • Enabling and disabling local authentication
  • Configuring for the SSL protocol
    • Browser and Java support
    • Summary of SSL procedures
      • Table 9 SSL certificate files
    • Choosing a CA
    • Generating a public/private key
    • Generating and storing a CSR
    • Obtaining certificates
    • Installing a switch certificate
    • Activating a switch certificate
    • Configuring the browser
    • Installing a root certificate to the Java Plug-in
    • Displaying and deleting certificates
      • Table 10 Commands to display and delete SSL certificates
    • Troubleshooting certificates
      • Table 11 SSL messages and actions
  • Configuring SNMP agent and traps
    • Setting the security level
    • Using the snmpConfig command
    • Using legacy commands for SNMPv1
  • Configuring secure file copy
  • Setting the boot PROM password
    • Without a recovery string
  • Recovering forgotten passwords
• Maintaining configurations and firmware
  • Maintaining configurations
    • Displaying configuration settings
    • Backing up a configuration
    • Restoring a configuration
    • Restoring configurations in a FICON environment
      • Table 12 Backup and restore in a FICON CUP environment
    • Downloading configurations across a fabric
    • Printing hard copies of switch information
  • Maintaining firmware
    • Obtaining and unzipping firmware
    • Checking connected switches
      • Table 13 Recommended firmware
    • About the download process
      • Table 14 Effects of firmware changes on accounts and passwords
    • Upgrading HP StorageWorks switches
    • Upgrading HP StorageWorks directors
  • Troubleshooting firmware downloads
• Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director
  • Identifying ports
    • By slot and port number
    • By port area ID
  • Basic blade management
    • Powering port blades off and on
    • Disabling and enabling port blades
    • Conserving power
    • Blade terminology and compatibility
      • Table 15 HP StorageWorks director terminology and abbreviations
    • CP blades
    • Port blade compatibility
      • Table 16 Blades supported by each HP StorageWorks director
  • Setting chassis configurations
    • Table 17 Supported configuration options
    • Obtaining slot information
    • Configuring a new SAN Director 2/128 with two domains
    • Converting an installed SAN Director 2/128 to support two domains
  • Setting the blade beacon mode
• Routing traffic
  • About data routing and routing policies
  • Specifying the routing policy
  • Assigning a static route
  • Specifying frame order delivery
  • Using DLS
  • Viewing routing path information
  • Viewing routing information along a path
• Administering FICON fabrics
  • FICON overview
    • Table 18 Fabric OS commands related to FICON and FICON CUP
  • Configuring switches
  • Preparing a switch
    • Configuring a single switch
    • Configuring a high-integrity fabric
      • Figure 1 Cascaded configuration with two switches
      • Figure 2 Cascaded configuration with three switches
  • Setting a unique domain ID
  • Displaying information
    • Link incidents
    • Registered listeners
    • Node identification data
    • FRU failures
  • Swapping ports
  • Clearing the FICON management database
  • Using FICON CUP
    • Setup summary
    • Enabling and disabling FMS mode
    • Displaying the fmsmode setting
    • Displaying mode register bit settings
      • Table 19 FICON CUP mode register bits
    • Setting mode register bits
    • Persistently enabling and disabling ports
    • Port and switch naming standards
    • Adding and removing FICON CUP licenses
    • Zoning and PDCM considerations
    • Backing up and restoring configurations
  • Troubleshooting
    • Identifying ports
  • Backing up FICON files
  • Recording configuration information
    • Figure 3 FICON switch configuration worksheet
• Configuring the Distributed Management Server
  • Enabling and disabling the platform services
  • Controlling access
  • Configuring the server database
  • Controlling topology discovery
• Working with diagnostic features
  • Viewing POST
  • Viewing switch status
  • Viewing port information
    • Table 20 Port error summary description
  • Viewing equipment status
  • Viewing the system message log
  • Viewing the port log
    • Table 21 Commands for port log management
  • Configuring for syslogd
    • Configuring the host
      • Table 22 Fabric OS and UNIX message severities
    • Configuring the switch
  • Viewing and saving diagnostic information
  • Setting up automatic trace dump transfers
• Troubleshooting
  • Most common problem areas
    • Table 23 Common troubleshooting problems and tools
  • Gathering information for technical support
    • Troubleshooting questions
  • Analyzing connection problems
  • Restoring a segmented fabric
  • Correcting zoning setup issues
    • Table 24 Types of zone discrepancies
    • Table 25 Commands for debugging zoning
  • Recognizing MQ errors
  • Correcting I2C bus errors
  • Correcting device login issues
  • Identifying media-related issues
    • Table 26 Component test descriptions
    • Table 27 Switch component tests
  • Correcting link failures
    • Table 28 Switchshow output and suggested action
  • Correcting marginal links
    • Table 29 Loopback modes
  • Inaccurate information in the system message log
  • Port initialization and FCP auto-discovery process
• Administering extended fabrics
  • About extended link buffer allocation
    • SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, and SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director (FC2-16 port blades)
    • Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, SAN Switch 4/32, and 4/256 SAN Director (FC4-16 and FC4-32 port blades)
  • Fabric considerations
  • Choosing an extended ISL mode
    • Table 30 Extended ISL modes: switches with Bloom ASIC
    • Table 31 Extended ISL modes: switches with Goldeneye ASIC
    • Table 32 Extended ISL modes: switches with Condor ASIC.
  • Configuring an extended ISL
  • Trunking over distance
• Administering ISL trunking
  • About ISL trunking
    • Figure 4 Distribution of traffic over ISL trunking groups
  • 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
    • Figure 5 Zoning example
  • Zoning concepts
    • Zone types
      • Table 33 Types of zoning
      • Table 34 Approaches to fabric-based zoning
    • Zone objects
    • Zone aliases
    • Zone configurations
    • Zoning enforcement
      • Table 35 Enforcing hardware zoning
      • Figure 6 Hardware-enforced non-overlap ping zones
      • Figure 7 Hardware-enforced overlapping zones
      • Figure 8 Zoning with hardware assist (mixed-port and WWN zones)
      • Figure 9 Session-based hard zoning
    • Rules for configuring zones
  • Creating and managing zone aliases
  • Creating and maintaining zones
    • Table 36 Resulting database size: 0 to 96K
    • Table 37 Resulting database size: 96K to 128K
    • Table 38 Resulting database size: 128K to 256K
    • Table 39 Resulting database size: 256K to 1M
  • Creating and modifying zoning configurations
    • Maintaining zone objects
  • Managing zoning configurations in a fabric
    • Table 40 Zoning database limitations
    • Adding a new switch or fabric
    • Splitting a fabric
  • Using zoning to administer security
  • Resolving zone conflicts
    • Table 41 Considerations for zoning architecture
• Administering advanced performance monitoring
  • Table 42 Advanced performance monitoring commands
  • Displaying and clearing the CRC error count
  • Monitoring EE performance
    • Adding EE monitors
      • Figure 10 Setting EE monitors on a port
      • Figure 11 Proper placement of EE performance monitors
    • Setting a mask for EE monitors
      • Figure 12 Mask positions for EE monitors
    • Deleting EE monitors
  • Monitoring filter-based performance
    • Adding standard filter-based monitors
      • Table 43 Commands to add filter-based monitors
    • Adding custom filter-based monitors
      • Table 44 Predefined values at offset 0
  • Monitoring ISL performance
  • Monitoring trunks
  • Displaying monitor counters
  • Clearing monitor counters
  • Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  • Collecting performance data
• 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 45 Effects of PID format changes on configurations
  • Selecting a PID format
    • Table 46 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
  • Changing to Extended Edge PID format
    • Table 47 Earliest Fabric OS versions for Extended Edge PID format
  • Converting port number to area ID
    • Figure 13 4/256 SAN Director with Extended Edge PID
  • PID format changes
    • Executing the basic procedure
    • Executing the HP-UX procedure
    • Executing the AIX procedure
  • Swapping port area IDs
• Configuring interoperability mode
• Using the HP Remote Switch feature
• Understanding legacy password behavior
  • Password management information
    • Table 48 Account and password characteristics matrix
  • Password prompting behaviors
    • Table 49 Password prompting matrix
  • Password migration during firmware changes
    • Table 50 Password migration behavior during firmware upgrade and downgrade
  • Password recovery options
    • Table 51 Password recovery options
• Zone merging scenarios
  • Table 52 Zone merging scenarios
• Upgrading firmware in single-CP mode
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