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Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.0

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Document History
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.0 53-0001536-01 N/A September 1999
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.2 53-0001558-02 N/A May 2000
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.3 53-0000067-02 N/A December 2000
Web Tools User’s Guide v3.0 53-0000130-03 N/A July 2001
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.6 53-0000197-02 N/A December 2001
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.0 / v4.0
53-0000185-02 N/A March 2002
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.0.2
53-0000185-03 N/A September 2002
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.1.0
53-0000503-02 N/A April 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.0
53-0000522-02 N/A April 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.2
53-0000522-04 Insistent Domain ID Mode.
Port Swapping information. Minor
editorial changes.
October 2003
Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide, v4.2.0
53-0000522-05 Updates to support new switch types:
Brocade 3250, 3850, 24000.
Structural changes, support changes,
installation changes.
December 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide
53-0000522-06 Clarifications on software and hardware
support, minor enhancements in
procedure text, minor rearranging of
content.
March 2004
Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
53-0000522-07 Updates to support new switch types
(3016, 4100) and Fabric OS v4.4.0,
including Ports on Demand, user
administration, and zoning wizards.
September 2004
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-08 Updates to support new switch types
(200E, 48000) and Fabric OS v5.0.1,
including switchAdmin role, upfront
login, and Web Tools EZ.
April 2005
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-09 Updates to add additional information
about refresh and polling rates.
July 2005
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-01 Updates to support new switch types
(4900, 7500) and Fabric OS v5.1.0,
including FCR, FCIP, and the FR4-18i
port blade. Web Tools EZ information is
moved to a separate book.
January 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-02 Updates to the FCIP chapter to clarify
how to configure tunnels.
April 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000194-01 Updates for Fabric OS v5.2.0 and the
FC4-16IP blade. Also new security for
Web Tools, including Role-Based Access
Control and administrative domains.
September 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000435-01 Updates to reflect interface
enhancements, support for new switch
types, IPv6 support, and other
enhancements.
June 2007

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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-01 Updates to reflect updates to enhanced
Access Gateway support, changes to
FCIP tunneling wizard, and other
enhancements.
October 2007
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-02 Updates for support for new switches,
traffic isolation zoning, F_Port trunking,
removal of enhanced Access Gateway
support, and other enhancements.
March 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001080-01 Updates to add features that require
the Enhanced Group Management
license, removal of features that are
now available from the Brocade Data
Center Fabric Manager (DCFM).
July 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001133-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Encryption Switch and FS8-18
Encryption Blade.
August 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001194-01 Updates to add support for Virtual
Fabrics, IPsec, and consistency with
DCFM.
November 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001343-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
7800 Extension Switch, Brocade 8000,
FCOE10-24 DCX Blade, and FX8-24 DCX
Extension Blade.
July 2009
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001772-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Fabric OS 6.4.0.
March 2010
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications . . . 6
Java installation on the workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation. . . 7
Installing patches on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Java plug-in configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers . . . . . . 8
Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Changes for consistency with DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Persisting GUI preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Free Professional Management tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Configuring Auto Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Setting a slot-level IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switch restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
WWN-based Persistent PID assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Assigning slots for a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Universal time-based licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Launching the High Availability window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Synchronizing services on the CP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Initiating a CP failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . . 57
Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Viewing logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Admin Domain configuration maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
SAS and SA firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Switch configurations for mixed fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Enabling interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 5 Managing Administrative Domains
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Saving local Admin Domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Creating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Adding ports or switches to the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Modifying Admin Domain members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Renaming Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Deleting Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Clearing the Admin Domain configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 6 Managing Ports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Opening the Port Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Allowed port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Ingress rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
FC Fastwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Port beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?. . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Enabling and disabling NPIV ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis. . . . . . . . . . . 95
Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Determining if a port index was swapped
with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 7 Enabling ISL Trunking
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
ISL Trunking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Viewing trunk group information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Chapter 8 Monitoring Performance
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Performance Monitor overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Basic monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Advanced monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Predefined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
User-defined graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Canvas configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Creating basic performance monitor graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Advanced performance monitoring graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Creating SID-DID Performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Creating the SCSI vs. IP Traffic graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Creating SCSI command graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

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Printing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Modifying graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Chapter 9 Administering Zoning
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Basic zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Traffic Isolation zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
LSAN zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
QoS zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Refreshing Zone Administration window information . . . . . . .124
Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Selecting a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .126
Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Cloning zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones . . .130
Zone configuration and zoning database management . . . . . . . .131
Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . .132
Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Cloning zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without
opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Viewing detailed information about the enabled
zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .136
Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones. . . . . . . . . . .137
Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Clearing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Zone configuration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

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Chapter 10 Working with Diagnostic Features
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
How a trace dump is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Disabling automatic trace uploads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Viewing detailed fan hardware status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Viewing the temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Viewing the power supply status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Defining Switch Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Port LED interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Port icon colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
LED representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Brocade 48000 Director LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Chapter 11 Using the FC-FC Routing Service
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Fibre Channel Routing overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Setting up FC-FC routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
FC-FC routing management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Opening the FC Routing module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
Viewing EX_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Configuring an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Editing the configuration of an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Configuring FCR router port cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Viewing LSAN zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Viewing LSAN devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Configuring the backbone fabric ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Chapter 12 Using the Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Access Gateway overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Restricted access in the Port Administration window . . . . . . . 161
Enabling Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

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Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Viewing the Access Gateway settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Editing or viewing port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Deleting port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Defining custom F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Defining custom WWN-N port mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Access Gateway policy modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Modifying Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . .167
Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
Chapter 13 Administering Fabric Watch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Opening the Fabric Watch window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
System Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Fabric Watch threshold configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Configuring threshold traits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Configuring threshold alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Enabling or disabling threshold alarms
for individual elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Configuring alarms for FRUs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Fabric Watch alarm information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Viewing an alarm configuration report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Displaying alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
E-mail notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
Configuring the e-mail server on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
Configuring the e-mail alert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Chapter 14 Administering Extended Fabrics
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Extended link buffer allocation overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Configuring a port for long distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Chapter 15 Administering the iSCSI Target Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

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iSCSI service overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Supported platforms for iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Common iSCSI Target Gateway Admin functions. . . . . . . . . . .186
Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Saving changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Setting up iSCSI Target Gateway services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
Launching the iSCSI Target Gateway Admin Module . . . . . . . .188
Launching the iSCSI setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Activating the iSCSI feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Encryption services for the iSCSI Target Gateway . . . . . . . . . .189
Configuring the IP interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Editing an IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Configuring the IP route (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Editing the IP route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Creating iSCSI virtual targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Using Easy Create to create iSCSI virtual targets . . . . . . . . . .192
Editing an iSCSI target. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
Searching for a specific Fibre Channel target . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Viewing iSCSI initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Discovery Domain management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Discovery domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Creating a discovery domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Editing a discovery domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Discovery domain sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Creating a discovery domain set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Editing a discovery domain set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
CHAP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Creating a CHAP user. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Editing a CHAP secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Binding or removing CHAP users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Connection redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Enabling or disabling connection redirection. . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
iSCSI Fibre Channel zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with no effective zone
configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with an effective zone
configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Managing and troubleshooting accessibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Chapter 16 Routing Traffic
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Viewing fabric shortest path first routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Configuring dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
Lossless dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

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Configuring the link cost for a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
Chapter 17 Configuring Standard Security Features
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
User-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208
Viewing user account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Creating user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Deleting user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
Changing user account parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
Maintaining passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Access control list policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Creating an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Editing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Deleting all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Activating all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Distributing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Moving an FCS policy switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Authentication policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
Configuring authentication policies for E_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .219
Configuring authentication policies for F_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .220
Distributing authentication policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
Re-authenticating policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Setting a shared secret key pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Modifying a shared secret key pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Setting the Switch Policy Authentication mode . . . . . . . . . . . .222
SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
Setting SNMP trap levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
Changing the systemGroup configuration parameters . . . . . .222
Setting SNMPv1 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Setting SNMPv3 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Changing the access control configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
RADIUS management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
Enabling and disabling RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Configuring RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Modifying the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226
Modifying the RADIUS server order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226
Removing a RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Active Directory service management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Enabling Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Modifying Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Removing Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

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IPsec concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
IPsec header options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230
Basic IPsec configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
Internet Key Exchange concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232
IPsec over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Accessing the IPsec Policies dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Establishing an IKE policy for an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Establishing an IPsec policy for an FCIP tunnel. . . . . . . . . . . .235
IPsec over management ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
Enabling the Ethernet IPsec policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
Establishing an IKE policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
Creating a security association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Creating an SA proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
Adding an IPsec transform policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
Adding an IPsec selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Manually creating an SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
Editing an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Deleting an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Establishing authentication policies for HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Chapter 18 Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
Enabling port-based routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244
Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . .244
FMS parameter configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245
Configuring FMS mode parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
CUP port connectivity configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
Viewing CUP port connectivity configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
Modifying CUP port connectivity configurations . . . . . . . . . . .249
Activating a CUP port connectivity configuration. . . . . . . . . . .250
Copying a CUP port connectivity configuration . . . . . . . . . . . .251
Deleting a CUP port connectivity configuration . . . . . . . . . . . .251
CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251
Viewing CUP logical path configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251
Configuring CUP logical paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations . .252
Configuring LIRRs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253

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Chapter 19 Configuring FCoE with Web Tools
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255
Web Tools and FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Port information that is unique to FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Switch administration and FC0E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
FC0E configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
Quality of Service configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258
Adding a CEE map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258
Adding a traffic class map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
LLDP-DCBX configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Configuring global LLDP characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Adding an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
Configuring CEE interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262
Configuring a link aggregation group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Configuring FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264
Displaying FCoE port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265
Displaying LAG information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Displaying FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Displaying QoS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Displaying LLDP-DCBX information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Displaying CEE interface statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Configuring a CEE interface from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Configuring a CEE interface from the Port Admin panel . . . . . . . .267
Enabling and disabling a LAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268
Enabling and disabling LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268
Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control . . . . . . . . .268
Enabling and disabling FCoE ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269
Chapter 20 Limitations
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
General Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
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Figures
Figure 1 Configuring Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 2 Default Java for browsers option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 3 Web Tools interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 4 Virtual Fabric login option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 5 Login dialog box with Admin Domain options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 6 Invalid Admin Domain dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 7 Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 8 Right-click for Copy, Export, and Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 9 Missing EGM license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 10 Login dialog box with Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 11 Changing the Admin Domain context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 12 USB port storage management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 13 Right-click menu for ports (from Switch Explorer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 14 Switch Administration window, Switch tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 15 Blade tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Figure 16 License tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Figure 17 High Availability window, Service tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Figure 18 High Availability window, CP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 19 Logical switch selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Figure 20 USB configuration upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Figure 21 Information dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Figure 22 Fabric ID selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Figure 23 USB configuration download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Figure 24 USB information dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Figure 25 USB Port Management wizard—right-click options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Figure 26 Admin Domain window, summary view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Figure 27 Admin Domain window, single Admin Domain detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Figure 28 Searching for a text string in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Figure 29 Port Administration window, Table view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Figure 30 Port swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Figure 31 Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Figure 32 F-Port BB Credit button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Figure 33 Trunking tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Figure 34 Accessing performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Figure 35 Canvas of six performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Figure 36 Select Ports for customizing the Switch Throughput Utilization graph . . . . . . 110

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Figure 37 Zone Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Figure 38 Sample zoning database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Figure 39 Temperature Sensor States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Figure 40 Fan States window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Figure 41 Power States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Figure 42 Switch Report window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Figure 43 Switch Status Policy dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Figure 44 Port and LED status color-coded display in the Port icon in Switch View . . . . 147
Figure 45 Port LEDs for the FC4-32 port blade in the Brocade 48000 Director . . . . . . . 148
Figure 46 FC Routing module in Disabled mode with General tab selected . . . . . . . . . . 152
Figure 47 FC Routing module with LSAN Fabrics tab selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Figure 48 FC Routing module with EX_Ports tab selected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Figure 49 Switch Explorer view for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Figure 50 Port Configuration Policy disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Figure 51 Port Group Configuration—view only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Figure 52 Access Gateway Auto Rebalancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Figure 53 Fabric Watch window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Figure 54 Extended Fabric tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Figure 55 Routing tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Figure 56 User tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Figure 57 Add User Account dialog box (VF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 58 Add User Account dialog box (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Figure 59 Choices in the Secondary AAA Service drop-down menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Figure 60 Transport mode and tunnel mode comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Figure 61 AH header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Figure 62 ESP header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Figure 63 Edit Port CUP Connectivity dialog box swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Figure 64 Port CUP Connectivity Configuration dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Figure 65 Switch RNID information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Figure 66 Switch Administration CEE subtabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Figure 67 FCoE Ports tab, Port Administration panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Figure 68 FCoE Edit Configuration dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

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Table 1 Basic Web Tools features and EGM licensed features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Table 2 Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Table 3 Certified and tested platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 4 Predefined Web Tools roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Table 5 Icon image changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 6 Polling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Table 7 Switches that support WWN-based Persistent PID on Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Table 8 Event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Table 9 Ports enabled with POD licenses and DPOD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Table 10 Basic performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 11 Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 12 Supported port types for Brocade switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Table 13 Zoning features supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition . . . . 119
Table 14 QoS zone name prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Table 15 Alarm notification table fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Table 16 Long-distance settings and license requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Table 17 iSCSI target gateway services terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Table 18 User role and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Table 19 Relevant RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Table 20 Encryption algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Table 21 Hash algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Table 22 FMS mode parameter descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Table 23 Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

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