Brocade Communications Systems SN3000B Operator's manual

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Fabric OS
Documentation Updates
Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x

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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date
Fabric OS Documentation Updates 53-1002165-01 New document June 2011
Fabric OS Documentation Updates 53-1002165-02 Update to include FCIP
Administrator’s Guide correction
July 2011
Fabric OS Documentation Updates 53-1002165-03 Updates to CEE Command
Reference, Encryption (RKM), Fabric
Watch, FOS Administrators, and
Troubleshooting guides.
August 2011
Fabric OS Documentation Updates 53-1002165-04 Updates to 6510, 8510-8, 8510-4,
DCX, and DCX-4S hardware manuals.
September 2011
Fabric OS Documentation Updates 53-1002165-05 Updates to support Fabric OS 7.0.1. December 2011

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Brocade Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1 Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later. . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2, Configuring Ports in Access Gateway Mode . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 CEE Command Reference
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later. . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 3 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later. . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 22, Managing Long Distance Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 23, Managing Long Distance Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 4 Fabric OS Command Reference
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Documentation Updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Documentation Updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 5 Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting LKM
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Documentation updates for LKM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Chapter 3, Configuring Brocade Encryption Using CLI . . . . . . .13
Failover/failback policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 5, Best Practices and Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Key Vault Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Chapter 6, Maintenance and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Manually synchronizing the security database . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Chapter 6 Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting RKM
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Documentation updates for RKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2, Encryption configuration using the Management
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Disk device decommissioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 3, Configuring Brocade Encryption Using CLI . . . . . . . 16
Failover/failback policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 5, Best Practices and Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Key Vault Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 6, Maintenance and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Manually synchronizing the security database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 7 Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting SKM and ESKM
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Documentation updates for SKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 3, Configuring Brocade Encryption Using CLI . . . . . . .19
Failover/failback policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 5, Best Practices and Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Key Vault Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 6, Maintenance and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Manually synchronizing the security database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 8 Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting TEMS
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Documentation updates for TEMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3, Configuring Brocade Encryption Using CLI . . . . . . . 21
Failover/failback policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 5, Best Practices and Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Key Vault Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 6, Maintenance and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Manually synchronizing the security database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 9 Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting TEMS
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Documentation updates for TKLM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Chapter 3, Configuring Brocade Encryption Using CLI . . . . . . .23
Failover/failback policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 5, Best Practices and Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Key Vault Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Chapter 6, Maintenance and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Manually synchronizing the security database . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Chapter 10 Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later. . . . . . . . . .25
Chapter 2, FCIP on the 7800 Switch and FX8-24 Blade. . . . . . 25
Chapter 11 Fabric OS MIB Reference
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 1, Understanding Brocade SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 4, FE MIB Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Chapter 5, Entity MIB Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 6, SW-MIB Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 7, High-Availability MIB Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chapter 9, FibreAlliance MIB Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 11, FCIP MIB Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chapter 12 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later. . . . . . . . . .33
Appendix A, Switch Type and Blade ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 and later . . . . . . . . . .34
Chapter 10, Diagnostic Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Appendix A, Switch Type and Blade ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 13 Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Documentation updates for Fabric Watch v7.0.0 and later . . . . . . .35
Chapter 1. Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 8. System Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Chapter 9. Fabric Watch configuration using Web Tools. . . . . .36
Chapter 14 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 9, Administering Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 1, Introducing Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 2, Using the Web Tools Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 6, Managing Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Chapter 11, Using the FC-FC Routing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 14, Administering Extended Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Chapter 15, Routing Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Chapter 17, Administering FICON CUP Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 15 Brocade 6510 Hardware Reference Manual
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 2, Brocade 6510 Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . 41
Appendix A, Brocade 6510 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 16 Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Preparing for the WWN card replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Chapter 17 Brocade DCX 8510-4 Hardware Reference Manual
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Preparing for the WWN card replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Chapter 18 Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Preparing for the WWN card replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 19 Brocade DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Preparing for the WWN card replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•Brocade Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
How this document is organized
This document contains updates to the Fabric OS v7.0.x product manuals: These updates include
document fixes and changes covering new features. Table 1 below list the most recently released
Fabric OS v7.0.x product manuals.
TABLE 1 Documentation Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x
Publication Title Fabric OS Release Page Number Publication Date
Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 1 April 2011
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later No Updates April 2011
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 3 August 2011
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later
v7.0.1 and later
Updates on page 5
Updates on page 6
July 2011
December 2011
Fabric OS Command Reference v7.0.0
v7.0.1
Updates on page 9
Updates on page 7
April 2011
December 2011
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (LKM) v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 13 June 2011
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (RKM) v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 15 June 2011
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (SKM) v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 19 July 2011
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TEMS) v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 21 June 2011
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TKLM) v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 23 June 2011
Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 25 April 2011
Fabric OS Message Reference v7.0.0 and later No Updates April 2011
Fabric OS MIB Reference v7.0.0
v7.0.1
No Updates
Update on page 27
April 2011
December 2011
Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v7.0.0 and later Update on page 33 June 2011
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later Update on page 35 April 2011
FICON Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0 and later No Updates April 2011

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What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
•Updates for the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide have been added for the 7.0.1 release, to
correct the table “Configurable distances for Extended Fabrics”. Also, corrections were made
to the updates for the 7.0.0 release regarding this same table.
•Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 have been added to the Fabric OS Command
Reference chapter. The following command help pages have been updated or corrected:
-portCfgDPort
-portCfgShow
-portStatsShow
-rtLogTrace
•Chapter for the Fabric OS MIB Reference has been added to include the 7.0.1 release updates.
•Updates for the Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide have been added, for both
the Fabric OS v7.0.0 release and for the v7.0.1 release.
•The Web Tools Administrator’s Guide has been updated to include the 7.0.1 release updates.
•Chapters have been added for the following Hardware Reference Manuals:
-Brocade 6510
Several small changes for “Local time sychronization,” “Setting the date,” both in “Chapter
2, Brocade 6510 Installation and Configuration,” and the “General specifications” table in
“Appendix A, Brocade 6510 Specifications.”
-Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone
Significant changes to the “WWN card removal and replacement” procedure in “Chapter 5,
Removal and Replacement Procedures.”
-Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone
Significant changes to the “WWN card removal and replacement” procedure in “Chapter 5,
Removal and Replacement Procedures.”
-Brocade DCX Backbone
Significant changes to the “Removal and replacement of WWN card” procedure in
“Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures.”
-Brocade DCX-4S Backbone
Significant changes to the “Removal and replacement of WWN card” procedure in
“Chapter 5, Removal and Replacement Procedures.”
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide v7.0.0
v7.0.1
Updates on page 37
Updates on page 37
April 2011
December 2011
6510 Hardware Reference Manual v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 41 August 2011
DCX 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 43 July 2011
DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 45 July 2011
DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 47 March 2010
DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual v7.0.0 and later Updates on page 49 June 2010
TABLE 1 Documentation Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x (Continued)
Publication Title Fabric OS Release Page Number Publication Date

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