Brocade Communications Systems SN3000B Service manual

53-1002152-01
29 April 2011
®
Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0

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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

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
Network Advisor.
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
Brocade Network Advisor.
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
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1002152-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Fabric OS 7.0.0.
April 2011
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 Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor . . . 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 . . . . . . 9
Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Persisting GUI preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Free Professional Management tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting a slot-level IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Viewing IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Switch restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
WWN-based Persistent PID assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Assigning slots for a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Universal time-based licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Launching the High Availability window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Synchronizing services on the CP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Initiating a CP failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . . 52
Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . .52
Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Viewing logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Admin Domain configuration maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Chapter 5 Managing Administrative Domains
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Saving local Admin Domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Creating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Adding ports or switches to the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Modifying Admin Domain members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Renaming Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Deleting Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Clearing the Admin Domain configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 6 Managing Ports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Opening the Port Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Allowed port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ingress rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Port beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?. . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Configuring NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Diagnostic ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Determining if a port index was swapped
with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Configuring ALPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Configuring Port Octet Speed Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Configuring CSCTL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Inband Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
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

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Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Printing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Modifying graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Chapter 9 Administering Zoning
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Basic zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Traffic Isolation zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
LSAN zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
QoS zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Opening the Zone Admin window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Refreshing Zone Admin window information . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Selecting a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .124
Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Cloning zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones . . .128

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Zone configuration and zoning database management . . . . . . . .128
Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . .130
Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Cloning zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without
opening the Zone Admin window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Viewing detailed information about the enabled
zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .134
Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones. . . . . . . . . . .134
Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Clearing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Zone configuration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Chapter 10 Working with Diagnostic Features
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
How a trace dump is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Disabling automatic trace uploads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Viewing detailed fan hardware status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Viewing the temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Viewing the power supply status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Defining Switch Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Port LED interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Port icon colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Chapter 11 Using the FC-FC Routing Service
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Fibre Channel Routing overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Setting up FC-FC routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
FC-FC routing management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Opening the FC Routing module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

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Viewing EX_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Configuring an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Editing the configuration of an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Configuring FCR router port cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Viewing LSAN zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Viewing LSAN devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Configuring the backbone fabric ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Chapter 12 Using the Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Access Gateway overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Restricted access in the Port Administration window . . . . . . .155
Enabling Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Viewing the Access Gateway settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Editing or viewing port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Deleting port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Defining custom primary F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Defining custom static F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Defining custom WWN-N port mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Access Gateway policy modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Modifying Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . .161
Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Chapter 13 Administering Fabric Watch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Chapter 14 Administering Extended Fabrics
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Extended link buffer allocation overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Configuring a port for long distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Chapter 15 Routing Traffic
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

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Routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Viewing fabric shortest path first routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Configuring dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Lossless dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Configuring the link cost for a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Chapter 16 Configuring Standard Security Features
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
User-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Viewing user account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Creating user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Deleting user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Changing user account parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Maintaining passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
User-defined roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Creating a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Editing a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Access control list policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Creating an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Editing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Deleting all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
Activating all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
Distributing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
Moving an FCS policy switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Configuring Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Authentication policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Configuring authentication policies for E_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .191
Configuring authentication policies for F_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .192
Distributing authentication policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
Re-authenticating policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
Setting a shared secret key pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Modifying a shared secret key pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Setting the Switch Policy Authentication mode . . . . . . . . . . . .193
SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Setting SNMP trap levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Changing the systemGroup configuration parameters . . . . . .194
Setting SNMPv1 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Setting SNMPv3 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Changing the access control configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

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RADIUS management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Enabling and disabling RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Configuring RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Modifying the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Modifying the RADIUS server order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Removing a RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Active Directory service management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Enabling Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Modifying Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Removing Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
IPsec concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
Transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
IPsec header options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Basic IPsec configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Internet Key Exchange concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
IPsec over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
FCIP Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
Accessing the IPsec Policies dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
Establishing an IKE policy for an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
Establishing an IPsec policy for an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . .207
IPsec over management ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Enabling the Ethernet IPsec policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208
Establishing an IKE policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208
Creating a security association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Creating an SA proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Adding an IPsec transform policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Adding an IPsec selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Manually creating an SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Editing an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
Deleting an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
Establishing authentication policies for HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Chapter 17 Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Enabling port-based routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . .217
FMS parameter configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218
Configuring FMS mode parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

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Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
Viewing Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Modifying Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations . . . . . . . . . . .221
Activating an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . .223
Copying an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration. . . . . . . . . . .223
Deleting an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . .224
CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
Viewing CUP logical path configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
Configuring CUP logical paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations . .225
Configuring LIRRs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226
Chapter 18 Configuring FCoE with Web Tools
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Web Tools and FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor . . . . .228
Port information that is unique to FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228
Switch administration and FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
FC0E configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
Quality of Service configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230
Editing the DCB map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230
Adding a traffic class map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
LLDP-DCBX configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231
Configuring global LLDP characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232
Adding an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
Configuring DCB interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Configuring a link aggregation group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236
Configuring FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237
Displaying FCoE port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
Displaying LAG information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Displaying FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Displaying QoS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Displaying LLDP-DCBX information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
Displaying DCB interface statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
Configuring a DCB interface from the Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . .240
Configuring a DCB interface from the Port Admin panel . . . . . . . . 241
Enabling and disabling a LAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

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Enabling and disabling LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control . . . . . . . . .242
Enabling and disabling FCoE ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242
Chapter 19 Limitations
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
General Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
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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 Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 6 USB port storage management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 7 Right-click menu for ports (from Switch Explorer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 8 Switch Administration window, Switch tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Figure 9 Blade tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure 10 High Availability window, CP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Figure 11 Information dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Figure 12 Fabric ID selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Figure 13 Port swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Figure 14 Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Figure 15 ALPA Map selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Figure 16 ALPA Map dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Figure 17 FC Explorer dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Figure 18 Port Octet Speed Combination dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Figure 19 Trunking tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Figure 20 Accessing performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Figure 21 Canvas of six performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Figure 22 Select Ports for customizing the Switch Throughput Utilization graph . . . . . . 110
Figure 23 Zone Admin window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Figure 24 Sample zoning database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Figure 25 Temperature Sensor States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Figure 26 Fan States window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Figure 27 Power States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Figure 28 Switch Report window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Figure 29 Switch Status Policy dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Figure 30 Switch Explorer view for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Figure 31 Access Gateway Auto Rebalancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Figure 32 Extended Fabric tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Figure 33 Routing tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Figure 34 User tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Figure 35 Add User Account dialog box (VF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Figure 36 Add User Account dialog box (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

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Figure 37 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Figure 38 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Figure 39 Transport mode and tunnel mode comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Figure 40 AH header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Figure 41 ESP header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Figure 42 Edit Allow / Prohibit Matrix dialog box swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Figure 43 Allow / Prohibit Matrix Configuration dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Figure 44 Switch RNID information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Figure 45 Switch Administration DCB subtabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Figure 46 FCoE Ports tab, Port Administration panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

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Tables
Table 1 Basic Web Tools features and EGM licensed features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Table 2 Web Tools functionality moved to Brocade Network Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Table 3 Certified and tested platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 4 Supported platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 5 Predefined Web Tools roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table 6 Polling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Table 7 Switches that support WWN-based Persistent PID on Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Table 8 Event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Table 9 Ports enabled with POD licenses and DPOD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Table 10 Port octet speed combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Table 11 Basic performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 12 Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 13 Supported port types for Brocade switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Table 14 QoS zone name prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Table 15 Long-distance settings and license requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Table 16 User role and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Table 17 Relevant RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Table 18 Encryption algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Table 19 Hash algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Table 20 FMS mode parameter descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Table 21 Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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