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Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v7.1.0

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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
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

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
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1002756-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Fabric OS 7.1.0.
December 2012
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

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Contents
Figures
Tables
About This Document
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation. . . 7
Installing patches on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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

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Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Technical SupportSave logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface
Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Persisting GUI preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Tabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Free Professional Management tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches
Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting a slot-level IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Viewing IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling and disabling switch persistent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting a principal switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Switch restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
WWN-based Persistent PID assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Assigning slots for a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Universal time-based licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Launching the High Availability window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Synchronizing services on the CP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Initiating a CP failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . . 51
Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Viewing logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 5 Managing Ports
Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Opening the Port Admin tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Port Admin tab components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Allowed port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Ingress rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Port beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Considerations for enabling or disabling a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Configuring NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Diagnostic ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Determining if a port index was swapped
with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Configuring ALPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configuring port octet speed combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Configuring CSCTL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Configuring compression and encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Enabling/disabling encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Enabling/disabling compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Displaying compression ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Forward Error Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Inband Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
GigE port modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 6 Enabling ISL Trunking
ISL Trunking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Viewing trunk group information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 7 Monitoring Performance
Performance Monitor overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Basic monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Advanced monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Predefined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
User-defined graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Canvas configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Opening the Performance Monitor window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Creating basic performance monitor graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Advanced performance monitoring graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Creating SID-DID Performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Creating the SCSI vs. IP Traffic graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Creating SCSI command graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Printing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Modifying graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Chapter 8 Administering Zoning
Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Basic zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Traffic Isolation zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
LSAN zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
QoS zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Opening the Zone Admin window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

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Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Refreshing Zone Administration window information . . . . . . .108
Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Selecting a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .110
Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Cloning zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones . . .114
Zone configuration and zoning database management . . . . . . . .115
Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . .116
Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Cloning zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without
opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Viewing detailed information about the enabled
zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .120
Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones. . . . . . . . . . .121
Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Clearing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Zone configuration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Chapter 9 Working with Diagnostic Features
Trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
How a trace dump is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Disabling automatic trace uploads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Viewing detailed fan hardware status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Viewing the temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Viewing the power supply status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Defining Switch Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

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Port LED interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Port icon colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Chapter 10 Using the FC-FC Routing Service
Fibre Channel Routing overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Setting up FC-FC routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
FC-FC routing management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Opening the FC Routing module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Viewing EX-Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Configuring an EX-Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Editing the configuration of an EX-Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Configuring FCR router port cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Viewing LSAN zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Viewing LSAN devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Configuring the backbone fabric ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Chapter 11 Using the Access Gateway
Access Gateway overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Restricted access in the Port Admin tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Enabling Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Viewing the Access Gateway settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Editing or viewing port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Deleting port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Defining custom primary F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Defining custom static F-N port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Defining custom WWN-N port mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Access Gateway policy modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Modifying Path Failover and Failback policies . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . .146
Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Chapter 12 Administering Fabric Watch
Fabric Watch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

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Chapter 13 Administering Extended Fabrics
Extended link buffer allocation overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Configuring a port for long distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Chapter 14 Routing Traffic
Routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Viewing fabric shortest path first routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Configuring dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Lossless dynamic load sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Specifying frame order delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Configuring the link cost for a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Chapter 15 Configuring Standard Security Features
User-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Viewing user account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Creating user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Deleting user-defined accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Changing user account parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Maintaining passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
User-defined roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Creating a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Editing a user-defined role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Access control list policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Creating an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Editing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Deleting all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Activating all SCC, DCC, or FCS policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Distributing an SCC, DCC, or FCS policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Moving an FCS policy switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Configuring Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Authentication policy configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
Configuring authentication policies for E_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .178
Configuring authentication policies for F_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . .178
Distributing authentication policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Re-authenticating policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Setting a shared secret key pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Modifying a shared secret key pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Setting the Switch Policy Authentication mode . . . . . . . . . . . .180

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SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Setting SNMP trap levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Changing the systemGroup configuration parameters . . . . . .181
Setting SNMPv1 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Setting SNMPv3 configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
Changing the access control configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
RADIUS management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
Enabling and disabling RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Configuring RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Modifying the RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Modifying the RADIUS server order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Removing a RADIUS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Active Directory service management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Enabling Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Modifying Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Removing Active Directory service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
TACACS+ management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Enabling and disabling TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Configuring TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Modifying TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Removing TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
IPsec concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188
Transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
IPsec header options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Basic IPsec configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
Internet Key Exchange concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
IPsec over management ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Enabling the Ethernet IPsec policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194
Establishing an IKE policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Creating a security association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Creating an SA proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
Adding an IPsec transform policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Adding an IPsec selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197
Manually creating an SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198
Editing an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Deleting an IKE or IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Establishing authentication policies for HBAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
Chapter 16 Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
Enabling port-based routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . .203
FMS parameter configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
Configuring FMS mode parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204
Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

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Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
Viewing Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Modifying Allow / Prohibit Matrix configurations . . . . . . . . . . .207
Activating an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . .209
Copying an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration. . . . . . . . . . .209
Deleting an Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . .210
CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Viewing CUP logical path configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Configuring CUP logical paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations . .211
Configuring LIRRs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212
Chapter 17 Configuring FCoE with Web Tools
Web Tools and FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Web Tools, the EGM license, and Brocade Network Advisor . . . . .214
Port information that is unique to FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
Switch administration and FCoE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
FC0E configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Quality of Service configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Editing the DCB map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
Adding a traffic class map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216
LLDP-DCBX configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Configuring global LLDP characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Adding an LLDP profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
Configuring DCB interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220
Configuring a link aggregation group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Configuring VLANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
Configuring FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Displaying FCoE port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223
Displaying LAG information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Displaying FCoE login groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Displaying QoS information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Displaying LLDP-DCBX information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Displaying DCB interface statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Configuring a DCB interface from the Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . .226
Configuring a DCB interface from the Port Admin panel . . . . . . . .226
Enabling and disabling a LAG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226
Enabling and disabling LLDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227

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Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control . . . . . . . . .227
Enabling and disabling FCoE ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Chapter 18 Limitations
General Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229
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Figures
Figure 1 Configuring Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 2 Default Java for browsers option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 3 Web Tools interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Figure 4 Virtual Fabric login option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 5 Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 6 USB port storage management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Figure 7 Right-click menu for ports (from Switch Explorer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Figure 8 Switch Administration window, Switch tab, Basic mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Figure 9 Blade tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Figure 10 High Availability window, CP tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Figure 11 Logical ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Figure 12 Information dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Figure 13 Fabric ID selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Figure 14 Port swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Figure 15 Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Figure 16 ALPA Map selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Figure 17 ALPA Map dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Figure 18 FC Explorer dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Figure 19 Port Octet Speed Combination dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Figure 20 Trunking tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Figure 21 Accessing performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Figure 22 Canvas of six performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Figure 23 Select Ports for customizing the Switch Throughput Utilization graph . . . . . . . 96
Figure 24 Zone Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Figure 25 Port WWN icon for host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Figure 26 Port WWN icon for device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Figure 27 Sample zoning database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Figure 28 Temperature Sensor States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Figure 29 Fan States window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Figure 30 Power States window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Figure 31 Switch Report window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Figure 32 Switch Status Policy dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Figure 33 Switch Explorer view for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Figure 34 Access Gateway Auto Rebalancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Figure 35 Extended Fabric tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Figure 36 Routing tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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Figure 37 User tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Figure 38 Add User Account dialog box (VF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Figure 39 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Figure 40 Switch Admin:Add User Defined Role dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Figure 41 Transport mode and tunnel mode comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Figure 42 AH header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Figure 43 ESP header in transport mode and tunnel mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Figure 44 Edit Allow / Prohibit Matrix dialog box swapped label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Figure 45 Allow / Prohibit Matrix Configuration dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Figure 46 Switch RNID information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 47 Switch Administration DCB subtabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Figure 48 FCoE Ports tab, Port Administration panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

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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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Table 4 Supported platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 5 Predefined Web Tools roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table 6 Polling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Table 7 Switches that support WWN-based Persistent PID on Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Table 8 Event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Table 9 Ports enabled with POD licenses and DPOD feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Table 10 Port octet speed combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Table 11 Basic performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Table 12 Advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Table 13 Supported port types for Brocade switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Table 14 QoS zone name prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Table 15 Long-distance settings and license requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Table 16 User role and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Table 17 Relevant RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Table 18 Encryption algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Table 19 Hash algorithm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Table 20 FMS mode parameter descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Table 21 Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

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