Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Service manual

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November 24, 2008
Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v6.2.0

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Document History
The following table lists all versions of the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide.
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 Data Center
Fabric Manager (DCFM).
July 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s
Guide
53-1001133-01 Updates to add support for
Brocade Encryption Switch and
FS8-18 Encryption Blade.
August 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s
Guide
53-1001194-01 Updates to add support for Virtual
Fabrics, IPSec, and consistency
with DCFM.
November 2008
Document Title Publication
Number
Summary of Changes Publication
Date

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s new in this release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Setting Refresh Frequency for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Java plug-in configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers . . . . . 10
Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Changes for consistency with DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Free Professional Management Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Refreshing the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring IP and netmask information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Setting up IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting a slot-level IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Switch rebooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Launching the High Availability Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Synchronizing Services on the CP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Initiating a CP Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . .60
Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Viewing Logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Admin Domain configuration maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

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Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Encryption firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SAS and SA firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Switch configurations for mixed fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Enabling interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 5 Managing Your Ports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Opening the Port Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Allowed Port Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
FC Fastwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Considerations for port enable and disable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Enabling and disabling NPIV ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Determining if a port index was swapped
with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 6 Managing Administrative Domains
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Administrative domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Enabling administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Saving local Admin Domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102