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Fabric Manager
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric Manager 5.4.0
Supporting Fabric OS 6.0.0

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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date
Brocade Fabric Manager User’s
Guide, v3.0
53-0000204-01 N/A October 2001
Brocade Fabric Manager User’s
Guide, v4.0
53-0000823-02 N/A April 2003
Brocade Fabric Manager User’s
Guide, v4.1.0
53-0000823-04 N/A September
2003
Brocade Fabric Manager User’s
Guide, v4.1.1
53-0000823-05 Editorial & structural changes, aligned
information with online help information,
updated Call Home feature information,
updated link icons, additional troubleshooting
information.
December
2003
Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-06 Updated to include switch specific information. March 2004

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Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-07 Editorial & structural changes, included new
feature support since Fabric Manager 4.1.1,
updated graphics, updated troubleshooting
information.
May 2004
Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-08 Editorial & structural changes, device node
and device port name support, and minor
adjustment for database change.
July 2004
Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-09 Editorial & structural changes, added support
for SilkWorm 4100, 4 Gbit/sec support, and
end-to-end performance monitoring; also
revised installation, firmware download, fabric
merge, admin password on multiple switches,
and enable security sections.
October 2004
Fabric Manager Administrator’s
Guide
53-0000823-10 Editorial & structural changes, including new
feature support; also revised installation and
overview sections and book title.
April 2005
Fabric Manager Administrator’s
Guide
53-1000042-01 Added support for SilkWorm 4900, 7500, and
FR4-18i port blade; added support for Fabric
OS v5.1.0 features, such as FCIP Tunneling
and FC-FC Routing Service.
February 2006
Fabric Manager Administrator’s
Guide
53-1000196-01 Added support for FR4-16IP port blade; added
support for Fabric OS v5.2.0 features, such as
Admin Domains and iSCSI; added offline
zoning. Revised Fabric Manager client
information throughout.
October 2006
Fabric Manager Administrator’s
Guide
53-1000443-01 Rebranded; added new features for 5.3.0
release such as Access Gateway visibility,
MetaSAN View, FCIP tunneling; improved
scalability, updated screens.
March 2007
Fabric Manager Administrator’s
Guide
53-1000610-01, Added information for newly supported
feautres in v5.4 features such as ICL support,
IPv6 support, VLAN Tag support, FICON
Emulation parameters support, and updated
screens.
October 2007
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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Chapter 1 Introducing Fabric Manager
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Overview of Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Browser and platform requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fabric and switch access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Administrative Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2 Installation
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Planning for the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installation and troubleshooting information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Upgrading Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
License keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Upgrading from the evaluation version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the Fabric Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing Fabric Manager server on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing Fabric Manager server on Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing Fabric Manager server on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Copying an installation from server to server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Uninstalling the Fabric Manager server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Launching Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Notes on logging in to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Uninstalling the Fabric Manager client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Understanding the Fabric Manager layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Scope panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
View panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Task panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Information panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Status indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Refreshing the window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Selecting elements and accessing modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Customizing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Displaying fabrics by IP address, domain ID, WWN, and name 52
Customizing tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Filtering elements in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Customizing tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Resizing panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Resetting to Default Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuring Event Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 4 Discovering and Customizing Fabrics
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Discovering a fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
About FCS Policy and seed switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Discovering a single fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Discovering multiple fabrics (subnet scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Logging in to multiple switches simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Monitoring fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Changing the seed switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Deleting a fabric from Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

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Renaming fabric components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Renaming a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Renaming a switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Renaming a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Renaming a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Importing device names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Working with switch and port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Understanding the groups view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating and populating switch groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Editing a switch group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Editing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Deleting a switch or port group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 5 Viewing Fabric Topologies
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Understanding the View panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
View panel toolbar items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Viewing tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Selecting items in the topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Changing the layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Saving view preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Topology views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Displaying monitored fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Displaying backbone and edge fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Displaying switch interconnectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Displaying attached devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Displaying zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Viewing link information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 6 Displaying Name Server Information
Chapter 7 Monitoring Alerts and Events
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

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Monitoring Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Viewing alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Identifying alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Filtering alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Acknowledging alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Resolving alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Deleting alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Configuring alert display options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Monitoring fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Viewing fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Viewing all events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Filtering fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Configuring notification parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Chapter 8 Using Performance Monitoring
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Overview of performance monitoring in Fabric Manager . . . . . . . .111
Performance monitoring components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Configuring port data collection and alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Enabling end-to-end monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Disabling performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Generating custom reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Creating custom reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Creating real time graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Creating and using report templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Creating templates for reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Generating reports and graphs from templates . . . . . . . . . . .129
Saving Performance Monitor reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Printing Performance Monitor reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Exporting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Displaying saved reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Deleting reports and graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Editing End-to-End Monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Displaying End-to-End Monitor reports in external applications . .133
Chapter 9 Change Management
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

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Overview of change management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Using change management profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Creating a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Cloning a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Editing a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Deleting a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Using snapshots and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Displaying a change report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Creating snapshots on demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Comparing snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Exporting snapshot and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Exporting switch configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Displaying change reports in external applications. . . . . . . . .144
Printing snapshot and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Changing baseline snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Chapter 10 Call Home Support
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
About call home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Call home e-mail messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Call home external executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Call home modem support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Configuring call home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Editing configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Enabling or disabling call home globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Monitoring call home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Chapter 11 Switch Configuration and Management
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Viewing port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Synchronizing date and time across a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Opening a Telnet session for a nonsecure switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Enabling and disabling switches and ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Configuring ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Swapping ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

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Administering ISL trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Administering license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Exporting license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Importing and restoring license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
Removing license keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Using configuration management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Switch configuration backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Viewing the configuration repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Replicating configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Replicating a switch SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Replicating a switch Fabric Watch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . 174
Replicating an entire switch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Saving switch configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Replacing a switch in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
Configuring Asset Polling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Configuring a Domain ID on a phantom switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Chapter 12 Managing Access Gateway-moded Switches
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Introduction to Access Gateway Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
Showing Access Gateway-moded switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Discovering an Access Gateway switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Viewing Access Gateway moded switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
Backing up Access Gateway-moded switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Configuring an access gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Performing a Firmware Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Chapter 13 Configuring Standard Security Features
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
A note about security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Managing passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Enabling and disabling switch passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Changing admin password on multiple switches . . . . . . . . . .188
Enabling secure communication over HTTPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189
Managing the truststore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190