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Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Publication Date: 10/31/06
Fabric Manager
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric Manager 5.2.0
Supporting Fabric OS v5.2.0

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Document History
The following table lists all versions of the Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide.
Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Date
BrocadeFabricManagerUser’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
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
FabricManagerAdministrator’s
Guide 53-0000823-10 Editorial & structural changes, including new feature support; also
revised installation and overview
sections and book title.
April 2005
FabricManagerAdministrator’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
FabricManagerAdministrator’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

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Contents
About This Document
How This Document Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Supported Hardware and Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
What’s New in This Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Document Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Getting Technical Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Document Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Chapter 1 Introducing Fabric Manager
Overview of Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Browser and Platform Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Fabric and Switch Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Administrative Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Chapter 2 Installation
Planning for the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Installation and Troubleshooting Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Upgrading Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Licence Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Upgrading from the Evaluation Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Installing the Fabric Manager Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Installing Fabric Manager Server on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Installing Fabric Manager Server on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Installing Fabric Manager Server on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

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Copying an Installation from Server to Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Uninstalling the Fabric Manager Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client
Launching Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Uninstalling the Fabric Manager Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Understanding the Fabric Manager Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Scope Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
View Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Task Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Information Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Refreshing the Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Selecting Elements and Accessing Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Customizing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Displaying Fabrics by IP Address, Domain ID, WWN, and Name . . . . . 3-18
Customizing Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Filtering Elements in a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Customizing Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
Resizing Panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
Chapter 4 Discovering and Customizing Fabrics
Discovering a Fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Discovering a Single Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Discovering Multiple Fabrics (Subnet Scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Logging In to Multiple Switches Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Monitoring Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Changing the Seed Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Deleting a Fabric from Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

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Renaming Fabric Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Renaming a Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Renaming a Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Renaming a Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Renaming a Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Importing Device Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Working With Switch and Port Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Understanding the Groups View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Creating and Populating Switch Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Editing a Switch Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18
Creating Port Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Editing a Port Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Deleting a Switch or Port Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Chapter 5 Viewing Fabric Topologies
Understanding the View Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
View Panel Toolbar Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Viewing Tool Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Selecting Items in the Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Changing the Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Saving View Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Topology Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Displaying Monitored Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Displaying Switch Interconnectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Displaying Attached Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Displaying Zone Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Viewing Link Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
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Chapter 7 Monitoring Alerts and Events
Monitoring Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Viewing Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Identifying Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Filtering Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Acknowledging Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Resolving Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Deleting Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Configuring Alert Display Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Monitoring Fabric Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Viewing Fabric Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Filtering Fabric Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Configuring Notification Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Chapter 8 Using Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitoring Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Enabling Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
Disabling Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7
Generating Custom Reports and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7
Creating Custom Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Creating Custom Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
Creating and Using Report Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
Creating Templates for Reports and Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
Generating Reports and Graphs from Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16
Saving Performance Monitor Reports or Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17
Printing Performance Monitor Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17
Exporting Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18
Displaying Saved Reports and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18
Deleting Reports and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
Editing Performance Monitor Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
Displaying Performance Monitor Reports in External Applications . . . . . . . 8-20

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Chapter 9 Change Management
Using Change Management Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1
Creating a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Cloning a Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Editing a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Deleting a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Using Snapshots and Change Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Displaying a Change Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Creating Snapshots on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Comparing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
Exporting Snapshot and Change Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
Exporting Switch Configuration Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Displaying Change Reports in External Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Printing Snapshot and Change Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Changing Baseline Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Chapter 10 Call Home Support
About Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1
Call Home Email Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Call Home External Executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Configuring Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Editing Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
Enabling or Disabling Call Home Globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
Monitoring Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
Chapter 11 Switch Configuration and Management
Viewing Switch Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
Viewing Port Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
Synchronizing Date and Time Across a Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5
Opening a Telnet Session for a Nonsecure Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
Enabling/Disabling Switches and Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6

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Configuring Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
Swapping Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8
Administering ISL Trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
Administering License Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Exporting License Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Importing and Restoring License Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
Removing License Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13
Using Baseline Configurations for Configuration Management . . . . . . . . . . 11-13
Saving a Baseline Configuration to a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-14
Comparing Switches to a Baseline File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16
Comparing Switches to a Baseline Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Downloading a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
Customizing Baseline Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-21
Saving Switch Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-23
Checking the Physical Health of a Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-25
Replacing a Switch in the Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-26
Chapter 12 Configuring Standard Security Features
Managing Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1
Enabling and Disabling Switch Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1
Changing Admin Password on Multiple Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
Enabling Secure Communication Over HTTPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
Managing the Truststore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3
Managing Administrative Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
Requirements for Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
Launching the Admin Domain Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5
Managing Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6
Propagating RADIUS Configuration Across Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7
Chapter 13 Managing the iSCSI Target Gateway
About the iSCSI Target Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1