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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

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Viewing iSCSI Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
iSCSI Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
iSCSI Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
iSCSI Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4
iSCSI Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5
Virtual Initiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5
Exported FC Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6
iSCSI Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
Setting Up iSCSI Target Gateway Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
Chapter 14 Firmware Management
Determining Availability of Firmware-Specific Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-1
Using Built-in FTP Server and Firmware Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-3
Viewing the Firmware Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-3
Importing and Removing Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-4
Defining a Fabric Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6
Viewing SAN Firmware Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-8
Configuring File Transfer Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-9
Downloading Firmware to Multiple Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-11
Downloading Firmware with Firmware Repository Support . . . . . . . . . . 14-12
Downloading Firmware Using an External FTP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-13
Controlling Firmware Download Reboots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15
Downloading Firmware to HBAs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15
Downloading Firmware to XPath OS Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-18
Accessing Firmware When Changing the FTP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-18
Collecting FDMI Device Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-19
Rebooting Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-19
Creating a Reboot Group with Multiple Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-20
Creating Single-Switch Reboot Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21
Assigning Switches to a Reboot Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-22
Performing a Sequenced Reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-23

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Chapter 15 Managing Zones
Introduction to Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-1
Managing Zoning Offline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
Use Cases for Offline Zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3
Requirements for Offline Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3
Offline Zone Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
Managing Zoning with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-16
Chapter 16 Fabric Watch
Launching Fabric Watch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-1
Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2
Chapter 17 Managing Secure Fabrics
Enabling Secure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-1
Using the Policy Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-3
Configuring FCS Policy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-4
Configuring SCC Policy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-6
Configuring Telnet, RSNMP, WSNMP, HTTP, and API Policy Options. 17-7
Configuring DCC Policy Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-9
Configuring SES and MS Policy Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-11
Configuring Serial and Front Panel Policy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-13
Changing the Admin Security Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-15
Configuring No-Node WWN Zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-17
Adding a Switch to a Secure Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-17
Merging Secure Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-18
Using Telnet on a Secure Fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-19
Chapter 18 FICON and CUP
Identifying Switches with FMS Mode Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-1
Editing the Current Port Connectivity Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-2
Editing a Stored Port Connectivity Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-4
Identifying Port Zone Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-6

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Configuring Insistent Domain ID Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-6
Identifying Ports That Completed the RNID Exchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-8
Monitoring Link Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-9
Cascaded FICON Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-9
Configure a Fabric for Cascaded FICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-9
Merge Two Fabrics for Cascaded FICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-11
Chapter 19 Managing the FC-FC Routing Service
Requirements for Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-1
About Fibre Channel Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2
Setting Up FC-FC Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-3
Connecting Edge Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-4
Diagnosing Fabric Device Sharing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-5
Sharing Devices Between Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-6
Displaying Logical SANs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8
Displaying FC Router Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-9
Translate Domains and Virtual Device Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-11
FC-FC Routing and Secure Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12
FC-FC Routing and AD-Enabled Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12
Chapter 20 Using the FCIP Tunneling Service
About FCIP Tunneling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1
Viewing FCIP Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-2
Configuring an FCIP Tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-3
Chapter 21 Third-Party and Foreign Device Management
Accessing Third-Party Management Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1
Adding Third-Party Management Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2
Editing Third-Party Management Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-4
Running Third-Party Management Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-4
Examples of Launching Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-4
Importing Device WWNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-7

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Chapter 22 Creating Reports
Displaying the Switch Health Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-1
Chapter 23 Storing Data and Performing Backups
Data Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-1
Performing Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-1
Full Backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-2
Incremental Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-3
Chapter 24 Server Management Console
Introduction to Server Management Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-1
Launching the Server Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-2
Managing Fabric Manager Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-2
Changing Authentication Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-3
Backing Up and Restoring the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-5
Capturing Technical Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-6
Creating a Login Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-7
Changing Secure Communication Settings (HTTP or HTTPS). . . . . . . . . . . 24-8
Changing the Web Server Port Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-10
Chapter 25 Fabric Troubleshooting Tools
General Device Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-1
Fabric Merge Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-2
Event Message Severity Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-4
Trace Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-5
Chapter 26 Troubleshooting
Capturing Fabric Manager Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-1

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Checking the Client Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-3
Authentication Issues (Unable to Login) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-3
Client Access to Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-5
Client-Side CPU Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-5
Capturing/Reporting Client-Side Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-5
Checking Client/Server Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-5
No Client/Server Interaction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-6
Client/Server Version Mismatch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-6
Determine Whether Client or Server Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-6
Checking the Server Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-7
Server Cannot Access Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-7
Server-Side CPU Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-7
Statistics Not Collected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-7
Capturing/Reporting Server-Side Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-7
Checking Fabric Discovery Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-8
Capturing supportShow and supportSave Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-8
Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-10
Nodes Swapped With Another Switch Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-10
Lettering in Legend Unreadable When Printed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-10
Links Do Not Reconfigure After Disruptive Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-11
Nodes Overlap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-11

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Pinpointing Additional Problem Areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-11
Locating Fabric Manager License Key and Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . 26-11
Switches and Hosts Do Not Recognize HBA After Firmware Download to
HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-12
503 Service Unavailable/Overloaded Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-12
Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-12
Fabric Manager Client Does Not Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-12
Web Tools Pages Do Not Launch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-13
Wizard Hangs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-14
Performance Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-14
Fabric Manager Database File Is Too Large. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-14
Sequenced Reboot Does Not Show Correct Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-14
Stopping Fabric Manager Server on Solaris and Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-15
Changing Printers in Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-15
Changing the Time in Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-15
ODBC Driver Installer Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-15
fmsupportshow Output File is Empty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-16
Appendix A Repository
SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Switch Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Device Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Zone_config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
Zone Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
Zone Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
Appendix B Licenses for Third-Party Products
ABA Licence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

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Apache License. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
AXL License. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-6
Jason Hunter & Brett McLaughlin License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-7
LGPL License 2.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-8
LGPL License 2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-13
MIT License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-20
ONC RPC License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-20
Open SSL License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-21
Public Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-25
Reusable Objects/NetComponents License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-25
Sun Java License. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-26
Wolf Paulus License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-29
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About This Document
The Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide is written to help you, the storage area network (SAN)
administrator, to monitor, configure, and manage your SAN. This document is specific to Fabric
Manager version 5.2.0 and all switches running Brocade Fabric OS version 5.2.0 and XPath version
7.1.2c or later. For a detailed list of the firmware and hardware versions that are supported with specific
versions of Fabric Manager, refer to the Fabric Manager release notes.
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some switches
but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are not.
“About This Document” contains the following sections:
•“How This Document Is Organized,” next
•“Supported Hardware and Software” on page xxi
•“What’s New in This Document” on page xxi
•“Document Conventions” on page xxii
•“Additional Information” on page xxiii
•“Getting Technical Help” on page xxvi
•“Document Feedback” on page xxvii
How This Document Is Organized
This document is organized to help you find the particular information that you want as quickly and
easily as possible.
The document contains the following components:
•Chapter 1, “Introducing Fabric Manager,” provides an overview of Fabric Manager and lists the
supported operating systems.
•Chapter 2, “Installation,” provides information and instructions on installing the Fabric Manager
server on supported operating systems.
•Chapter 3, “Fabric Manager Client,” introduces you to the graphical user interface.
•Chapter 4, “Discovering and Customizing Fabrics,” includes common tasks that fabric
administrators perform.
•Chapter 5, “Viewing Fabric Topologies,” describes Fabric Manager’s Topology View.
•Chapter 6, “Displaying Name Server Information,” includes information in the Name Server table.
•Chapter 7, “Monitoring Alerts and Events,” provides information about different types of Fabric
Manager alerts and switch events, and how to manage and monitor them using Fabric Manager.

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•Chapter 8, “Using Performance Monitoring,” provides information about the Performance
Monitoring feature of Fabric Manager.
•Chapter 9, “Change Management,” describes how the Change Management feature works and can
be set up to create reports and alerts based on defined changes.
•Chapter 10, “Call Home Support,” provides information on how to enable, configure, and disable
the Fabric Manager Call Home feature.
•Chapter 11, “Switch Configuration and Management,” provides information saving baselines and
comparing switches against them. It also includes information on creating custom templates.
•Chapter 12, “Configuring Standard Security Features,” provides information about standard
security features, such as enabling secure communication, managing Admin Domains, and
managing ACLS.
•Chapter 13, “Managing the iSCSI Target Gateway,” provides information about iSCSI management
in Fabric Manager.
•Chapter 14, “Firmware Management,” provides information on downloading firmware to single
and multiple switches simultaneously. It also provides information about performing an FDMI-
capable HBA firmware download.
•Chapter 15, “Managing Zones,” provides information on how to create and manage zones, aliases,
and configurations in Fabric Manager.
•Chapter 16, “Fabric Watch,” provides information on how Fabric Watch works and how to
configure alarms and thresholds.
•Chapter 17, “Managing Secure Fabrics,” provides information on using the Security feature on
switches and fabrics, including configuring policies, managing secure fabrics, and changing secure
passwords.
•Chapter 18, “FICON and CUP,” provides information on how to manage FICON and FICON CUP
using Fabric Manager.
•Chapter 19, “Managing the FC-FC Routing Service,” provides information on how to use Fabric
Manager to work with Fibre Channel routers.
•Chapter 20, “Using the FCIP Tunneling Service,” provides information on how to configure an
FCIP tunnel.
•Chapter 21, “Third-Party and Foreign Device Management,” provides information on launching
third-party applications and importing foreign devices.
•Chapter 22, “Creating Reports,” provides information on creating Excel reports.
•Chapter 23, “Storing Data and Performing Backups,” provides information on storing user settings
and performing backups.
•Chapter 24, “Server Management Console,” provides information on using the Server Management
Console to stop and start Fabric Manager services, backup the Fabric Manager database, and
capture technical support information.
•Chapter 25, “Fabric Troubleshooting Tools,” provides information on the Device Diagnostics
wizard.
•Chapter 26, “Troubleshooting,” provides information on troubleshooting client and server issues.
•Appendix A, “Repository,” provides information on the database views of elements within Fabric
Manager so that they can be accessed by a CIM model.
•Appendix B, “Licenses for Third-Party Products,” lists the licenses for the third-party products that
are included as part of Fabric Manager.
•The index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.