Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 9.0.x Administration Guide 30 March 2021 Broadcom FOS-90x-Admin-AG104 30 March 2021 FOS-90x-Admin-AG104 Administration Guide Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 9.0.x Table of Contents Copyright Statement.......................................................................................................................... 25 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................26 About This Document....................................................................................................................................................26 Supported Hardware and Software.............................................................................................................................. 26 ® Contacting Technical Support for Your Brocade Product....................................................................................... 27 Document Feedback...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Understanding Fibre Channel Services...........................................................................................28 Fibre Channel Services Overview................................................................................................................................ 28 Management Server....................................................................................................................................................... 28 Application Server..................................................................................................................................................... 29 Platform Services........................................................................................................................................................... 29 Platform Services and Virtual Fabrics...................................................................................................................... 29 Enabling Platform Services.......................................................................................................................................30 Disabling Platform Services...................................................................................................................................... 30 Management Server Database...................................................................................................................................... 30 Displaying the Management Server ACL................................................................................................................. 30 Adding a Member to the ACL...................................................................................................................................31 Deleting a Member from the ACL............................................................................................................................ 32 Viewing the Contents of the Management Server Database................................................................................... 33 Clearing the Management Server Database............................................................................................................ 34 Topology Discovery....................................................................................................................................................... 34 Displaying Topology Discovery Status......................................................................................................................34 Enabling Topology Discovery....................................................................................................................................34 Disabling Topology Discovery................................................................................................................................... 34 Device Login................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Principal Switch......................................................................................................................................................... 35 E_Port Login Process............................................................................................................................................... 36 Fabric Login Process................................................................................................................................................ 36 Port Login Process....................................................................................................................................................36 RSCNs.......................................................................................................................................................................36 Duplicate Port World Wide Name.............................................................................................................................37 Device Recovery................................................................................................................................................ 37 High Availability of the Daemon Process....................................................................................................................37 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks............................................................................................39 Fabric OS Overview....................................................................................................................................................... 39 Command Line Interface............................................................................................................................................... 39 Broadcom FOS-90x-Admin-AG104 2 FOS-90x-Admin-AG104 Administration Guide Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 9.0.x Console Sessions Using the Serial Port.................................................................................................................. 39 Connecting to Fabric OS through the Serial Port.................................................................................................... 39 Management Session................................................................................................................................................40 Rules for Management Connections................................................................................................................. 41 Connecting to Fabric OS Using the Management Interface............................................................................. 41 Configuring the Idle Session Timeout............................................................................................................... 42 Getting Help on a Command....................................................................................................................................42 Viewing the History of Command Line Entries.........................................................................................................43 CLI History......................................................................................................................................................... 43 clihistory --show................................................................................................................................................. 44 clihistory --showuser username......................................................................................................................... 44 clihistory --showall..............................................................................................................................................44 clihistory --help................................................................................................................................................... 45 Considerations When Viewing CLI Logs...........................................................................................................45 Using fosexec to Run Commands on the Remote Switch or Domain..................................................................... 45 Modification of the Default Password..........................................................................................................................48 Default Account Password........................................................................................................................................48 Changing the Default Account Password of the Switch...........................................................................................49 Switch Ethernet Interface.............................................................................................................................................. 49 Brocade Directors......................................................................................................................................................49 Brocade Switches......................................................................................................................................................49 Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet 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