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Contents Preface...................................................................................................................................19 Document conventions....................................................................................19 Text formatting conventions................................................................ 19 Command syntax conventions............................................................ 19 Notes, cautions, and warnings............................................................ 20 Brocade resources.......................................................................................... 21 Contacting Brocade Technical Support...........................................................21 Document feedback........................................................................................ 22 About This Document..............................................................................................................23 Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 23 What's new in this document...........................................................................24 Understanding Fibre Channel Services ....................................................................................27 Fibre Channel services overview.................................................................... 27 Management server........................................................................................ 28 Platform services.............................................................................................28 Platform services and Virtual Fabrics..................................................28 Enabling platform services.................................................................. 29 Disabling platform services ................................................................ 29 Management server database........................................................................ 29 Displaying the management server ACL.............................................30 Adding a member to the ACL..............................................................30 Deleting a member from the ACL .......................................................31 Viewing the contents of the management server database ............... 32 Clearing the management server database........................................ 32 Topology discovery......................................................................................... 33 Displaying topology discovery status.................................................. 33 Enabling topology discovery .............................................................. 33 Disabling topology discovery...............................................................33 Device login.....................................................................................................34 Principal switch................................................................................... 35 E_Port login process .......................................................................... 35 Fabric login process ........................................................................... 35 Port login process............................................................................... 35 RSCNs................................................................................................ 36 Duplicate Port World Wide Name....................................................... 36 High availability of daemon processes............................................................36 FL_Port and arbitrated loop support............................................................... 37 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks..................................................................................... 39 Fabric OS overview.........................................................................................39 Fabric OS command line interface..................................................................40 Console sessions using the serial port................................................40 Telnet or SSH sessions.......................................................................41 Getting help on a command................................................................ 42 Viewing a history of command line entries..........................................43 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 3 53-1003509-02 Using fosexec to run commands on remote switches or domains....45 Password modification.................................................................................. 47 Default account passwords...............................................................47 The switch Ethernet interface .......................................................................48 Brocade Backbones..........................................................................48 Brocade switches..............................................................................48 Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface.........................................49 Management Ethernet port bonding................................................. 49 Displaying the network interface settings..........................................50 Static Ethernet addresses.................................................................51 DHCP activation................................................................................52 IPv6 autoconfiguration...................................................................... 54 Date and time settings.................................................................................. 55 Setting the date and time.................................................................. 55 Time zone settings............................................................................56 Network Time Protocol......................................................................57 Domain IDs................................................................................................... 59 Domain ID issues..............................................................................59 Displaying the domain IDs................................................................ 59 Setting the domain ID........................................................................60 Switch names................................................................................................61 Customizing the switch name........................................................... 61 Chassis names..............................................................................................61 Customizing chassis names..............................................................61 Fabric name.................................................................................................. 62 Configuring the fabric name..............................................................62 High availability considerations for fabric names.............................. 62 Upgrade and downgrade considerations for fabric names............... 62 Switch activation and deactivation................................................................ 62 Disabling a switch............................................................................. 63 Enabling a switch.............................................................................. 63 Disabling a chassis........................................................................... 63 Enabling a chassis............................................................................ 64 Switch and Backbone shutdown..................................................................