Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 8.2.x Administration Guide 12 October 2020 Broadcom FOS-82x-AG107 12 October 2020 FOS-82x-AG107 Administration Guide Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 8.2.x Table of Contents Copyright Statement.......................................................................................................................... 25 Introduction.........................................................................................................................................26 About This Document....................................................................................................................................................26 What Is New in This Document....................................................................................................................................26 Supported Hardware and Software.............................................................................................................................. 26 ® Contacting Technical Support for Your Brocade Product....................................................................................... 27 Document Feedback...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Understanding Fibre Channel Services...........................................................................................29 Fibre Channel Services Overview................................................................................................................................ 29 Management Server....................................................................................................................................................... 29 Application Server..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Platform Services........................................................................................................................................................... 30 Platform Services and Virtual Fabrics...................................................................................................................... 30 Enabling Platform Services.......................................................................................................................................31 Disabling Platform Services...................................................................................................................................... 31 Management Server Database...................................................................................................................................... 31 Displaying the Management Server ACL................................................................................................................. 31 Adding a Member to the ACL...................................................................................................................................32 Deleting a Member from the ACL............................................................................................................................ 33 Viewing the Contents of the Management Server Database................................................................................... 34 Clearing the Management Server Database............................................................................................................ 34 Topology Discovery....................................................................................................................................................... 35 Displaying Topology Discovery Status......................................................................................................................35 Enabling Topology Discovery....................................................................................................................................35 Disabling Topology Discovery................................................................................................................................... 35 Device Login................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Principal Switch......................................................................................................................................................... 36 E_Port Login Process............................................................................................................................................... 37 Fabric Login process.................................................................................................................................................37 Port Login Process....................................................................................................................................................37 RSCNs.......................................................................................................................................................................37 Duplicate Port World Wide Name.............................................................................................................................38 Device Recovery................................................................................................................................................ 38 High Availability of Daemon Process.......................................................................................................................... 38 FL_Port and Arbitrated Loop Support.........................................................................................................................39 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks............................................................................................40 Broadcom FOS-82x-AG107 2 FOS-82x-AG107 Administration Guide Brocade® Fabric OS® Administration Guide, 8.2.x Fabric OS Overview......................................................................................................................................................40 Command Line Interface............................................................................................................................................... 40 Console Sessions Using the Serial Port.................................................................................................................. 40 Connecting to Fabric OS through the Serial Port............................................................................................. 41 Telnet or SSH Session..............................................................................................................................................41 Rules for Telnet Connections............................................................................................................................ 42 Connecting to Fabric OS Using Telnet..............................................................................................................42 Getting Help on a Command....................................................................................................................................43 Viewing the History of Command Line Entry........................................................................................................... 43 CLI History......................................................................................................................................................... 44 cliHistory --show.................................................................................................................................................45 cliHistory --showuser Username........................................................................................................................45 cliHistory --showall............................................................................................................................................. 45 cliHistory --help.................................................................................................................................................. 45 Considerations when Viewing CLI Logs............................................................................................................46 Using Fosexec to Run Commands on Remote Switch or Domain.......................................................................... 47 Modification of the Default Password..........................................................................................................................49 Default Account Password........................................................................................................................................49 Changing the Default Account Password at Login............................................................................................50 The Switch Ethernet Interface...................................................................................................................................... 51 Brocade Directors......................................................................................................................................................51 Brocade Switches......................................................................................................................................................51