Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002152-01, March 2012)

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Chapter
3
Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter
•Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
•Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
•Configuring Netstat Auto Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
•Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
•Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
•Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
•Switch restart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
•System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
•Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
•High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
•Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Displaying the Name Server entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
•Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
•Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
•Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fabric and switch management overview
Most of the management tasks described in this chapter are accessed through the Switch
Administration window. Information in the Switch Administration window is retrieved from the
selected switch, as shown in Figure 8 on page 32.