Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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 ....................................................................................25
Fibre Channel services overview.................................................................... 25
Management server........................................................................................ 26
Platform services.............................................................................................26
Platform services and Virtual Fabrics..................................................26
Enabling platform services.................................................................. 27
Disabling platform services ................................................................ 27
Management server database........................................................................ 27
Displaying the management server ACL.............................................28
Adding a member to the ACL..............................................................28
Deleting a member from the ACL .......................................................29
Viewing the contents of the management server database ............... 30
Clearing the management server database........................................ 30
Topology discovery......................................................................................... 30
Displaying topology discovery status.................................................. 31
Enabling topology discovery .............................................................. 31
Disabling topology discovery...............................................................31
Device login.....................................................................................................32
Principal switch................................................................................... 32
E_Port login process .......................................................................... 32
Fabric login process ........................................................................... 33
Port login process............................................................................... 33
RSCNs................................................................................................ 33
Duplicate Port World Wide Name....................................................... 34
High availability of daemon processes............................................................34
Performing Basic Configuration Tasks..................................................................................... 37
Fabric OS overview.........................................................................................37
Fabric OS command line interface..................................................................38
Console sessions using the serial port................................................38
Telnet or SSH sessions.......................................................................39
Getting help on a command................................................................ 40
Viewing a history of command line entries..........................................41
Using fosexec to run commands on remote switches or domains...... 43
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