Deployment Guide

‐ Reporting tasks, such as viewing the status of a switch.
‐ Tools tasks, such as opening the Telnet or SSH client window, beaconing a switch or
chassis, and access to SupportSave.
• The buttons below the menu bar provide access to switch information: status, temperature, power,
and fan data.
Although clicking a button can open a separate dialog box or window displaying the management
tasks, all access control is established when you first log in to the switch.
Buttons in Switch Explorer are unavailable for two reasons: because your account does not have
sufficient privileges to access this feature, or your currently selected Admin Domain does not meet
some condition to access the feature.
• The Switch View displays an interactive graphic of the switch.
• The Switch Events and Switch Information tabs allow you to view event information and switch
information, including connectivity, port, zone and other information.
• An indicator bar in the lower-right corner of every module window contains the Admin Domain you
are currently viewing, the current user name logged in to the switch, and the role associated with
that user account.
• The small right arrow near the Switch Event tab displays the switch. When you exit Web Tools, it
remembers the last window settings the next time you log in to the application. If you display the
switch, the next time you log in to Web Tools, by default the Switch View displays.
• Web Tools displays host time and switch time. The timestamp displayed in the Last polling refresh
time field in the lower-left corner of the window is the host time, in which the Web Tools is
launched. All other timestamp displayed in the application is the switch time. The following are the
features that display the host time.
‐ Port Admin tab
‐ Switch View tab
‐ Name Server tab
‐ FCR dialog
‐ Fabric Watch dialog
‐ System Monitoring dialog
‐ Netstat Performance dialog in Switch Admin tab
The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the following:
• Brocade Encryption Switch
• Brocade 300, 5300, 5100, and 5432 switches
• Brocade VA-40FC
• Brocade 7800
For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without the EGM license.
Using the Web Tools Interface
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