Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About This Document
- Understanding Fibre Channel Services
- Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
- Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks
- Routing Traffic
- Managing User Accounts
- Configuring Protocols
- Configuring Security Policies
- In this chapter
- ACL policies overview
- ACL policy management
- FCS policies
- DCC policies
- SCC policies
- Authentication policy for fabric elements
- IP Filter policy
- Creating an IP Filter policy
- Cloning an IP Filter policy
- Displaying an IP Filter policy
- Saving an IP Filter policy
- Activating an IP Filter policy
- Deleting an IP Filter policy
- IP Filter policy rules
- IP Filter policy enforcement
- Adding a rule to an IP Filter policy
- Deleting a rule to an IP Filter policy
- Aborting an IP Filter transaction
- IP Filter policy distribution
- Policy database distribution
- Management interface security
- Maintaining the Switch Configuration File
- Installing and Maintaining Firmware
- In this chapter
- Firmware download process overview
- Preparing for a firmware download
- Firmware download on switches
- Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform
- Firmware download from a USB device
- FIPS Support
- Test and restore firmware on switches
- Test and restore firmware on enterprise-class platforms
- Validating a firmware download
- Managing Virtual Fabrics
- In this chapter
- Virtual Fabrics overview
- Logical switch overview
- Logical fabric overview
- Management model for logical switches
- Account management and Virtual Fabrics
- Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics
- Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics
- Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
- Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode
- Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values
- Creating a logical switch or base switch
- Executing a command in a different logical fabric context
- Deleting a logical switch
- Adding and removing ports on a logical switch
- Displaying logical switch configuration
- Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch
- Changing a logical switch to a base switch
- Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric
- Removing an IP address for a Virtual Fabric
- Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs
- Changing the context to a different logical fabric
- Creating a logical fabric using XISLs
- Administering Advanced Zoning
- In this chapter
- Special zones
- Zoning overview
- Broadcast zones
- Zone aliases
- Zone creation and maintenance
- Default zoning mode
- Zoning database size
- Zoning configurations
- Creating a zoning configuration
- Adding zones (members) to a zoning configuration
- Removing zones (members) from a zone configuration
- Enabling a zone configuration
- Disabling a zone configuration
- Deleting a zone configuration
- Clearing changes to a configuration
- Viewing all zone configuration information
- Viewing selected zone configuration information
- Viewing the configuration in the effective zone database
- Clearing all zone configurations
- Zone object maintenance
- Zoning configuration management
- Security and zoning
- Zone merging scenarios
- Traffic Isolation Zoning
- In this chapter
- Traffic Isolation Zoning overview
- Enhanced TI zones
- Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers
- General rules for TI zones
- Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics
- Creating a TI zone
- Modifying TI zones
- Changing the state of a TI zone
- Deleting a TI zone
- Displaying TI zones
- Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure)
- Administering NPIV
- Interoperability for Merged SANs
- In this chapter
- Interoperability overview
- Connectivity solutions
- Domain ID offset modes
- McDATA Fabric mode configuration restrictions
- McDATA Open Fabric mode configuration restrictions
- Interoperability support for logical switches
- Switch configurations for interoperability
- Zone management in interoperable fabrics
- Frame Redirection in interoperable fabrics
- Traffic Isolation zones in interoperable fabrics
- Brocade SANtegrity implementation in mixed fabric SANS
- E_Port authentication between Fabric OS and M-EOS switches
- FCR SANtegrity
- FICON implementation in a mixed fabric
- Fabric OS version change restrictions in an interoperable environment
- Coordinated Hot Code Load
- McDATA-aware features
- McDATA-unaware features
- Supported hardware in an interoperable environment
- Supported features in an interoperable environment
- Unsupported features in an interoperable environment
- Managing Administrative Domains
- In this chapter
- Administrative Domains overview
- Admin Domain management for physical fabric administrators
- Setting the default zoning mode for Admin Domains
- Creating an Admin Domain
- User assignments to Admin Domains
- Removing an Admin Domain from a user account
- Activating an Admin Domain
- Deactivating an Admin Domain
- Adding members to an existing Admin Domain
- Removing members from an Admin Domain
- Renaming an Admin Domain
- Deleting an Admin Domain
- Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
- Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains non-disruptively
- Validating an Admin Domain member list
- SAN management with Admin Domains
- CLI commands in an AD context
- Executing a command in a different AD context
- Displaying an Admin Domain configuration
- Switching to a different Admin Domain context
- Admin Domain interactions with other Fabric OS features
- Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
- Admin Domains and LSAN zones
- Configuration upload and download in an AD context
- Administering Licensing
- Monitoring Fabric Performance
- In this chapter
- Advanced Performance Monitoring overview
- End-to-end performance monitoring
- Frame monitoring
- ISL performance monitoring
- Top Talker monitors
- Adding a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port
- Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric mode)
- Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on an F_Port
- Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID (fabric mode)
- Deleting a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port
- Deleting the fabric mode Top Talker monitors
- Limitations of Top Talker monitors
- Trunk monitoring
- Displaying end-to-end and ISL monitor counters
- Clearing end-to-end and ISL monitor counters
- Saving and restoring monitor configurations
- Performance data collection
- Optimizing Fabric Behavior
- In this chapter
- Adaptive Networking overview
- Ingress Rate Limiting
- QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
- QoS zones
- QoS on E_Ports
- QoS over FC routers
- Virtual Fabric considerations for traffic prioritization
- High availability considerations for traffic prioritization
- Supported configurations for traffic prioritization
- Upgrade considerations for traffic prioritization
- Limitations and restrictions for traffic prioritization
- Setting traffic prioritization
- Setting traffic prioritization over FC routers
- Disabling QoS
- Bottleneck detection
- Supported configurations for bottleneck detection
- How bottlenecks are reported
- Limitations of bottleneck detection
- High availability considerations for bottleneck detection
- Upgrade and downgrade considerations for bottleneck detection
- Trunking considerations for bottleneck detection
- Virtual Fabrics considerations for bottleneck detection
- Access Gateway considerations for bottleneck detection
- Enabling bottleneck detection on a switch
- Excluding a port from bottleneck detection
- Displaying bottleneck detection configuration details
- Changing bottleneck alert parameters
- Displaying bottleneck statistics
- Disabling bottleneck detection on a switch
- Managing Trunking Connections
- Managing Long Distance Fabrics
- In this chapter
- Long distance fabrics overview
- Extended Fabrics device limitations
- Long distance link modes
- Configuring an extended ISL
- Buffer credit management
- Buffer-to-Buffer flow control
- Optimal buffer credit allocation
- Fibre Channel gigabit values reference definition
- Allocating buffer credits based on full-size frames
- Allocating buffer credits based on average-size frames
- Allocating buffer credits for F_Ports
- Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group
- Buffer credits for each switch model
- Maximum configurable distances for Extended Fabrics
- Buffer credit recovery
- Using the FC-FC Routing Service
- In this chapter
- FC-FC routing service overview
- Integrated Routing
- Fibre Channel routing concepts
- Setting up the FC-FC routing service
- Backbone fabric IDs
- FCIP tunnel configuration
- Inter-fabric link configuration
- FC Router port cost configuration
- EX_Port frame trunking configuration
- LSAN zone configuration
- Use of Admin Domains with LSAN zones and FCR
- Zone definition and naming
- LSAN zones and fabric-to-fabric communications
- Controlling device communication with the LSAN
- Setting the maximum LSAN count
- Configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
- HA and downgrade considerations for LSAN zones
- LSAN zone policies using LSAN tagging
- LSAN zone binding
- Proxy PID configuration
- Fabric parameter considerations
- Inter-fabric broadcast frames
- Resource monitoring
- FC-FC Routing and Virtual Fabrics
- Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FC-FC routing
- Displaying the range of output ports connected to xlate domains
- M-EOS Migration Path to Fabric OS
- Inband Management
- Port Indexing
- FIPS Support
- Hexadecimal
- Index
518 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Port indexing on the Brocade DCX-4S backbone
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TABLE 101 Default index/16-bit PID assignment with no port swap for the Brocade DCX-4S
Port on blade Slot 1 Index/PID Slot 2 Index/PID Slot 7 Index/PID Slot 8 Index/PID
63 63/0x3f00 127/0x7f00 191/0xbf00 255/0xff00
62 62/0x3e00 126/0x7e00 190/0xbe00 254/0xfe00
61 61/0x3d00 125/0x7d00 189/0xbd00 253/0xfd00
60 60/0x3c00 124/0x7c00 188/0xbc00 252/0xfc00
59 59/0x3b00 123/0x7b00 187/0xbb00 251/0xfb00
58 58/0x3a00 122/0x7a00 186/0xba00 250/0xfa00
57 57/0x3900 121/0x7900 185/0xb900 249/0xf900
56 56/0x3800 120/0x7800 184/0xb800 248/0xf800
55 55/0x3700 119/0x7700 183/0xb700 247/0xf700
54 54/0x3600 118/0x7600 182/0xb600 246/0xf600
53 53/0x3500 117/0x7500 181/0xb500 245/0xf500
52 52/0x3400 116/0x7400 180/0xb400 244/0xf400
51 51/0x3300 115/0x7300 179/0xb300 243/0xf300
50 50/0x3200 114/0x7200 178/0xb200 242/0xf200
49 49/0x3100 113/0x7100 177/0xb100 241/0xf100
48 48/0x3000 112/0x7000 176/0xb000 240/0xf000
47 47/0x2f00 111/0x6f00 175/0xaf00 239/0xef00
46 46/0x2e00 110/0x6e00 174/0xae00 238/0xee00
45 45/0x2d00 109/0x6d00 173/0xad00 237/0xed00
44 44/0x2c00 108/0x6c00 172/0xac00 236/0xec00
43 43/0x2b00 107/0x6b00 171/0xab00 235/0xeb00
42 42/0x2a00 106/0x6a00 170/0xaa00 234/0xea00
41 41/0x2900 105/0x6900 169/0xa900 233/0xe900
40 40/0x2800 104/0x6800 168/0xa800 232/0xe800
39 39/0x2700 103/0x6700 167/0xa700 231/0xe700
38 38/0x2600 102/0x6600 166/0xa600 230/0xe600
37 37/0x2500 101/0x6500 165/0xa500 229/0xe500
36 36/0x2400 100/0x6400 164/0xa400 228/0xe400
35 35/0x2300 99/0x6300 163/0xa300 227/0xe300
34 34/0x2200 98/0x6200 162/0xa200 226/0xe200
33 33/0x2100 97/0x6100 161/0xa100 225/0xe100
32 32/0x2000 96/0x6000 160/0xa000 224/0xe000
31 31/0x1f00 95/0x5f00 159/0x9f00 223/0xdf00
30 30/0x1e00 94/0x5e00 158/0x9e00 222/0xde00
29 29/0x1d00 93/0x5d00 157/0x9d00 221/0xdd00