Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001337-01, July 2009)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
•What is new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• “About This Document” provides information about this document.
• Chapter 1, “Using Fabric OS Commands” explains how to use the command line interface to
manage a Brocade SAN and Brocade switches.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric OS Commands” provides command information.
• Chapter 3, “Primary FCS commands” summarizes the subset of commands available when an
FCS policy is enabled.
• Appendix A, “Appendix A: Command availability,” explains the Role-Based Access Control as
well as Virtual Fabric and Admin Domain restriction checks used to validate commands.
Supported hardware and software
This document includes updated information specific to new functionality introduced in Fabric OS
v6.3.0. The following hardware platforms are supported in this release:
• Brocade 300
• Brocade 4100
• Brocade 4900
• Brocade 5000