Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.0.0 (53-1000606-01, April 2008)

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Chapter

Introducing Web Tools

Brocade Web Tools is a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables administrators to monitor and

manage single or small fabrics, switches, and ports from a standard workstation. It is an

optionally-licensed product that runs on Brocade Fabric OS.

Web Tools provides the administrative control point for Brocade Advanced Fabric Services,

including Advanced Zoning, ISL Trunking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, and Fabric Watch.

Web Tools also provides an interface to telnet commands to perform special switch functions and

diagnostics that are available only through the telnet interface.

For some switch models, Web Tools provides a simplified interface, EZSwitchSetup, that allows

less-experienced users to perform basic management tasks. See the EZSwitchSetup

Administrator’s Guide for information about the EZSwitchSetup interface.

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following information:

•System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Installing Java on the workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

•Configuring the Java plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

•Installing a Web Tools license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

•Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

•Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

•Administrative domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

•Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

•Session management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

•Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

System requirements

Before you install Web Tools on your workstation, verify that your switches and workstation meet

the Web Tools requirements listed in this chapter.

Web Tools requires any browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0, JavaScript version 1.0, and

Java Plug-in 1.6.0 or higher.