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

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Chapter

Limitations

In this chapter

This section provides the following information:

•General Web Tools limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

General Web Tools limitations

Table 16 lists general Web Tools limitations that apply to all browsers and switch platforms.

TABLE 16 Web Tools limitations

Area Details

Blade Failure If a blade fails on the switch, the Web Tools interface can still display slot and ports as

healthy. In this case, the failure might not be visible in Web Tools until the Web Tools

window is reopened.

Browser For Internet Explore 7.0, the default setting is to disable telnet functionality. You must

make the appropriate changes in the registry to enable telnet functionality if you want

to use it.

Browser Fabric Watch, Switch Admin, HA, Name Server, and Zone Admin are separate applets

embedded in HTML pages. The successful launch of the applet depends on whether

the browser can successfully load the HTML page. Very occasionally, you will see a

blank browser window with the message “loading pages...” that is stuck. This is likely

caused by a sudden loss of switch Web server (either by normal HA failover, reboot, or

other causes).

Workaround: If Fabric Watch, Switch Admin, HA, Name Server, or Zone Admin hang,

close this window and relaunch the module.

Browser A Web Tools browser window might stop responding following an HA failover

immediately after a zoning configuration was enabled or disabled. It is likely that the

Web daemon was terminated by the HA failover before the HTTP request was sent back.

Workaround: If one of the Web Tools modules is hanging, close the window and

relaunch the module. If the module is locked, shut down and relaunch the Web Tools

application.

Browser When you launch Fabric Watch, Switch Admin, Name Server, and Topology from Switch

Explorer via Internet Explorer, the applet windows cannot be resized and the Maximize

button is disabled.

Configuration Web Tools does not support NAT router configurations and will not function correctly

with switches behind a NAT router.