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

20 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

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Viewing Switch Explorer

Use the drop-down menu at the top of the Fabric Tree area to view switches in the Fabric Tree by

switch name, IP address, or WWN. The background color of the switch icon indicates the current

status of the switch. You can hover the cursor over a switch to display the IP address and current

status. To manually refresh the status of a switch within the fabric, right-click the switch in the

Fabric Tree and choose Refresh.

Although Fabric Tree displays all the switches in the fabric, you can manage only the switches that

have a Web Tools license installed. Other switches must be managed through the Fabric OS

command line interface (CLI) or another management application. For information on adding a

Web Tools license to a switch, see “Installing a Web Tools license” on page 7.

Changing the Admin Domain context

The Admin Domain field displays the currently selected Admin Domain and allows you to change to

a different one. All the Admin Domains assigned to you are available in the drop-down menu.

For most administrative tasks you must be in either AD0 or the physical fabric. The following

procedure describes how to change the Admin Domain. This action is referred to as “changing the

Admin Domain context.”

1. Select an Admin Domain from the Admin Domain drop-down menu.

FIGURE 12 Changing the Admin Domain

2. Click OK in the confirmation window.

Switch Explorer refreshes to display the new Admin Domain context. You can monitor progress

using the progress bar.

If there are other windows open, the system displays a list of the open windows. You can

choose to change the Admin Domain which will close all the open windows, or cancel the

action and return to Switch Explorer.

NOTE

The Telnet window, the Fabric Details, and Fabric Events windows are not AD-filtered and do

not need to be closed.