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

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Chapter
3
Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following sections:
•Managing fabrics and switches using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
•Opening the telnet window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
•Configuring IP and netmask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
•Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
•Managing blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
•Configuring a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Rebooting the switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
•Changing system configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
•Managing licensed features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
•Administering High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
•Monitoring events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
•Displaying a fabric summary report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Displaying the Name Server entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Managing fabrics and switches using Web Tools
You can perform most of the management tasks described in this chapter through the Switch
Administration window. Information in the Switch Administration window is retrieved from the
selected switch.
If the switch is not a member of the selected Admin Domain, most tabs in the Switch
Administration window display in read-only mode, regardless of what permission level you have.
The User tab is editable because most of the information on it does not require switch membership
in the current Admin Domain.