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

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Opening the telnet window

Opening the Switch Administration window

Most of the management procedures in this chapter are performed from the Switch Administration

window.

1. Select a switch in Fabric Tree.

The switch is displayed in Switch View.

2. Click Switch Admin in the Manage section of the Tasks menu.

The Switch Administration window opens in basic mode, as shown in Figure 16 on page 28.

The basic mode displays the “basic” tabs and options.

3. To see all the tabs and options, click the Show Advanced Mode button.

Refreshing the Switch Administration window

You can refresh the fabric element information displayed at any time using the following procedure.

Note that when you click a different tab in the Switch Administration window, the information in the

newly selected tab is automatically refreshed.

1. Click the Refresh button on any tabbed page of the Switch Administration window.

Opening the telnet window

When you open a telnet window, the connection is to the IP interface of the switch. For each switch,

you must open a telnet window.

You cannot connect to CP blades that do not have separate IP addresses. Also, you cannot connect

using Web Tools to a CP blade on a director switch even when the blade has an IP address and

supports telnet sessions. See the Fabric OS Command Reference for information about the telnet

commands.

NOTE

Internet Explorer 7.0 default settings disable telnet functionality. If you are using Internet Explorer

7.0, you must make the appropriate changes in the registry to open the telnet window.

1. Select a switch in Fabric Tree.

You are prompted to log in if the OS is version 5.3.0 or greater. Otherwise, the selected switch

appears in the Switch View.

2. Click the Telnet button in the Other section of the Tasks menu.

Web Tools opens two windows: the Telnet window and another HTML-based window which is

used to launch the Telnet window. Click OK to close the HTML-based window. The Telnet

window remains open.

3. In the telnet window, enter your user credentials at the login prompt.

4. To close the session, type exit at the prompt.