Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001194-01, April 2009)

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Chapter
2
Using the Web Tools Interface
In this chapter
•Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
•Displaying tool tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
•Right-click options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
•Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
•Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Viewing Switch Explorer
The first thing you see when you log in to a switch with Web Tools is Switch Explorer, shown in
Figure 12 on page 21. Switch Explorer is divided into areas that provide access to, and information
about, the switch and fabric:
• The left pane provides Tasks and Fabric Tree areas.
The Tasks area lets you perform management, monitoring, and other tasks. The Fabric Tree
displays a list of all the switches in the fabric.
• A menu bar, at the top of the window, provides access to commands and actions. The menu
bar displays the same commands as the left pane of Switch Explorer. If you choose to collapse
the left pane, you still have access to:
• Management tasks, such as zone administration, switch administration, port
administration, admin domain administration, and Fabric Watch administration.
NOTE
You can manage basic zoning and Traffic Isolation zoning using Web Tools and Web Tools
with the Enhanced Group Management (EGM) license. To perform clone operations for
zoning, the EGM license must be installed on the switch; otherwise, access to this feature
is denied and an error message displays.
The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the Brocade DCX and DCX-
4S enterprise-class platforms, the Encryption Switch, the 300, 5100, and 5300 switches.
For non-8 Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.
You must use DCFM Professional or Enterprise Edition to print the zone database
summary configuration and to analyze zone configurations. For more information on
zoning management, see “Zone configuration and zoning database management” on
page 143.