Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)
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Chapter
11
Switch Configuration and Management
In this chapter
•View switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
•View port information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
•Synchronize date and time across a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
•Open a Telnet session for a nonsecure switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
•Enable and disable switches and ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
•SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
•Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
•Administer ISL trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
•Administer license keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
•Configuration management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
•Switch configuration files backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
•Physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
•Switch replacement in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
•Work with the configuration repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
•Asset polling configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
•Domain ID configuration on a phantom switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
View switch information
The Fabric Manager client provides several ways for you to view information about a switch.
You can mouse over a switch in the Fabric View panel to display the following basic switch
information:
• switch name
• WWN
• IP address
• domain ID
• switch type
When the Fabric View is selected, the Scope panel displays the switch name and switch type in the
Switches tab. You can mouse over the fields in the table to display the full description in a tool. See
Figure 97 for tool tip examples.