Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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2. Select two devices from the Available Devices panel and move them to the Selected devices to
collect trace route panel using the arrow buttons. Alternatively, you can search for devices
either by device port WWN or device port name using the Search and Add panel.
The following rules apply to selecting devices:
• Two and only two devices must be selected.
• Devices must be online.
• Devices must not be iSCSI virtual devices. iSCSI virtual devices are filtered out.
• Devices cannot be both initiators and targets; otherwise, any combination of target,
initiator, initiator+target, and unknown device is allowed.
• Devices cannot be connected to a switch running Fabric OS v2.x or XPath OS.
• At least one of the devices must be connected to a switch running Fabric OS v5.2.x or later.
• Devices must belong to the same fabric. Note that if the fabric fragments such that the
devices belong to different fabrics, the trace route will not work.
• Devices must be connected to two different switches in the fabric.
3. Click Trace Route.
The trace route information displays in the Trace Route Summary window, shown in
Figure 231. Click the tabs to display the forward route, reverse route, and fcping information.
FIGURE 231 Trace route summary
4. Optional: Click Copy to clipboard to copy the information to the clipboard from which you can
then paste it into another application. The information from all three tabs is copied.