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

66 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide
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Seed switch
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FIGURE 44 Monitor fabrics dialog box
2. Select the fabrics you want to monitor from the left side of the window and click the right arrow
to move them to the right side.
3. Click Start Monitoring.
For each selected fabric, you are prompted to provide the user name and password for logging
in to the seed switch (see Figure 40).
4. Type the user name and password used to log in to the switch.
5. Click OK.
Seed switch
The seed switch must be running the latest Fabric OS version of all the switches in the fabric.
Sometimes, the seed switch is auto-selected, such as when a fabric segments or when two fabrics
merge. Other times, you are prompted to change the seed switch, such as in the following cases:
• If, during fabric discovery, Fabric Manager detects that the seed switch is not running the latest
Fabric OS version, you are prompted to change the seed switch.
• When one or more switches join the fabric or if the switch firmware is changed on any of the
switches in the fabric, Fabric Manager checks to make sure that the seed switch is still running
the latest Fabric OS version. If it is not, then you are prompted to either upgrade the firmware
on the seed switch or to change the seed switch to a switch running the latest firmware.
If a fabric of switches running only Fabric OS v2.x or older is created due to segmentation, Fabric
Manager continues to monitor that fabric, but if any switch with a later Fabric OS version joins the
fabric, you do not receive any prompts to change the seed switch.