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

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Chapter
15
Firmware Management
In this chapter
•Determine the availability of firmware-specific features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
•Built-in FTP server and firmware repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
•File transfer options configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
•Firmware download for multiple switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
•Firmware download to HBAs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
•Prepare for firmware download to XPath OS switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
•Firmware access when changing the FTP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
•FDMI device information collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
•Switch reboot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Determine the availability of firmware-specific features
Determining the firmware version to use depends upon the features you need to manage your
fabric. Table 19 lists the firmware-specific features and their supported firmware versions. It is
Fabric OS-specific; refer to the appropriate chapters in this document for details about the way
Fabric Manager supports these features.
TABLE 19 Firmware-specific features
Feature Fabric OS XPath
OS
6.1.0 6.0.0 5.3.x 5.2.x 5.1.x 5.0.x 4.4.x 4.2.x 4.1.x 4.0.x 3.1.x/
3.2.x
3.0.x 2.6.x 7.3.x/
7.4.x
Port name change on a switch X X X X X X X X X X X
1
Port swapping X X X XXXXXX
Topology/ISL monitoring X X X X X X X X X X X X
2
X
2
Security administration X X X X X X X X X X X
Enabling secure mode X X X X X X X
FDMI/HBA firmware download X X X X X X X X X X
FTP server and firmware repositoryX X X XXXXXXXX XX
FICON X X X XXXXXX
3
FICON-CUP X X X XXXX
Cascaded FICON
4
XXX X