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

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Create a secure fabric
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• You cannot enable secure mode for an edge fabric that is configured for Fibre Channel routing.
See “FC-FC routing and secure fabrics” on page 285 for additional limitations when using the
FC-FC Routing Service and secure fabrics.
• You cannot enable secure mode on Admin Domain-aware fabrics.
• You cannot enable secure mode if a fabric-wide consistency policy is configured on the switch.
Brocade 3016 and Brocade 4020: The default administrative account is called “USERID”. On all
other models, the default administrative account is “admin”. You must rename the administrative
account from USERID to the Brocade default, admin, before enabling security; otherwise, the
Brocade 3016 or Brocade 4020 switch will not be allowed in the secure fabric. If you previously
renamed the default user-level account from user to some other name, rename it to the default,
user, before enabling security. For instructions on changing this name, see the Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide.
Launching the Secure Fabric wizard to create a secure fabric
1. In the Information panel, right-click the fabric for which you want to enable security and choose
Security > Enable Secure Mode from the context menu.
The Enable Secure Mode for Fabric wizard is launched (see Figure 156).
FIGURE 156 Enable Secure Mode for Fabric wizard
2. Follow the instructions in the wizard to enable secure mode for the fabric.
ATTENTION
One of the steps in the wizard is to optionally create a set of policies (see Figure 157 on
page 243). If you create policies without Fabric Manager client/server IP addresses, or if you
create empty Serial, Telnet, HTTP, and API policies simultaneously, then you will not be able to
manage security or a secure fabric.