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

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Fabric device sharing diagnosis

Before you set up device sharing, you can verify whether two fabrics are configured to share

devices. Using the Diagnose Fabric Device Sharing wizard, you select two or more fabrics and

generate a report on whether device sharing is possible for each pair of selected fabrics.

When the wizard lists the fabrics, it displays only discovered fabrics; it does not list foreign fabrics,

secure fabrics, AD-enabled fabrics, or fabrics with an XPath OS switch as the proxy.

Fabric Manager performs the following checks on the selected fabrics:

• Are the selected fabrics configured with an FC Router?

• Are the selected fabrics connected to the same backbone fabric?

• Is sharing of devices between backbone and edge fabric supported?

Diagnosing fabric device sharing

1. Click Tasks > FC Router Management > Diagnose Fabric Device Sharing.

The Diagnose Fabric Device Sharing wizard launches, as shown in Figure 176.

FIGURE 176 Diagnose Fabric Device Sharing wizard

2. Follow the instructions in the wizard.

The Summary screen appears when the diagnosis is complete.