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

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Fabric Discovery

To discover a fabric using a DNS name, you must have an entry in the hosts.txt file in

C:\WINDOWS\system2\driver\etc or in /etc on Unix-based machines. The entry should be on a

new line with the format switchIP switchName. For example 10.144.8.42 mySwitch. The switch

is discovered in Fabric Manager using the DNS name switchName as specified in the hosts.txt

file (mySwitch in the above example).

You do not need to include http:// before the IP address to discover a fabric.

3. Type the user name and password used to log in to the switch.

4. Click OK.

The fabric is discovered only if the authentication succeeds. Otherwise, you are prompted

again for a user name and password. Authentication fails if the user name or password is

invalid for the switch, if the password has expired, or if the account is locked out after too many

invalid login attempts. If the password has expired, you are prompted to either change the

password or provide different login credentials.

After the fabric is discovered, all the switches in the fabric are tested against the user name

and password. If any of the switches fails to authenticate, you are prompted to log in to the

switches that failed. If you choose not to log in, the Fabric Device Management Interface

(FDMI) and some data for the Fabric Inventory reports might not be available.

If you choose to not log in to the switches that failed, you can log in later by choosing Discovery

> Switch Login. If the seed switch is not running the latest Fabric OS version in the fabric, you

are prompted to change the seed switch.

Multiple fabric discovery (subnet scan)

You can use Fabric Manager to scan a subnet and discover fabrics. A subnet scan eliminates the

need to know the exact address of a switch to discover a fabric. Fabric Manager lists the switches

and fabrics that it finds during the subnet scan. You can then select which fabrics to discover.

NOTE

Switches might appear in your subnet scan even after you unplug the Ethernet cables of those

switches.

Running a subnet scan

1. Select Discovery > Subnet scan.

The Subnet scan dialog box displays (see Figure 41).

NOTE

Subnet scan is only available for IPv4-formatted addresses: IPv6-formatted addresses are not

supported for this feature.