Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002152-01, March 2012)

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Blade management
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NOTE
The blade state is always shown as enabled, even if you perform a blade disable operation. When a
blade is set to a disable state, only the ports on the balde are disabled. The blade remains active.
To enable or disable a blade, perform the following steps.
1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration
window” on page 33.
2. Select the Blade tab (Figure 9).
FIGURE 9 Blade tab
3. Select Blade Action > Enable Blade for each blade you want to enable, or Blade Action >
Disable Blade to disable a blade, and click Yes in the confirmation dialog.
Disabling a blade does not turn off the blade, it disables the ports on the blade. You cannot
enable or disable the CP blades.
Setting a slot-level IP address
To set an IP address, perform the following steps.
1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in “Opening the Switch Administration
window” on page 33.
2. Select the Blade tab.
3. Click Set IP address.
4. Select a slot number from the list.