Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual (53-1000240-01, November 2006)

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Publication Number: 53-1000240-01
About This Document
This document is a command reference manual written to help system administrators and technicians
operate, maintain, and troubleshoot SAN products.
“About This Document” contains the following sections:
• “How This Document Is Organized,” next
• “Supported Hardware and Software” on page xxii
• “What’s New in This Document” on page xxiii
• “Document Conventions” on page xxv
• “Additional Information” on page xxvi
• “Getting Technical Help” on page xxx
• “Document Feedback” on page xxxi
How This Document Is Organized
This document is organized to help you find the particular information that you want as quickly and
easily as possible.
The document contains the following components:
• “About This Document” provides information about this document.
• Chapter 1, “Using Fabric OS Commands” explains how to use the command line interface to
manage a Brocade SAN and Brocade SilkWorm switches.
• Chapter 2 , “Fabric OS Commands” provides command information.
• Chapter 3, “Licensed Product Commands” provides a subset of commands specific to Brocade
licensed features such as Advanced Zoning, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Watch, ISL Trunking, and
Advanced Performance Monitoring.
• Chapter 4, “Exclusive Primary FCS Commands” summarizes the subset of commands available
when the security feature is installed and enabled.
• Chapter 5, “Control Processor Commands” lists the subset of active and standby control processor
(CP) commands in SilkWorm 24000 and SilkWorm 48000 directors.
• Chapter 6, “supportShow Reference” explains the information displayed by the supportShow
command.
• Appendix A, “RBAC Command Availability” explains the Role-Based Access Control checks used
to validate commands, and provides the availability of every command, for every user role.
• The Index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.