Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.0.0 (53-1000606-01, April 2008)

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Tasks
The Tasks menu lets you manage, monitor, and perform other tasks.
Management section provides access to:
• Zone administration
Zone information is collected from the selected switch. The icon is displayed only if a Brocade
Advanced Zoning license is installed on the switch. If an ACL-based FCS policy is in effect,
zoning can be administered only from the primary fabric configuration server (FCS) switch. If
the selected switch has a zoning license installed but is not the primary switch, the Zone
Admin icon is displayed but not activated. See “Managing zoning with Web Tools” on page 97
for more information.
• Switch administration
• Port administration
• Admin Domain administration
• Fabric Watch
NOTE
Some of these functions require a license key to activate them.
Monitor section provides access to
• Fabric events
Fabric events information is collected from the launch switch. See “Monitoring events” on
page 44 for more information.
• Performance monitoring
• Name Server information
Name Server information is collected from the selected switch. See “Displaying the Name
Server entries” on page 49 for more information.
Other section provides access to:
• Fabric summary
Fabric summary information is collected from the selected switch. See “Displaying a fabric
summary report” on page 48 for more information.
• Telnet tools
NOTE
It is important to note that certain Fabric OS features are available only on particular switch types,
and the system displays only the icons that are appropriate for the switch type.
Fabric Tree
Fabric Tree displays all switches in the fabric, even those that do not have a Web Tools license and
that are not owned by your selected Admin Domain. Switches that are not owned by the Admin
Domain are shown in the Fabric Tree with switch status. Fabric Tree does not display switches
segmented before Web Tools was opened.