Fabric OS Documentation Updates Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x

12 Fabric OS Documentation Updates
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Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later
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Add the following paragraph to the list of bulleted paragraphs:
• ChassisRole is the account access permission at the chassis level. The chassis role allows
the user to execute chassis-related commands in a Virtual Fabrics-enabled environment.
Valid chassis roles include the default roles and any of the user-defined roles.
Chapter 6, Configuring Protocols
In the section “SSL configuration overview” on page 125, in step 4, change the last line of the
paragraph from this:
Brocade supports .pem, .crt, and .cer files from the Certificate Authority.
To this:
Fabric OS and HTTPS support the following types of files from the Certificate Authority(CA):
• .cer (binary)
• .crt (binary)
• .pem (text)
Replace the section “Installing a switch certificate” on page 127 with the following section:
Installing a switch certificate
Use the following procedure to install a security certificate on a switch.
NOTE
You must perform this procedure on each switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the secCertUtil import
command.
3. Select a protocol, enter the IP address of the host on which the switch certificate is saved, and
enter your login name and password.
Example of installing a switch certificate
switch:admin> seccertutil import -config swcert -enable https
Select protocol [ftp or scp]: ftp
Enter IP address: 192.10.11.12
Enter remote directory: path_to_remote_directory
Enter certificate name (must have ".crt", ".cer", \
".pem" or “.psk” suffix): 192.1.2.3.crt
Enter Login Name: your_account
Enter Password: *****
Success: imported certificate [192.1.2.3.crt].
Important Notes
• Certificate Authorities may provide their certificates in different encodings and different
extensions. Be sure to save the certificate with the applicable file extension before you import
the certificate to the switch:
For example, certificates that contain lines similar to the following are usually .pem encoded: