Fabric OS Documentation Updates Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.x
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Document
- Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
- CEE Administrator’s Guide
- CEE Command Reference
- Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
- Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later
- Chapter 2, Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
- Chapter 4, Routing Traffic
- Chapter 5, Managing User Accounts
- Chapter 6, Configuring Protocols
- Chapter 7, Configuring Security Policies
- Chapter 9, Installing and Maintaining Firmware
- Chapter 12, Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Chapter 18, Administering Licensing
- Chapter 19, Monitoring Fabric Performance
- Chapter 20, Optimizing Fabric Behavior
- Chapter 22, Managing Long Distance Fabrics
- Chapter 23, Using the FC-FC Routing Service
- Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.1 and later
- Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.0.0 and later
- Fabric OS Command Reference
- Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting LKM
- Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting RKM
- Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting SKM and ESKM
- Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting TEMS
- Fabric OS Encryption Guide Supporting TEMS
- Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide
- Fabric OS FICON Administrator’s Guide
- Fabric OS Message Reference
- Fabric OS MIB Reference
- Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
- Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
- Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
- Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
- Brocade DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
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Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
In this chapter
The updates in this chapter are for the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002153-03, published April 2011.
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Documentation updates for Fabric Watch v7.0.0 and later
Chapter 1. Fabric Watch
In the existing “Fabric Watch licensing” section, the following paragraph is incorrect:
Fabric Watch is an optionally-licensed feature of Fabric OS. Each switch within a fabric needs its
own license, and that license is valid only for a particular version of the feature. If you want a newer
version of the feature, you must purchase a new license.
This paragraph should read as follows:
Fabric Watch is a optionally-licensed feature of Fabric OS. Once you purchase a Fabric Watch
license for a platform, the license remains valid for the life of that platform and across firmware
versions that are supported on that platform.
The following is new licensing information and should be added as a subheading to “Fabric Watch
licensing:”
Universal temporary license support
The Fabric Watch license is available as a Universal Temporary or a regular temporary license,
meaning the same license key can be installed on any switch running Fabric OS version 6.3 or later.
Universal temporary license keys can only be installed once on a switch, but can be applied to as
many switches as required. Temporary use duration (the length of time the feature will be enabled
on a switch) is provided with the license keys.
In the existing “Logical switch support” section, the following paragraph needs to be updated:
A logical interswitch link (LISL) is the logical portion of the physical connection that joins base
switches. You can enable or disable port thresholds and create thresholds for state changes on
LISLs, but Fabric Watch does not support other threshold areas such as link loss or signal loss for
LISLs as it does for normal E_Ports.