Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000436-01, June 2007)

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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 xvi
• “What’s New in This Document” on page xvii
• “Document Conventions” on page xxi
• “Additional Information” on page xxii
• “Getting Technical Help” on page xxvi
• “Document Feedback” on page xxvii
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 Brocade 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 Brocade 24000 and Brocade 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.