Brocade Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001187-01, April 2009)

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• Support for gathering additional information
- FCIP troubleshooting support
• Provided additional information on FTRACE
- Brocade HBA feature support
• FC Ping between devices (GUI and CLI support)
- Miscellaneous
• FC Ping to switch WWN
• Path information similar to traceroute CLI output
• RAS enhancements – system-wide RAS LOG support
• TI zone troubleshooting information
• Information that was changed:
- All commands have been updated.
• Information that was deleted:
- All obsolete information. This information was obsoleted because it was no longer
supported in the current version of firmware.
For further information about documentation updates for this release, refer to the release notes.
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies command syntax examples
Command syntax conventions
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive. Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions: