Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (April 2011)

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About This Document
In this chapter
• How this document is organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
• Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
• What is new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
• CLI usage conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
• Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
• Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
• Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
• Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii
• Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Using Fabric OS Commands” explains how to use the command line interface to
manage a Brocade SAN and Brocade switches.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric OS Commands” provides command information.
• Chapter 3, “Primary FCS Commands” summarizes the subset of commands available when an FCS
policy is enabled.
• Appendix A, “Command Availability,” explains the Role-Based Access Control as well as Virtual
Fabric and Admin Domain restriction checks used to validate commands.