Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-0000194-01, November 2006)

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 4-1
Publication Number: 53-0000194-01
Chapter
4
Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
This chapter contains the following information:
• “Maintaining Configurations,” next
• “Performing a Firmware Download” on page 4-4
Maintaining Configurations
It is important to maintain consistent configuration settings on all switches in the same fabric, because
inconsistent parameters (such as inconsistent PID formats) can cause fabric segmentation. As part of
standard configuration maintenance procedures, it is recommended that you back up configuration data
for every switch on a host computer server for emergency reference.
This section contains procedures for basic switch configuration maintenance. Use the Configure tab
and Upload/Download subtab of the Switch Admin module to perform these tasks. See Figure 4-1 for
details.
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It is recommended that you are in AD255 or AD0, when no other user-defined Admin Domains exist, to
perform a config upload/download to gather all the configuration files for the fabric, including Admin
Domains and iSCSI Target Gateway information.