Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 11-9
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Administering ISL Trunking
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To swap ports
1. Right-click a port to be swapped in the Information panel FC Ports tab and click Port Swap from
the context menu.
Web Tools launches and displays the Port Swap dialog in the Port Management module, as shown
in Figure 11-7. See the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide for additional instructions.
Figure 11-7 Swapping Ports Using Web Tools
Administering ISL Trunking
Interswitch link (ISL) trunking optimizes network performance by forming trunking groups that can
distribute traffic across a shared bandwidth. You use the Trunking tab of the Web Tools Switch Admin
module (Figure 11-8) to view and manage trunks.
From the Trunking tab, you can:
• Display trunk group information
• Disable or reenable the trunk mode on a port