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

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 12-1

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Chapter

Configuring Standard Security Features

The chapter provides information about standard security features in Fabric Manager and contains the

following sections:

• “Managing Passwords” on page 12-1

• “Enabling Secure Communication Over HTTPS” on page 12-3

• “Managing the Truststore” on page 12-3

• “Managing Administrative Domains” on page 12-4

• “Managing Access Control Lists” on page 12-6

• “Propagating RADIUS Configuration Across Switches” on page 12-7

Managing Passwords

This section describes:

• “Enabling and Disabling Switch Passwords,”

• “Changing Admin Password on Multiple Switches” on page 12-2

Enabling and Disabling Switch Passwords

Fabric Manager stores switch passwords to the server automatically (by default). Use the following

procedure to enable switch passwords to be saved to the server or disable switch passwords from being

saved to the server.

To enable or disable switch passwords

1. Click Edit > Preferences in the Menu bar.

The Preferences dialog displays.

2. Expand User specific and click General (see Figure 3-22 on page 3-20).

Note

If you disable switch passwords from being saved to the server, then you need to monitor the fabrics

again when you restart the client. In this case, a message dialog displays on client startup about the

missing credentials; you must click the Provide credentials now button in that dialog and enter seed

switch credentials to start monitoring the fabrics. You can provide the credentials for the rest of the

switches in the fabric by clicking Discovery > Switch Login.