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

19-4 Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Connecting Edge Fabrics

Fabric Manager allows you to connect edge fabrics without merging them using an FC Router. Using

the following procedure, you select a fabric to be the edge fabric, then launch the FC Router

Configuration wizard to configure an FC Router to which the edge fabric will be connected.

The wizard prompts you to select an FC Router to connect to the edge fabric, set the fabric ID, and then

select which ports on the FC Router are to be configured as EX_Ports.

• If the FC Router is an XPath OS switch, EX_Port configuration is done via the Fabric Manager

wizard.

• If the FC Router is a Fabric OS switch, the Fabric Manager wizard prompts you to launch Web

Tools to complete the EX_Port configuration. See the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide for

additional information.

To connect edge fabrics

1. Select a fabric that you want to connect to an FC Router and click Tasks > Device Sharing and

Troubleshooting > FC Router configuration. This fabric will be an edge fabric.

The FC Router Configuration wizard launches (see Figure 19-2).

Figure 19-2 FC Router Configuration Wizard

2. Follow the instructions in the wizard to configure the EX_Ports on the FC Router.

The wizard is self-explanatory, so the individual steps are not described in this document.

3. When EX_Port configuration is complete, physically connect the selected edge fabric to the

EX_Ports on the FC Router.

Note

You cannot launch the FC Router Configuration wizard if the selected edge fabric is AD-enabled. When

displaying the list of FC Routers for you to select, the wizard does not display FC Routers from AD-

enabled fabrics.