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

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 4-1
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Chapter
4
Discovering and Customizing Fabrics
This chapter provides information about discovering fabrics with Fabric Manager (including running
subnet scans), renaming and deleting fabrics, customizing and using the information provided in the
Fabric Manager views, and synchronizing the data and time across an entire fabric. See the following
sections for the steps required to accomplish the specific Fabric Management tasks:
• “Discovering a Fabric,” next
• “Logging In to Multiple Switches Simultaneously” on page 4-4
• “Monitoring Fabrics” on page 4-6
• “Deleting a Fabric from Fabric Manager” on page 4-9
• “Renaming Fabric Components” on page 4-10
• “Working With Switch and Port Groups” on page 4-14
Discovering a Fabric
You must discover a fabric before you can administer it with Fabric Manager. You can discover fabric in
two ways:
When you discover a fabric, Fabric Manager checks if the seed switch is running the latest Fabric OS
version in the fabric, and if it is not, Fabric Manager prompts you to select a new seed switch.
After fabric discovery successfully completes, the Fabric Manager client that initiated the discovery is
updated to display the newly discovered fabric. Other Fabric Manager clients receive a message dialog
that one or more fabrics are available for monitoring. If you receive this message, you can click Close to
ignore it, or click Monitor Fabrics to begin monitoring the newly discovered fabrics. See “Monitoring
Fabrics” on page 4-6 for instructions.
Discover fabric Use this option if you want to discover a single fabric and you know the IP
address or DNS name of the seed switch.
Subnet Scan Use this option if you want to discover multiple fabrics in the same subnet, or if
you do not know the exact IP address of the seed switch.
Note
On an Admin Domain-aware fabric, you must be a physical fabric administrator to discover the fabric.