Brocade Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002748-01, March 2013)

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Chapter

FCIP Management and Troubleshooting

In this chapter

•Inband management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

•WAN performance analysis tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

•Portshow command usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

•FCIP tunnel issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

•FCIP links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

•FTRACE concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Inband management

Inband management allows management of a 7800 switch or FX8-24 blade in conjunction with

FCIP traffic through GbE and XGE ports. This enables a management station located on the WAN

side of the FCIP platform to communicate with the control processor (CP) for management tasks,

such as SNMP polling, SNMP traps, troubleshooting, and configuration. Through IP forwarding,

inband management also allows a management station connected to a LAN through the

management port of one 7800 or FX8-24 to manage the 7800 or FX8-24 at the far end of the

network through the WAN.

The inband management path is achieved by receiving the management traffic from the GbE port

and transmitting the traffic to the CP through a new interface. The CP then handles the

management traffic as it would handle any other management requests from a normal

management interface. The inband management interface is protocol-independent, so any traffic

destined for these inband management interfaces passes through the data processor (DP) to the

CP. It is then handled on the CP according to the rules set forth for the normal management

interface and follows any security rules that may be in place on the CP.

One inband management interface can be configured per GbE port to provide redundancy. This

allows the management station on the WAN side of the network to have multiple addresses for

reaching that switch and provides redundancy if one of the GbE ports cannot be reached.

Communication is handled through external addresses configured independently for each inband

management interface.

The following functions are not supported by the inband management interface:

• Downloading firmware

• IPv6 addressing