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  13. About this Guide
  14. Glossary of terms
  15. HP technical support
  16. Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures
  17. About the CLI
  18. Help information
  19. Performing basic configuration tasks
  20. Using a console session on the serial port
  21. Changing default passwords summary
  22. How to change default passwords at login
  23. How to display network interface settings
  24. How to set static addresses for the Ethernet network interface
  25. DHCP summary
  26. Setting the date and time
  27. How to set the time zone
  28. How to set the time zone interactively
  29. Synchronizing local time using Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  30. Maintaining licensed software features
  31. How to generate or activate a license key
  32. How to remove a licensed feature
  33. Customizing a switch name
  34. Customizing the chassis name
  35. How to display domain IDs
  36. Activating ports on demand
  37. How to activate Ports on Demand
  38. Activating Dynamic Ports on Demand
  39. Managing POD licenses
  40. Releasing a port
  41. Disabling and enabling a switch
  42. How to enable a port
  43. Linking through a gateway
  44. Checking status
  45. How to show switches in Access Gateway mode
  46. How to display the status of the track changes feature
  47. How to set the switch status policy threshold values
  48. Configuring the audit log
  49. Auditable event classes
  50. How to verify host syslog prior to configuring the audit log
  51. Shutting down switches and Directors
  52. High availability of daemon processes
  53. Managing user accounts
  54. Role Permissions
  55. Configuring the authentication model
  56. How to set the switch authentication model
  57. About the default accounts
  58. How to create an account
  59. How to change account parameters
  60. Recovering accounts
  61. How to change the password for a different account
  62. How to accept the user database
  63. How to set the password history policy
  64. Upgrade and downgrade considerations
  65. Managing Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
  66. Windows 2000 IAS
  67. RADIUS configuration and admin domains
  68. Configuring the RADIUS server
  69. How to add the Brocade attribute to the server
  70. How to enable CHAP
  71. How to configure the RADIUS server
  72. Configuring RADIUS servers on the switch
  73. How to add a RADIUS server to the switch configuration
  74. How to change a RADIUS server configuration
  75. Setting the boot PROM password
  76. SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director
  77. How to set the boot PROM password for a Director without a recovery string
  78. Recovering user, admin, and factory passwords
  79. Configuring standard security features
  80. Ensuring network security
  81. Configuring the telnet interface
  82. Blocking listeners
  83. Accessing switches and fabrics
  84. Configuring for the SSL protocol
  85. Choosing a certificate authority
  86. Generating and storing a CSR
  87. Installing a switch certificate
  88. Configuring the browser
  89. Displaying and deleting certificates
  90. Configuring SNMP
  91. Setting the security level
  92. using legacy commands for snmpv1
  93. Configuring secure file copy
  94. Maintaining configurations
  95. to upload a configuration file
  96. Troubleshooting configuration upload
  97. Configuration download without disabling a switch
  98. Security considerations
  99. Restoring configurations in a FICON environment
  100. SAN Director configuration form
  101. Configuring advanced security
  102. Identifying policy members
  103. Configuring an FCS policy
  104. FCS policy restrictions
  105. Overview of steps to create and manage the FCS policies
  106. Distributing an FCS policy
  107. Configuring a DCC policy
  108. Creating a DCC policy
  109. Creating an SCC policy
  110. Adding a member to an existing policy
  111. Removing a member from an ACL policy
  112. E_Port authentication
  113. Device authentication policy
  114. Selecting authentication protocols
  115. Managing secret key pairs
  116. Fabric wide distribution of the Auth policy
  117. Creating an IP Filter policy
  118. Displaying an IP Filter policy
  119. Deleting an IP Filter policy
  120. IP Filter policy enforcement
  121. Deleting IP Filter policy rules
  122. distributing the policy database
  123. Configuring the database distribution settings
  124. Distributing ACL policies to other switches
  125. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  126. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  127. managing administrative domains
  128. Admin domain features
  129. Requirements for admin domains
  130. Admin domain access levels
  131. Admin domains and login
  132. Switch port members
  133. Admin Domains and switch WWN
  134. Admin domain compatibility and availability
  135. Firmware upgrade and downgrade scenarios
  136. Understanding the AD transaction model
  137. Creating an admin domain
  138. Managing admin domains
  139. How to create a new physical fabric administrator user account
  140. Adding and removing admin domain members
  141. Deleting an Admin Domain
  142. Validating an Admin Domain member list
  143. Executing a command in a different AD context
  144. How to show an Admin Domain
  145. Admin Domain interactions
  146. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  147. Admin Domains and LSAN zones
  148. Installing and maintaining firmware
  149. Upgrading and downgrading firmware
  150. Considerations for FICON CUP environments
  151. Checking connected switches
  152. Obtaining and decompressing firmware
  153. Summary of firmware downloads on Director models
  154. Testing and restoring firmware on switches
  155. Testing and restoring firmware-on Directors
  156. Validating the firmware download
  157. Troubleshooting firmware download
  158. Pre-installation messages
  159. Blade troubleshooting tips
  160. Configuring Directors
  161. By slot and port number
  162. By index
  163. Basic blade management
  164. Disabling and enabling port blades
  165. Conserving power
  166. Port blade compatibility
  167. Obtaining slot information
  168. Configuring a new SAN Director 2/128 with two domains
  169. Converting an installed SAN Director 2/128 to support two domains
  170. Setting the blade beacon mode
  171. Routing traffic
  172. Assigning a static route
  173. Using Dynamic Load Sharing
  174. Viewing routing path information
  175. Viewing routing information along a path
  176. Using the FC-FC routing service
  177. Fibre Channel routing concepts
  178. proxy devices
  179. routing types
  180. performing verification checks
  181. assigning backbone fabric ids
  182. configuring an interfabric link
  183. portcfgexport options
  184. using router port cost
  185. port cost considerations
  186. setting a proxy pid
  187. Supported configurations and platforms
  189. Support
  190. Proxy devices
  191. dual backbone configuration
  192. configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
  193. monitoring resources
  194. routing echo
  195. interoperability with legacy fcr switches
  196. administering ficon fabrics
  197. supported switches
  198. ficon commands
  199. configuring switches
  200. preparing a switch
  201. setting a unique domain id
  202. displaying information
  203. fru failures
  204. using ficon cup
  205. enabling and disabling ficon management server mode
  206. displaying the fmsmode setting
  207. displaying mode register bit settings
  208. setting mode register bits
  209. port and switch naming standards
  210. troubleshooting
  211. backing up ficon files
  212. sample rmf configuration file for mainframe
  213. configuring the distributed manager server
  214. controlling access
  215. configuring the server database
  216. controlling topology discovery
  217. working with diagnostic features
  218. viewing switch status
  219. viewing port information
  220. viewing equipment status
  221. viewing the system message log
  222. viewing the port log
  223. configuring for syslogd
  224. configuring the switch
  225. viewing and saving diagnostic information
  226. about troubleshooting
  227. gathering information for technical support
  228. analyzing connection problems
  229. to check for zoning problems
  230. to download a correct configuration
  231. to correct a fabric merge problem quickly
  232. to edit zone configuration members
  233. to check fan components
  234. correcting device login issues
  235. identifying media-related issues
  236. to test components to and from the hba
  237. correcting link failures
  238. to correct a port that has come up in the wrong mode
  239. correcting marginal links
  240. inaccurate information in the system message log
  241. port mirroring
  242. supported hardware
  243. how port mirroring works
  244. port mirroring considerations
  245. creating, deleting, and displaying port mirroring
  246. administering npiv
  247. configuration scenarios
  248. displaying login information
  249. administering advanced performance monitoring
  250. displaying and clearing the crc error count
  251. adding end-to-end monitors
  252. setting a mask for end-to-end monitors
  253. deleting end-to-end monitors
  254. monitoring filter-based performance
  255. deleting filter-based monitors
  256. monitoring isl performance
  257. displaying monitor counters
  258. administering advanced performance monitoring (apm)
  259. clearing monitor counters
  260. saving and restoring monitor configurations
  261. administering extended fabrics
  262. fabric considerations
  263. configuring external ports
  264. configuring an extended isl
  265. administering isl trunking
  266. standard trunking criteria
  267. initializing trunking on ports
  268. monitoring traffic
  269. enabling and disabling isl trunking
  270. setting port speeds
  271. displaying trunking information
  272. trunking over extended fabrics
  273. troubleshooting trunking problems
  274. administering advanced zoning
  275. zone types
  276. zone objects
  277. zone configurations
  278. software-enforced zoning
  279. rules for configuring zones
  280. supported switches for broadcast zones
  281. high availability considerations with broadcast zones
  282. creating and managing zone aliases
  283. to delete an alias
  284. to delete a zone
  285. activating default zones
  286. merging zones
  287. creating and modifying zoning configurations
  288. to delete a zone configuration
  289. to view selected zone configuration information
  290. maintaining zone objects
  291. to delete a zone object
  292. managing zoning configurations in a fabric
  293. splitting a fabric
  294. configuring and monitoring fcip tunneling
  295. fcip licensing
  296. port numbering
  297. port numbering on the b-series mp router blade
  298. port numbering on the 400 mp router
  299. fcip fastwrite and tape pipelining
  300. unsupported configurations
  301. platforms and os requirements for fc fastwrite
  302. constraints for fc fastwrite
  303. disabling fc fastwrite on a port
  304. configuring ipsec
  305. ipsec parameters
  306. configuring fcip tunnels
  307. defining the ip interface of each virtual port
  308. configuring the gbe ports
  309. verifying ip connectivity
  310. fcip tunnel create option
  311. fcip tunnel modify and delete options
  312. verifying the fcip tunnel configuration
  313. checklist for configuring fcip links
  314. about the ipperf option
  315. wan tool performance characteristics
  316. wan tool ipperf syntax
  317. fcip tunnel performance characteristics
  318. a configuring the pid format
  319. impact of changing the fabric pid format
  320. selecting a pid format
  321. evaluating the fabric
  322. planning the update procedure
  323. offline update
  324. changing to extended edge pid format
  325. converting port number to area id
  326. performing pid format changes
  327. hp/ux procedure
  328. aix procedure
  329. swapping port area ids
  330. vendor switch requirements
  331. supported features
  332. zoning restrictions
  333. zone name restrictions
  334. c understanding legacy password behaviour
  335. password prompting behaviors
  336. password migration during firmware changes
  337. d using remote switch
  338. e zone merging scenarios
  339. Routing types
  340. Matching fabric parameters
  341. Monitoring resources
  342. Preparing a switch
  343. Setting a unique domain ID
  344. Displaying information
  345. Zoning and PDCM considerations
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

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  16. About this guide
  17. Intended audience
  18. Rack stability
  19. Subscription service
  20. Standard features
  21. Connecting to the CLI
  22. Using a console session on the serial port
  23. Changing default account passwords at login
  24. Configuring the Ethernet interface
  25. Setting static Ethernet addresses
  26. Configuring DHCP
  27. Setting the date and time
  28. Synchronizing local time using NTP
  29. Customizing switch names
  30. Licensed features
  31. Generating a license key
  32. Removing a licensed feature
  33. Features and required licenses
  34. Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) licensing
  35. Time-based licenses
  36. Activating POD
  37. Displaying the port license assignment
  38. Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
  39. Releasing a port
  40. Disabling and enabling switches
  41. Making basic connections
  42. Checking status
  43. Tracking and controlling switch changes
  44. Configuring the audit log
  45. Auditable event classes
  46. Shutting down switches and Directors
  47. Daemons that are automatically restarted
  48. Managing user accounts
  49. Using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  50. Role permissions
  51. Managing the local database user accounts
  52. Recovering accounts
  53. Configuring the local user database
  54. Configuring password policies
  55. Setting the password history policy
  56. Upgrade and downgrade considerations
  57. Denial of service implications
  58. Authentication configuration options
  59. Creating Fabric OS user accounts
  60. Managing Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
  61. Linux FreeRadius server
  62. Configuring the RADIUS server
  63. Windows 2000
  64. LDAP configuration and Microsoft's Active Directory
  65. Configuring authentication servers on the switch
  66. Enabling and disabling local authentication as backup
  67. Multi-protocal (MP) Router
  68. SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director (short name, DC Director)
  70. Recovering forgotten passwords
  71. Configuring standard security features
  72. Ensuring network security
  73. Configuring the Telnet protocol
  74. Blocking listeners
  75. Port configuration
  76. Summary of SSL procedures
  77. Generating and storing a CSR
  78. Installing a switch certificate
  79. Configuring the browser
  80. Displaying and deleting certificates
  81. Configuring for SNMP
  82. Using the snmpConfig command
  83. Configuring secure file copy
  84. Configuring advanced security features
  85. Identifying policy members
  86. Displaying ACL policies
  87. FCS policy restrictions
  88. Overview of steps to create and manage the FCS policies
  89. Distributing an FCS policy
  90. Configuring a DCC policy
  91. Creating a DCC policy
  92. Examples of creating DCC policies
  93. Saving changes to ACL policies
  94. Removing a member from an ACL policy
  95. E_Port authentication
  96. Device authentication policy
  97. Selecting authentication protocols
  98. Managing secret key pairs
  99. Fabric wide distribution of the Auth policy
  100. Accept distributions configuration parameter
  101. Displaying an IP Filter policy
  102. Deleting an IP Filter policy
  103. IP Filter policy enforcement
  104. Creating IP Filter policy rules
  105. IP Filter policy distributions
  106. Configuring the database distribution settings
  107. Distributing ACL policies to other switches
  108. Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide
  109. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  110. Matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  111. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  112. Zeroization functions
  113. Conditional tests
  114. FIPS mode
  115. Preparing the switch for FIPS
  116. Maintaining configurations
  117. Troubleshooting configuration upload
  118. Restoring switch information
  119. Security considerations
  120. Messages captured in the logs
  121. Configuration form
  122. Managing administrative domains
  123. Fabric with two Admin Domains
  124. Admin Domain features
  125. AD255
  126. Admin Domain access levels
  127. Admin Domains and login
  128. Switch port members
  129. Admin Domain compatibility and availability
  130. Compatibility
  131. Understanding the AD transaction model
  132. Creating an Admin Domain
  133. Assigning a user to an Admin Domain
  134. Activating and deactivating Admin Domains
  135. Adding and removing Admin Domain members
  136. Deleting an Admin Domain
  137. Validating an Admin Domain member list
  138. Executing a command in a different AD context
  139. Switching to a different Admin Domain context
  140. Admin Domain interaction with Fabric OS features
  141. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  142. Configuration upload and download in an AD context
  143. Installing and maintaining firmware
  144. Upgrading and downgrading firmware
  145. Preparing for firmware downloads
  146. Checking connected switches
  147. Obtaining and decompressing firmware
  149. Downloading firmware to a Director
  150. Overview of the firmware download process on directors
  151. Director restrictions for downgrading
  152. firmwaredownload from a USB device
  153. FIPS Support
  154. The firmwareDownload command
  155. Power-on firmware checksum test
  156. Testing and restoring firmware on directors
  157. Validating firmwareDownload
  158. Troubleshooting firmwareDownload
  159. Preinstallation messages
  160. Blade troubleshooting tips
  161. Configuring Directors
  162. Director port numbering schemes
  163. Default index/area_ID core PID assignment with no port swap
  164. Basic blade management
  165. Disabling and enabling port blades
  166. FC4-48 and FC8-48 blade exceptions
  167. Blade terminology and compatibility
  168. Core blades
  169. Obtaining slot information
  170. Routing traffic
  171. Assigning a static route
  172. Using dynamic load sharing
  173. Viewing routing path information
  174. Viewing routing information along a path
  175. Using the FC-FC routing service
  176. A metaSAN with interfabric links
  177. A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics
  178. Proxy devices
  179. Routing types
  180. Setting up the FC-FC routing service
  181. Performing verification checks
  182. Assigning backbone fabric IDs
  183. Configuring FCIP tunnels (optional)
  184. Configuring DH-CHAP secret
  185. Configuring an interfabric link
  186. portCfgExport options
  187. Configuring the FC Router port cost (optional)
  188. Using router port cost
  189. Port cost considerations
  190. Configuring EX_Port frame trunking (optional)
  191. Supported configurations and platforms
  192. Configuring LSANs and zoning
  193. Defining and naming zones
  194. LSAN zone binding (optional)
  195. Dual backbone configuration
  196. Configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
  197. Broadcast configuration
  198. Monitoring resources
  199. Routing ECHO
  200. Interoperability with legacy FCR switches
  201. Backward compatibility
  202. Range of output ports
  203. Interoperating with an M-EOS fabric
  204. McDATA Mi10K interoperability
  205. Configuring the fabrics for interconnectivity
  206. Connectivity modes
  207. Configuring M-EOS for interconnection
  208. SAN Pilot and EFCM Zone screens
  209. LSAN zoning with M-EOS
  210. Completing the configuration
  211. Migrating from an MP Router to a 400 MP Router
  212. Redundant configuration
  213. Devices directly connected to router
  214. Administering FICON fabrics
  215. Supported switches
  216. FICON commands
  217. User security considerations
  218. Preparing a switch
  219. Setting a unique domain ID
  220. Displaying information
  221. Swapping ports
  222. Setup summary
  223. Setting up CUP when FICON management server mode is enabled
  224. Displaying mode register bit settings
  225. Setting mode register bits
  226. Port and switch naming standards
  227. Troubleshooting
  228. Backing up and restoring FICON configuration files
  229. Recording configuration information
  230. Sample IOCP configuration file
  231. Configuring the Distributed Management Server
  232. Controlling access
  233. Configuring the server database
  234. Working with Diagnostic Features
  235. Viewing switch status
  236. Viewing port information
  237. Error summary description
  238. Viewing equipment status
  239. Viewing the system message log
  240. Commands for port log management
  241. Configuring for syslogd
  242. Configuring the switch
  243. Viewing and saving diagnostic information
  244. About troubleshooting
  245. Gathering information for technical support
  246. Analyzing connection problems
  247. Restoring a segmented fabric
  248. Correcting zoning setup issues
  249. Recognizing MQ-WRITE errors
  250. Correcting device login issues
  251. Identifying media-related issues
  252. Component test descriptions
  253. Correcting link failures
  254. Correcting marginal links
  255. Inaccurate information in the system message log
  256. Configuring ftrace for a tunnel
  257. Recognizing port initialization and FCP auto discovery process
  258. Supported hardware
  259. Port mirroring considerations
  260. Administering NPIV
  261. Configuration scenarios
  262. Displaying login information
  263. Optimizing fabric behavior
  264. TI zone failover
  265. General rules for TI zones
  266. Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation
  267. Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation
  268. Modifying TI zones
  269. Activating and deactivating a TI zone
  270. Deleting a TI zone
  271. QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
  272. QoS zones
  273. QoS on E_Ports
  274. Setting traffic prioritization
  275. Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring
  276. Advanced performance monitoring commands
  277. Monitoring AL_PAs
  278. Adding end-to-end monitors
  279. Setting a mask for end-to-end monitors
  280. Deleting end-to-end monitors
  281. Monitoring filter-based performance
  282. Adding custom filter-based monitors
  283. Deleting filter-based monitors
  284. Identifying top bandwidth users (Top Talkers)
  285. Using Top Talker monitors in port mode
  286. Using Top Talker monitors in fabric mode
  287. Limitations of Top Talker monitors
  288. Known display problem and workaround
  289. Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  290. Administering Extended Fabrics
  291. Fibre Channel data frames
  292. FC switch port Buffer Credit requirements for long distance calculations
  293. Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group
  294. Fabric considerations
  295. Long distance link initialization activation
  296. Extended ISL modes: 3xxx switches (Bloom and Bloom II ASICs)
  297. Administering ISL Trunking
  298. Standard trunking criteria
  299. Initializing trunking on ports
  300. Enabling and disabling ISL Trunking
  301. Setting port speeds
  302. Displaying trunking information
  303. Trunking over extended fabrics
  304. Trunking distances
  305. Recognizing buffer underallocation
  306. Administering Advanced Zoning
  307. Zone types
  308. Zone objects
  309. Zoning schemes
  310. Zoning enforcement
  311. Enforcing hardware zoning
  312. Hardware-enforced nonoverlapping zones
  313. Considerations for zoning architecture
  314. Best practices for zoning
  315. Supported switches for broadcast zones
  316. High availability considerations with broadcast zones
  317. Creating and managing zone aliases
  318. Creating and maintaining zones
  319. Activating default zones
  320. Merging zones
  321. Resulting database size: 0 to 96K
  322. Resulting database size: 128K to 256K
  323. Creating and modifying zoning configurations
  324. Maintaining zone objects
  325. Managing zoning configurations in a fabric
  326. Splitting a fabric
  327. Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services
  328. Platforms that support SAN extension over IP
  329. FCIP concepts
  330. Compression
  331. Layer three DiffServ Code Points (DSCP)
  332. IPSec concepts and implementation over FCIP
  333. Options for enhancing tape write I/O performance
  334. Constraints for FCIP fastwrite and tape pipelining
  335. Unsupported configurations
  336. FICON emulation concepts
  337. XRC emulation
  338. FCIP services configuration guidelines
  339. Configuring IPSec
  340. IPSec parameters
  341. Managing policies
  342. Persistently disabling ports
  343. Configuring IP interfaces and IP routes
  344. Configuring FCIP tunnels
  345. Configuring FICON emulation
  346. Configuring FTRACE
  347. Enabling persistently disabled ports
  348. Modify and delete command options
  349. Modifying/deleting QoS Settings
  350. Deleting an fcip tunnel
  351. Troubleshooting FCIP links
  352. WAN performance analysis tools
  353. WAN tool performance characteristics
  354. WAN tool ipPerf syntax
  355. Using portCmd ping
  356. using portcmd traceroute
  357. fcip tunnel performance characteristics
  358. FICON performance statistics
  359. FTRACE output control and display
  360. FC fastwrite concepts
  361. Platforms and OS requirements for FC fastwrite
  362. FC fastwrite flow configuration requirements
  363. Configuring and enabling FC fastwrite
  364. Disabling FC fastwrite on a blade or switch
  365. A Configuring the PID format
  366. Impact of changing the fabric PID format
  367. Changes to configuration data
  368. Evaluating the fabric
  369. Planning the update procedure
  370. Offline update
  371. Converting port number to area ID
  372. SAN Director with extended edge PID
  373. Performing PID format changes
  374. HP/UX procedure
  375. AIX procedure
  376. Swapping port area IDs
  377. B Implementing an interoperable fabric
  378. Determining McDATA-unaware features
  379. Supported Connectivity for Fabric 6.0
  380. M-EOS 9.6.2 features supported in Fabric OS 6.0
  381. Trunking
  382. Unsupported features
  383. Supported features McDATA Fabric mode (interopmode 2)
  384. McDATA Open Fabric mode configuration restrictions
  385. Zone name restrictions
  386. Safe zone
  387. Moving to McDATA Open Fabric mode from earlier Fabric OS versions
  388. Enabling McDATA Fabric mode
  389. Enabling Brocade Native mode
  390. FCR SANtegrity (Fabric Binding)
  391. Support for coordinated Hot Code Load
  392. Activating Hot Code Load
  393. C Understanding legacy password behavior
  394. Password prompting behaviors
  395. Password migration during firmware changes
  396. D Using Remote Switch
  397. E Zone merging scenarios
  398. Index
  399. Correcting I2C bus errors
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  22. About this guide
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  24. Rack stability
  25. Subscription service
  26. Fabric OS overview
  27. Telnet or SSH sessions
  28. Console sessions using the serial port
  29. Changing the default account passwords at login
  30. The Ethernet interface on your switch
  31. Displaying the network interface settings
  32. Static Ethernet addresses
  33. Activating DHCP
  34. IPv6 autoconfiguration
  35. Time zone settings
  36. Setting the time zone interactively
  37. Synchronizing the local time with an external source
  38. Customizing chassis names
  39. setting the domain id
  40. Domain IDs
  41. ICL licensing
  42. Time-based licenses
  43. Removing a licensed feature
  44. List of available ports when implementing PODs
  45. activating ports on demand
  46. Ports on Demand
  47. Dynamic Ports on Demand
  48. Releasing a port from a POD set
  49. Switch activation and deactivation
  50. Disabling a port
  51. Device connection
  52. Equipment status
  53. Verifying fabric connectivity
  54. Verifying device connectivity
  55. Displaying switches in Access Gateway mode
  56. Viewing the switch status policy threshold values
  57. Audit log configuration
  58. Auditable event classes
  59. Verifying host syslog prior to configuring the audit log
  60. Switch and enterprise-class platform shutdown
  61. High availability of daemon processes
  62. Managing user accounts
  63. Fabric OS roles
  64. RBAC permissions matrix
  65. Role permissions
  66. Local database user accounts
  67. Deleting an account
  68. Changing account parameters
  69. Changing the password for the current login account
  70. Protection of the local user database from distributions
  71. Password history policy
  72. Upgrade and downgrade considerations for password management
  73. Enabling the admin lockout policy
  74. with a recovery string
  75. The boot PROM password
  76. With a recovery string
  77. Recovering forgotten passwords
  78. The authentication model
  79. Setting the switch authentication mode
  80. Fabric OS user accounts
  81. Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
  82. Linux FreeRadius server
  83. The RADIUS server
  84. RADIUS authentication
  85. LDAP configuration and Microsoft Active Directory
  86. Creating a user
  87. Authentication servers on the switch
  88. Adding a RADIUS server to the switch configuration
  89. Deleting a RADIUS or LDAP server from the configuration
  90. Configuring local authentication as backup
  91. Configuring standard security features
  92. Secure file copy
  93. Simple Network Management Protocol
  94. SNMP and Virtual Fabrics
  95. The snmpConfig command
  96. Secure Shell protocol
  97. Configuring SSH authentication
  98. Deleting keys on the switch
  99. Secure Sockets Layer protocol
  100. Certificate authorities
  101. Obtaining certificates
  102. Checking and installing root certificates on Internet Explorer
  103. Summary of certificate commands
  104. Unblocking Telnet
  105. Ports and applications used by switches
  106. Port configuration
  107. Configuring advanced security features
  108. Policy members
  109. Displaying ACL policies
  110. FCS policy restrictions
  111. Creating an FCS policy
  112. FCS policy distribution
  113. DCC policies
  114. DCC policy restrictions
  115. Deleting a DCC policy
  116. Creating an SCC policy
  117. Member modification to existing policies
  118. DH-CHAP authentication
  119. E_Port authentication
  120. Device authentication policy
  121. AUTH policy restrictions
  122. Viewing the current authentication parameter settings for a switch
  123. Secret key pairs
  124. Fabric-wide distribution of the AUTH policy
  125. IP Filter policy
  126. Saving an IP Filter policy
  127. Supported services
  128. IP Filter policy enforcement
  129. Deleting a rule to an IP Filter policy
  130. Database distribution settings
  131. Displaying the database distribution settings
  132. ACL policy distribution to other switches
  133. Displaying the fabric-wide consistency policy
  134. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  135. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  136. Securing the management interface
  137. Gateway-to-Gateway Tunnel
  138. Nested Configurations
  139. Block ciphers
  140. Null encryption
  141. Pre-shared keys
  142. Example of an End-to-End Transport Tunnel mode
  143. FIPS support
  144. Power-on self tests
  145. LDAP in FIPS mode
  146. Setting up LDAP for FIPS mode
  147. LDAP certificates for FIPS mode
  148. Deleting an LDAP switch certificate
  149. Enabling FIPS mode
  150. Disabling FIPS mode
  151. Maintaining the switch configuration file
  152. Chassis section
  153. Switch section
  154. Configuration file restoration
  155. Restrictions
  156. Configuration download without disabling a switch
  157. Configurations across a fabric
  158. Downloading a configuration file from one switch to another same model switch
  159. B-Series configuration form
  160. Managing virtual fabrics
  161. Logical Switches and fabric IDs
  162. Port assignment in Logical Switches
  163. Logical Switches and connected devices
  164. Logical Fabric
  165. Logical Fabric and ISL sharing
  166. Base switches connected by an XISL
  167. Logical Fabric formation
  168. Account management and Virtual Fabrics
  169. DC04 SAN Director
  170. Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics
  171. Enabling Virtual Fabrics
  172. Creating a Logical Switch or base switch
  173. Deleting a Logical Switch
  174. Displaying Logical Switch configuration
  175. Changing the context to a different Logical Fabric
  176. Example of Logical Fabrics in multiple chassis and XISLs
  177. Managing administrative domains
  178. Admin Domain features
  179. Requirements for Admin Domains
  180. User-defined Administrative Domains
  181. AD255
  182. Admin Domain member types
  183. Switch members
  184. Admin Domain compatibility, availability, and merging
  185. Firmware upgrade considerations
  186. Setting the default zone mode
  187. Assigning a user to an Admin Domain
  188. Creating a new user account for managing Admin Domains
  189. Activating an Admin Domain
  190. Adding members to an existing Admin DomainConnect to an AD-capable switch and log in as admin
  191. Renaming an Admin Domain
  192. Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
  193. SAN management with Admin Domains
  194. Executing a command in a different AD context
  195. Admin Domain interactions with other Fabric OS features
  196. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  197. Admin Domains and LSAN zones
  198. Configuration upload and download in an AD context
  199. Installing and maintaining firmware
  200. Upgrading and downgrading firmware
  201. High Available sync state
  202. Connected switches
  203. Obtain and decompress firmware
  204. Upgrading firmware for switch and router products
  205. Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform
  206. Enterprise-class platform firmware download process overview
  207. Firmware download from a USB device
  208. Downloading the 6.2.0 image using the relative path
  209. Updating the firmwarekey
  210. Power-on Firmware Checksum Test
  211. Test and restore firmware on enterprise-class platforms
  212. Validating a firmware download
  213. Administering advanced zoning
  214. Zone types
  215. Zone objects
  216. Zoning schemes
  217. Zoning enforcement
  218. Hardware-enforced nonoverlapping zones
  219. Identifying the enforced zone type
  220. Considerations for zoning architecture
  221. Supported switches for broadcast zones
  222. Broadcast zones and FC-FC routing
  223. Loop devices and broadcast zones
  224. Adding members to an alias
  225. Deleting an alias
  226. Viewing an alias in the defined configuration
  227. Adding devices (members) to a zone
  228. Deleting a zone
  229. Validating a zone
  230. Default zoning mode
  231. Zoning database size and zone merging
  232. Resulting database size: 96K to 128K
  233. Zoning configurations
  234. Creating a zoning configuration
  235. Removing zones (members) from a zone configuration
  236. Deleting a zone configuration
  237. Viewing selected zone configuration information
  238. Clearing all zone configurations
  239. Deleting a zone object
  240. Renaming a zone object
  241. Fabric segmentation and zoning
  242. Zone merging scenarios
  243. Configuring Enterprise-class platforms
  244. Port identification by slot and port number
  245. Port Identification by Port Area ID
  246. Power conservation
  247. Powering off a port blade
  248. HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director 48 Port 4Gb Blade and HP StorageWorks SAN Director 48 Port 8Gb FC Blade enabling exceptions
  249. CP blades
  250. Core blades
  251. Displaying slot information
  252. Inter-Chassis Links
  253. LED behavior
  254. Routing traffic
  255. Routing policies
  256. Displaying the current routing policy
  257. AP route policy
  258. Dynamic load sharing
  259. Assigning a static route
  260. Interoperability for merged SANs
  261. Configuring the Distributed Management Server
  262. Enabling platform services
  263. Adding a member to the ACL
  264. Deleting a member from the ACL
  265. Viewing the contents of the management server database
  266. Clearing the management server database
  267. Disabling topology discovery
  268. iSCSI gateway service
  269. Basic vs. advanced LUN mapping
  270. iSCSI component identification
  271. Changing and displaying the IQN prefix
  272. Switch-to-iSCSI initiator authentication
  273. Displaying connection redirection status
  274. iSCSI target gateway configuration steps
  275. HP StorageWorks B-Series iSCSI Director Blade Configuration
  276. Enabling the iSCSI gateway service
  277. Enabling GbE ports
  278. Configuring the GbE interface
  279. iSCSI Virtual Target Configuration
  280. Generating an iSCSI VT for a specific FC target
  281. Mapping LUNs on a specific port to an iSCSI VT
  282. Deleting LUNs from an iSCSI VT
  283. Discovery domain and domain set configuration
  284. Creating and enabling a discovery domain sets
  285. Binding user names to an iSCSI VT
  286. Committing the iSCSI-related configuration
  287. LUN masking considerations
  288. iSCSI gateway service in an iSCSI FC zone
  289. iSCSI FC zone creation
  290. Zoning configuration creation
  291. iSNS client service configuration
  292. Disabling the iSNS client service
  293. Administering NPIV
  294. Configuring NPIV
  295. Configuration scenarios
  296. Viewing virtual PID login information
  297. Optimizing fabric behavior
  298. TI zone failover
  299. Additional considerations when disabling failover
  300. Traffic Isolation Routing over FC routers
  301. TI within an edge fabric
  302. TI within a backbone fabric
  303. Limitations of TI zones over FC routers
  304. General rules for TI zones
  305. Trunking with TI zones
  306. Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Routing
  307. Traffic Isolation Routing over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics
  308. Creating a TI zone
  309. Examples of creating a TI zone
  310. Creating a TI zone in a base fabric
  311. Modifying TI zones
  312. Changing the state of a TI zone
  313. Example of deleting a TI zone
  314. Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure)
  315. QoS: Ingress Rate Limiting
  316. Limiting traffic from a particular device
  317. Disabling ingress rate limiting
  318. QoS on E_Ports
  319. Virtual Fabric considerations for traffic prioritization
  320. Supported configurations for traffic prioritization
  321. Limitations and restrictions for traffic prioritization
  322. Using the FC-FC routing service
  323. Integrated Routing
  324. A metaSAN with interfabric links
  325. A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics and LSAN zones
  326. Proxy devices
  327. Routing types
  328. Sample topology (physical topology)
  329. Fibre Channel Network Address Translation
  330. Setting up the FC–FC routing service
  331. Backbone FIDs
  332. Assigning backbone FIDs
  333. Configuring an IFL for both edge and backbone connections
  334. FC Router port cost configuration
  335. Upgrade, downgrade, and HA considerations for router port cost
  336. Supported configurations and platforms
  337. Displaying EX_Port trunking information
  338. LSAN zones and fabric-to-fabric communications
  339. Setting the maximum LSAN count
  340. Configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
  341. Speed tag
  342. Rules for LSAN tagging
  343. Configuring a Speed LSAN tag
  344. LSAN zone binding
  345. How LSAN zone binding works
  346. FC router matrix definition
  347. Setting up LSAN zone binding
  348. Fabric parameter considerations
  349. Displaying the current broadcast configuration
  350. FC-FC routing and Virtual Fabrics
  351. Backbone-to-edge routing with Virtual Fabrics
  352. Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FC-FC routing
  353. Range of output ports
  354. Administering advanced performance monitoring
  355. End-to-end performance monitoring
  356. Adding end-to-end monitors
  357. Monitoring the traffic from Host A to Dev B
  358. Setting a mask for an end-to-end monitor
  359. Deleting end-to-end monitors
  360. Adding standard filter-based monitors
  361. Custom filter-based monitors
  362. Adding custom filter-based monitors
  363. Top Talker monitors
  364. Adding a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port
  365. Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric mode)
  366. Deleting the fabric mode Top Talker monitors
  367. Trunk monitoring
  368. Clearing monitor counters
  369. Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  370. Performance data collection
  371. Administering extended fabrics
  372. Fibre Channel data frames
  373. FC switch port buffer credit requirements for long-distance calculations
  374. Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group
  375. Supported Distances
  376. Buffer credit recovery
  377. Fabric considerations for buffer credit management
  378. Enabling long distance when connecting to Time-Division Multiplexing devices
  379. Extended Fabrics device limitations
  380. ISL Trunking overview
  381. Standard trunking criteria
  382. Initializing trunking on ports
  383. Configuring lossless dynamic load sharing on trunk ports
  384. Adding a monitor to an F_Port master port
  385. Enabling or disabling ISL Trunking on a port
  386. long-distance mode definitions
  387. Setting the same speed for all ports on the switch
  388. Displaying trunking information
  389. F_Port masterless trunking
  390. F_Port trunking considerations
  391. F_Port masterless trunking considerations
  392. Setting up F_Port trunking
  393. Assigning a Trunk Area
  394. Enabling F_Port trunking
  395. Enabling the DCC policy on a Trunk Area
  396. Configuration management for trunk areas
  397. F_Port authentication
  398. Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services
  399. Compression on FCIP tunnels
  400. QoS implementation over FCIP
  401. IPSec implementation over FCIP
  402. IPsec configuration
  403. Creating an IKE and IPsec policy
  404. Displaying IKE and IPsec policy settings
  405. Deleting an IKE and IPsec policy
  406. Virtual Fabrics and FCIP
  407. Supported third party WAN optimizer hardware
  408. Constraints for FCIP Fastwrite and Tape Pipelining
  409. Unsupported configurations for Fastwrite and Tape Pipelining
  410. FC Fastwrite concepts
  411. Platforms and OS requirements for FC Fastwrite
  412. FC Fastwrite flow configuration requirements
  413. Example: Enabling Fastwrite on a switch
  414. Disabling FC Fastwrite on a blade or switch
  415. Example: Disabling FC Fastwrite on a switch
  416. Setting persistently disabled ports
  417. creating ip interfaces and routes
  418. Creating an FCIP tunnel
  419. Example: Creating an FCIP tunnel
  420. Example: Creating an FCIP tunnel with FastWrite and Tape Pipelining enabled
  421. Enabling persistently disabled ports
  422. Managing FCIP tunnels
  423. Modifying and deleting QoS Settings
  424. Deleting an FCIP tunnel
  425. WAN performance analysis tools
  426. WAN tool performance characteristics
  427. wan tool ipperf syntax
  428. Testing a connection
  429. Tracing a route
  430. FCIP tunnel performance characteristics
  431. FICON fabrics
  432. Platforms supporting FICON
  433. Control Unit Port (CUP)
  434. CUP Limitations
  435. User security considerations
  436. Preparing a switch for FICON
  437. Setting unique domain IDs
  438. FICON information
  439. Port swapping
  440. Setting up FICON CUP
  441. Disabling fmsmode
  442. Mode register bit settings
  443. Persistently enabling and disabling ports
  444. FICON CUP license considerations
  445. Uploading the configuration files
  446. Sample IOCP configuration file
  447. Configuring and monitoring FICON Extension Services
  448. One Ethernet interface, one IP route and one FCIP tunnel between sites
  449. FICON emulation configuration
  450. FICON emulation configuration values
  451. FICON performance statistics
  452. FICON emulation monitoring
  453. A Configuring the PID format
  454. Impact of changing the fabric PID format
  455. Static PID mapping errors
  456. Evaluating the fabric
  457. Changing the PID format
  458. Changing the PID format online
  459. Hybrid update
  460. Port number to area ID conversion
  461. Basic procedure for changing the PID format
  462. HP-UX procedure for changing the PID format
  463. AIX procedure for changing the PID format
  464. Swapping port area IDs
  465. Physical port numbers and logical area IDs for swapped ports
  466. B Understanding legacy password behavior
  467. Password prompting behaviors
  468. Password migration during firmware changes
  469. C Mixed fabric configurations for non-merge SANs
  470. D Migrating from an MP Router to a 400 MP Router
  471. Dual backbone fabric configuration
  472. Configuring a new FC router
  473. E Inband Management
  474. IP address and routing management
  475. Setting the IP address for the CP inband management interface
  476. Viewing IP addresses and routes
  477. FIPS
  478. Configuring a Management Station on different subnets
  479. F Using Remote Switch
  480. Index
  481. Example of a Brocade DCT file
  482. Switch model naming matrix
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  17. About this guide
  18. Intended audience
  19. Rack stability
  20. Subscription service
  21. Standard features
  22. Connecting to the CLI
  23. Using a console session on the serial port
  24. Changing default account passwords at login
  25. Configuring the Ethernet interface
  26. Setting static Ethernet addresses
  27. Activating DHCP
  28. Disabling DHCP
  29. Setting time zones
  30. Synchronizing local time using NTP
  31. Customizing switch names
  32. Licensed features
  33. Generating a license key
  34. Removing a licensed feature
  35. Features and required licenses
  36. Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) licensing
  37. Time-based licenses
  38. Activating POD
  39. Displaying the port license assignment
  40. Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
  41. Reserving a license
  42. Releasing a port from a POD set
  43. Disabling and enabling ports
  44. Connecting to other switches
  45. Checking switch status
  46. Fabric connectivity
  47. Tracking and controlling switch changes
  48. Configuring the audit log
  49. Auditable event classes
  50. Switch and platform-class platform shutdown
  51. High Availability of daemon processes
  52. Managing user accounts
  53. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  54. Role permissions
  55. Managing the local database user accounts
  56. Recovering accounts
  57. Configuring the local user database
  58. Protecting the local user database from distributions
  59. Setting the password history policy
  60. Upgrade and downgrade considerations for password management
  61. Denial of service implications
  62. Authentication configuration options
  63. Creating Fabric OS user accounts
  64. Managing Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
  65. Linux FreeRadius server
  66. Configuring the RADIUS server
  67. Configuring RADIUS server support with Windows 2000
  68. RSA RADIUS server
  69. LDAP configuration and Microsoft's Active Directory
  70. Adding the adlist
  71. Configuring local authentication as backup
  72. SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director (short name, DC Director)
  74. Recovering forgotten passwords
  75. Configuring standard security features
  76. The SSH protocol
  77. SSH public key authentication
  78. Deleting keys on the switch
  79. Unblocking Telnet
  80. Summary of SSL procedures
  81. Generating and storing a CSR
  82. Installing a switch certificate
  83. Configuring the browser
  84. Configuring for SNMP
  85. Setting the security level
  86. Secure file copy
  87. Setting up SCP for configuploads and downloads
  88. Ports and applications used by switches
  89. Configuring advanced security features
  90. Identifying policy members
  91. Displaying ACL policies
  92. FCS policy restrictions
  93. Overview of FCS policy management
  94. Distributing an FCS policy
  95. Configuring a DCC policy
  96. DCC policy restrictions
  97. Examples of creating DCC policies
  98. Creating an SCC policy
  99. Adding a member to an existing policy
  100. Configuring the authentication policy for fabric elements
  101. E_Port authentication
  102. Device authentication policy
  103. Supported HBAs
  104. Secret key pairs
  105. Fabric-wide distribution of the Auth policy
  106. Displaying an IP Filter policy
  107. IP Filter policy rules
  108. IP Filter policy enforcement
  109. Creating IP Filter policy rules
  110. IP Filter policy restrictions
  111. Configuring the database distribution settings
  112. Distributing ACL policies to other switches
  113. Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide
  114. Fabric-wide consistency policy settings
  115. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  116. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  117. FIPS support
  118. Power-up self tests
  119. LDAP in FIPS mode
  120. Additional Microsoft Active Directory settings
  121. Exporting an LDAP switch certificate
  122. Overview of steps
  123. Disabling FIPS mode
  124. Maintaining the switch configuration file
  125. Restoring a configuration
  126. Security considerations
  127. Downloading Configurations across a fabric
  128. Configuration form
  129. Managing administrative domains
  130. Fabric with two Admin Domains
  131. Admin Domain features
  132. User-defined Administrative Domains
  133. AD255
  134. Admin Domain member types
  135. Switch members
  136. Admin Domain compatibility and availability
  137. Compatibility
  138. Setting the default zone mode
  139. Assigning a user to an Admin Domain
  140. Removing an Admin Domain from a user account
  141. Activating and deactivating Admin Domains
  142. Adding and removing Admin Domain members
  143. Renaming an Admin Domain
  144. Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
  145. SAN management with Admin Domains
  146. Executing a command in a different AD context
  147. Switching to a different Admin Domain context
  148. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  149. Admin Domains and LSAN zones
  150. Configuration upload and download in an AD context
  151. Installing and maintaining firmware
  152. Upgrading and downgrading firmware
  153. Preparing for a firmware download
  154. Checking connected switches
  155. Finding the firmware version
  156. Firmware download on switches
  157. Downloading firmware to a Director
  158. Overview of the firmware download process on directors
  159. FirmwareDownload from a USB device
  160. Downloading the 6.1.1 image using the relative path
  161. Updating the firmwarekey
  162. The firmwareDownload command
  163. Testing and restoring firmware on switches
  164. Testing and restoring firmware on directors
  165. Validating firmwareDownload
  166. Administering Advanced Zoning
  167. Zone types
  168. Zone objects
  169. Zoning schemes
  170. Zoning enforcement
  171. Enforcing hardware zoning
  172. Hardware-enforced non-overlapping zones
  173. Hardware-enforced overlapping zones
  174. Identifying the enforced zone type
  175. Broadcast zones
  176. Broadcast zones and FC-FC routing
  177. High Availability considerations with broadcast zones
  178. Creating and maintaining zones
  179. Default zoning mode
  180. Viewing the current default zone access mode
  181. Resulting database size: 0 to 96K
  182. Resulting database size: 128K to 256K
  183. Zoning configurations
  184. Maintaining zone objects
  185. Zoning configuration management
  186. Fabric segmentation and zoning
  187. Configuring Directors
  188. Director port numbering schemes
  189. Port identification by index
  190. Basic blade management
  191. FR4-18i blade exceptions
  192. Blade terminology and compatibility
  193. CP blades
  194. Setting chassis configuration options for the 4/256 Director
  195. Displaying slot information
  196. Inter-chassis Link behavior between two HP StorageWorks DC Directors
  197. Routing traffic
  198. Static route assignment
  199. Frame order delivery
  200. Setting DLS
  201. Viewing routing information along a path
  202. Implementing an interoperable fabric
  203. Configuring the Distributed Management Server
  204. Enabling platform services
  205. Adding a member to the ACL
  206. Viewing the contents of the management server database
  207. Clearing the management server database
  208. iSCSI Gateway services
  209. Basic versus advanced LUN mapping
  210. Advanced LUN mapping
  211. Changing and displaying the IQN prefix
  212. Switch-to-iSCSI initiator authentication
  213. Enabling and disabling connection redirection for load balancing
  214. Supported iSCSI initiators
  215. FC4-16IP Blade Configuration
  216. Enabling the iSCSI gateway service
  217. Configuring the GbE interface
  218. iSCSI Virtual Target Configuration
  219. Automatic iSCSI VT creation
  220. Generating an iSCSI VT for a specific FC target
  221. Manual iSCSI VT creation
  222. Mapping LUNs on a specific port to an iSCSI VT
  223. Displaying the iSCSI virtual target LUN map
  224. Displaying iSCSI initiator IQNs
  225. iSCSI initiator-to-VT authentication configuration
  226. Deleting user names from an iSCSI VT binding list
  227. Resolving conflicts between iSCSI configurations
  228. iSCSI FC zoning overview
  229. iSCSI FC zone creation
  230. Zoning configuration creation
  231. iSNS client service configuration
  232. Enabling the iSNS client service
  233. Disabling the iSNS client service
  234. Administering NPIV
  235. Configuration scenarios
  236. Viewing virtual PID login information
  237. Optimizing fabric behavior
  238. TI zone failover
  239. FSPF routing rules and Traffic Isolation
  240. Traffic Isolation over FC routers
  241. TI within an edge fabric
  242. TI within a backbone fabric
  243. Limitations of TI zones over FC routers
  244. Trunking with TI zones
  245. Modifying TI zones
  246. Activating and deactivating a TI zone
  247. Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure)
  248. TI over FCR example
  249. QoS: ingress rate limiting
  250. QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
  251. QoS traffic prioritization
  252. QoS on E_Ports
  253. Limitations and restrictions for traffic prioritization
  254. Using the FC-FC routing service
  255. Supported configurations
  256. A metaSAN with interfabric links
  257. A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics
  258. Proxy devices
  259. Routing types
  260. Setting up the FC-FC routing service
  261. Assigning backbone fabric IDs
  262. Configuring FCIP tunnels
  263. Configuring the FC router port cost
  264. Setting the router port cost for an EX_Port
  265. Port cost considerations
  266. Configuring EX_Port frame trunking (optional)
  267. Supported configurations and platforms
  268. Configuring LSANs and zoning
  269. Controlling device communication with LSAN (sample procedure)
  270. LSAN zone binding
  271. How LSAN zone binding works
  272. FC router matrix definition
  273. Upgrade, downgrade, and HA considerations for LSAN zone binding
  274. Dual backbone configuration
  275. HA and downgrade considerations for LSAN zones
  276. Monitoring resources
  277. Upgrade and downgrade considerations
  278. Interoperability with legacy FCR switches
  279. Range of output ports
  280. Administering advanced performance monitoring
  281. End-to-end performance monitoring
  282. Adding end-to-end monitors
  283. Deleting end-to-end monitors
  284. Filter-based performance monitoring
  285. Custom filter-based monitors
  286. Deleting filter-based monitors
  287. Top Talker monitors
  288. Deleting a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port
  289. Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric
  290. Limitations of Top Talker monitors
  291. Clearing monitor counters
  292. Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  293. Administering extended fabrics
  294. Fibre Channel data frames
  295. FC switch port Buffer Credit requirements for long distance calculations
  296. Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group
  297. Switch, port speed, and distance with ASIC and buffers
  298. Buffer credit recovery
  299. Configuring an extended ISL
  300. Extended ISL modes: B-Series 2Gb Switches (Bloom and Bloom II ASICs)
  301. Administering ISL trunking
  302. Standard trunking criteria
  303. Initializing trunking on ports
  304. Adding a monitor to an F_Port master port
  305. Enabling and disabling ISL Trunking
  306. Setting port speeds
  307. Setting the same speed for all ports on the switch
  308. Trunking over Extended Fabrics
  309. F_Port masterless trunking
  310. Switch in Access Gateway mode without F_Port trunking
  311. F_Port trunking considerations
  312. Setting up F_Port trunking
  313. Assigning a Trunk area
  314. Enabling F_Port trunking
  315. Enabling the DCC policy on trunk
  316. Trunking for Access Gateway
  317. Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services
  318. Compression on FCIP tunnels
  319. FCIP services license
  320. When both DSCP and L2CoS are used
  321. IPSec terminology
  322. Configuring IPSec
  323. Managing policies
  324. Options for enhancing tape write I/O performance
  325. FCIP fastwrite and tape pipelining
  326. FCIP fastwrite/tape pipelining configurations
  327. FC Fastwrite concepts
  328. Platforms and OS requirements for FC Fastwrite
  329. FC Fastwrite flow configuration requirements
  330. Disabling FC Fastwrite on a blade or switch
  331. Disabling FC Fastwrite on a port
  332. Setting persistently disabled ports
  333. Creating an FCIP tunnels
  334. Verifying the FCIP tunnel configuration
  335. Enabling persistently disabled ports
  336. Managing FCIP tunnels
  337. Modifying and deleting QoS Settings
  338. Deleting an IP interface (IPIF)
  339. About the ipperf option
  340. WAN tool performance characteristics
  341. WAN tool ipPerf syntax
  342. Using portCmd ping
  343. Using portCmd traceroute
  344. FCIP tunnel performance characteristics
  345. Command checklist for configuring FCIP links
  346. FICON fabrics
  347. Platforms supporting FICON
  348. FICON commands
  349. User security considerations
  350. Configuring a single switch
  351. Cascaded configuration, two switches
  352. Setting unique Domain IDs
  353. Registered listeners
  354. Clearing the FICON management database
  355. FMSmode and FICON CUP
  356. Displaying the fmsmode setting
  357. Displaying mode register bit settings
  358. Persistently enabling and disabling ports
  359. FICON CUP license considerations
  360. Downloading configuration files with Active=Saved mode disabled
  361. Recording configuration information
  362. Sample IOCP configuration file
  363. Configuring and monitoring FICON Extension Services
  364. FICON emulation requirement for a determinate path
  365. XRC emulation
  366. FICON emulation configuration values
  367. FICON performance statistics
  368. FICON emulation monitoring
  369. A Configuring the PID format
  370. Impact of changing the fabric PID format
  371. Changes to configuration data
  372. Evaluating the fabric
  373. Changing the PID format
  374. Changing the PID format offline
  375. Converting port number to area ID
  376. Basic procedure for changing the PID format
  377. HP-UX procedure
  378. AIX procedure for changing the PID format
  379. Swapping port area IDs
  380. B Understanding legacy password behavior
  381. Password prompting behaviors
  382. Password migration during firmware changes
  383. C Interoperating with an M-EOS fabric
  384. D Migrating from an MP Router to a 400 MP Router
  385. Redundant configuration
  386. Dual backbone fabric configuration
  387. Configuring a new FC router
  388. E Using Remote Switch
  389. F Zone merging scenarios
  390. Index
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  17. About this guide
  18. Intended audience
  19. Rack stability
  20. Subscription service
  21. Standard features
  22. Connecting to the CLI
  23. Using a console session on the serial port
  24. Changing default account passwords at login
  25. Configuring the Ethernet interface
  26. Setting static Ethernet addresses
  27. Activating DHCP
  28. Setting the date and time
  29. Synchronizing local time using NTP
  30. Customizing switch names
  31. Licensed features
  32. Generating a license key
  33. Removing a licensed feature
  34. Features and required licenses
  35. Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) licensing
  36. Time-based licenses
  37. Activating POD
  38. Displaying the port license assignment
  39. Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
  40. Releasing a port
  41. Disabling and enabling switches
  42. Making basic connections
  43. Checking switch status
  44. High Availability (HA) features
  45. Show switches in Access Gateway mode
  46. Configuring the audit log
  47. Auditable event classes
  48. Shutting down switches and Directors
  49. Daemons that are automatically restarted
  50. Managing user accounts
  51. Using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  52. Role permissions
  53. Managing the local database user accounts
  54. Recovering accounts
  55. Configuring the local user database
  56. Configuring password policies
  57. Setting the password history policy
  58. Upgrade and downgrade considerations
  59. Denial of service implications
  60. Authentication configuration options
  61. Creating Fabric OS user accounts
  62. Managing Fabric OS users on the RADIUS server
  63. Linux FreeRadius server
  64. Configuring the RADIUS server
  65. Windows 2000
  66. RSA RADIUS server
  67. Setting up the RSA RADIUS server
  68. LDAP configuration and Microsoft's Active Directory
  69. Adding the adlist
  70. Configuring authentication servers on the switch
  71. Enabling and disabling local authentication as backup
  72. SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director (short name, DC Director)
  74. Recovering forgotten passwords
  75. Configuring standard security features
  76. The SSH protocol
  77. SSH public key authentication
  78. Generating a key pair for host-to-switch authentication (incoming)
  79. Exporting the public key for switch-to-host authentication (outgoing)
  80. Configuring the Telnet protocol
  81. Configuring for the SSL protocol
  82. Choosing a CA
  83. Obtaining certificates
  84. Activating a switch certificate
  85. Installing a root certificate to the Java plug-in
  86. Configuring for SNMP
  87. Using the snmpConfig command
  88. Secure file copy
  89. Listener applications
  90. Port configuration
  91. Configuring advanced security features
  92. Identifying policy members
  93. Displaying ACL policies
  94. FCS policy restrictions
  95. Overview of steps to create and manage the FCS policies
  96. Distributing an FCS policy
  97. Configuring a DCC policy
  98. DCC policy restrictions
  99. Examples of creating DCC policies
  100. Creating an SCC policy
  101. Activating changes to ACL policies
  102. Aborting all uncommitted changes
  103. E_Port authentication
  104. Device authentication policy
  105. Auth policy restrictions
  106. Re-authenticating ports
  107. Fabric wide distribution of the Auth policy
  108. IP Filter policy
  109. Displaying an IP Filter policy
  110. Deleting an IP Filter policy
  111. IP Filter policy enforcement
  112. Creating IP Filter policy rules
  113. Aborting a switch session transaction
  114. Configuring the database distribution settings
  115. Distributing ACL policies to other switches
  116. Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide
  117. Fabric-wide consistency policy settings
  118. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  119. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  120. FIPS support
  121. Power-up self tests
  122. LDAP in FIPS mode
  123. Addtional Microsoft Active Directory settings
  124. Exporting an LDAP switch certificate
  125. Overview of steps
  126. Disabling FIPS mode
  127. Maintaining the switch configuration file
  128. Restoring a configuration
  129. Security considerations
  130. Downloading configurations across a fabric
  131. Configuration form
  132. Managing administrative domains
  133. Fabric with two Admin Domains
  134. Admin Domain features
  135. User-defined Administrative Domains
  136. AD255
  137. Admin Domain member types
  138. Switch members
  139. Admin Domain compatibility and availability
  140. Compatibility
  141. Setting the default zone mode
  142. Assigning a user to an Admin Domain
  143. Activating and deactivating Admin Domains
  144. Adding and removing Admin Domain members
  145. Renaming an Admin Domain
  146. Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
  147. SAN management with Admin Domains
  148. Executing a command in a different AD context
  149. Switching to a different Admin Domain context
  150. Admin Domain interaction with Fabric OS features
  151. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  152. Configuration upload and download in an AD context
  153. Installing and maintaining firmware
  154. Upgrading and downgrading firmware
  155. Preparing for firmware downloads
  156. Checking connected switches
  157. Finding the firmware version
  158. Performing firmwareDownload on switches
  159. Downloading firmware to a Director
  160. Overview of the firmware download process on directors
  161. FirmwareDownload from a USB device
  162. Downloading the 6.1.0 image using the relative path
  163. Updating the firmwarekey
  164. The firmwareDownload command
  165. Testing and restoring firmware on switches
  166. Testing and restoring firmware on directors
  167. Validating firmwareDownload
  168. Administering Advanced Zoning
  169. Zone types
  170. Zone objects
  171. Zoning schemes
  172. Zoning enforcement
  173. Enforcing hardware zoning
  174. Hardware-enforced nonoverlapping zones
  175. Hardware-enforced overlapping zones
  176. Considerations for zoning architecture
  177. Best practices for zoning
  178. Broadcast zones and FC-FC routing
  179. Creating and managing zone aliases
  180. Creating and maintaining zones
  181. Default zoning mode
  182. Merging zones
  183. Resulting database size: 96K to 128K
  184. Resulting database size: 256K to 1M
  185. Creating and modifying zoning configurations
  186. Maintaining zone objects
  187. Managing zoning configurations in a fabric
  188. Fabric segmentation
  189. Configuring Directors
  190. Director port numbering schemes
  191. Default index/area_ID core PID assignment with no port swap
  192. Basic blade management
  193. Powering port blades off and on
  194. FC4-48 and FC8-48 blade exceptions
  195. Blade terminology and compatibility
  196. Core blades
  197. Displaying slot information
  198. Inter Chassis Link behavior between two HP StorageWorks DC Directors
  199. Routing traffic
  200. Static route assignment
  201. Dynamic load sharing
  202. Viewing routing path information
  203. Viewing routing information along a path
  204. Implementing an interoperable fabric
  205. Configuring the Distributed Management Server
  206. Enabling platform services
  207. Adding a member to the ACL
  208. Deleting a member from the ACL
  209. Viewing the contents of the management server database
  210. iSCSI Gateway services
  211. Basic versus advanced LUN mapping
  212. Advanced LUN mapping
  213. Changing and displaying the IQN prefix
  214. Switch-to-iSCSI initiator authentication
  215. Enabling and disabling connection redirection for load balancing
  216. Supported iSCSI initiators
  217. FC4-16IP Blade Configuration
  218. Enabling the iSCSI gateway service
  219. Configuring the GbE interface
  220. iSCSI Virtual Target Configuration
  221. Automatic iSCSI VT creation
  222. Generating an iSCSI VT for a specific FC target
  223. Mapping LUNs on a specific port to an iSCSI VT
  224. Displaying the iSCSI virtual target LUN map
  225. Displaying iSCSI initiator IQNs
  226. iSCSI initiator-to-VT authentication configuration
  227. Deleting user names from an iSCSI VT binding list
  228. Resolving conflicts between iSCSI configurations
  229. iSCSI FC zoning overview
  230. iSCSI FC zone creation
  231. Zoning configuration creation
  232. iSNS client service configuration
  233. Disabling the iSNS client service
  234. Clearing the iSNS client configuration
  235. Administering NPIV
  236. Configuration scenarios
  237. Displaying login information
  238. Optimizing fabric behavior
  239. TI zone failover
  240. General rules for TI zones
  241. Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation
  242. Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation
  243. Modifying TI zones
  244. Activating and deactivating a TI zone
  245. Deleting a TI zone
  246. QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
  247. QoS zones
  248. QoS on E_Ports
  249. Setting traffic prioritization
  250. Using the FC-FC Routing Service
  251. A metaSAN with interfabric links
  252. A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics
  253. Proxy devices
  254. Routing types
  255. Setting up the FC-FC routing service
  256. Performing verification checks
  257. Assigning backbone fabric IDs
  258. Configuring FCIP tunnels (optional)
  259. Configuring DH-CHAP secret
  260. Configuring an interfabric link
  261. portCfgExport options
  262. Configuring the FC router port cost (optional)
  263. Using router port cost
  264. Port cost considerations
  265. Configuring EX_Port frame trunking (optional)
  266. Supported configurations and platforms
  267. Configuring LSANs and zoning
  268. Defining and naming zones
  269. LSAN zone binding (optional)
  270. Dual backbone configuration
  271. Configuring backbone fabrics for interconnectivity
  272. Broadcast configuration
  273. Monitoring resources
  274. Routing ECHO
  275. Interoperability with legacy FCR switches
  276. Backward compatibility
  277. Range of output ports
  278. Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring
  279. End-to-end performance monitoring
  280. Setting a mask for end-to-end monitors
  281. Advanced Performance Monitoring commands
  282. Monitoring AL_PAs
  283. Setting a mask for an end-to-end monitor
  284. Filter-based performance monitoring
  285. Adding custom filter-based monitors
  286. Deleting filter-based monitors
  287. Top Talker monitors
  288. Deleting a Top Talker monitor on an F_Port
  289. Using Top Talker monitors in fabric mode
  290. Limitations of Top Talker monitors
  291. Clearing monitor counters
  292. Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  293. Administering Extended Fabrics
  294. Fibre Channel data frames
  295. FC switch port Buffer Credit requirements for long distance calculations
  296. Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group
  297. Switch, port speed, and distance with ASIC and buffers
  298. Buffer credit recovery
  299. Configuring an extended ISL
  300. Extended ISL modes: B-Series 2Gb Switches (Bloom and Bloom II ASICs)
  301. Administering ISL Trunking
  302. Standard trunking criteria
  303. Initializing trunking on ports
  304. Displaying port throughput performance
  305. Enabling and disabling ISL Trunking
  306. Setting port speeds
  307. Setting the same speed for all ports on the switch
  308. Displaying trunking information
  309. Trunking over Extended Fabrics
  310. Switch in Access Gateway mode without F_Port trunking
  311. F_Port masterless trunking considerations
  312. Setting up F_Port trunking
  313. Assigning a Trunk area
  314. Enabling F_Port trunking
  315. Enabling the DCC policy on trunk
  316. Disabling F_Port trunking
  317. Configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services
  318. Platforms that support SAN extension over IP
  319. FCIP concepts
  320. Compression
  321. IPSec concepts and implementation over FCIP
  322. IPSec terminology
  323. Options for enhancing tape write I/O performance
  324. FCIP fastwrite/tape pipelining configurations
  325. Unsupported configurations
  326. FICON emulation concepts
  327. XRC emulation
  328. FCIP services configuration guidelines
  329. Configuring IPSec
  330. IPSec parameters
  331. Managing policies
  332. Persistently disabling ports
  333. Configuring IP interfaces and IP routes
  334. Configuring FCIP tunnels
  335. Configuring FICON emulation
  336. Configuring FTRACE
  337. Enabling persistently disabled ports
  338. Modify and delete command options
  339. Modifying/deleting QoS Settings
  340. Deleting an fcip tunnel
  341. Troubleshooting FCIP links
  342. WAN performance analysis tools
  343. WAN tool performance characteristics
  344. WAN tool ipPerf syntax
  345. using portcmd ping
  346. using portcmd traceroute
  347. fcip tunnel performance characteristics
  348. FICON fabrics
  349. Supported switches
  350. FICON commands
  351. User security considerations
  352. Preparing a switch
  353. Setting a unique Domain ID
  354. Displaying information
  355. Swapping ports
  356. Setup summary
  357. Setting up CUP when FICON Management Server mode is enabled
  358. Displaying mode register bit settings
  359. Setting mode register bits
  360. Port and switch naming standards
  361. Troubleshooting
  362. Backing up and restoring FICON configuration files
  363. Recording configuration information
  364. Sample IOCP configuration file
  365. Configuring and monitoring FICON Extension Services
  366. Platforms that support FICON extension over IP
  367. FCIP Configuration requirements for FICON extension
  368. Cross-coupled configurations
  369. Tape Write Pipelining
  370. Displaying FICON emulation configuration values
  371. FICON performance statistics
  372. Monitoring FICON emulation
  373. A Configuring the PID format
  374. Impact of changing the fabric PID format
  375. Changes to configuration data
  376. Evaluating the fabric
  377. Planning the update procedure
  378. Offline update
  379. Converting port number to area ID
  380. Performing PID format changes
  381. HP/UX procedure
  382. AIX procedure
  383. Swapping port area IDs
  384. B Understanding legacy password behaviour
  385. Password prompting behaviors
  386. Password migration during firmware changes
  387. C Interoperating with an M-EOS fabric
  388. D Migrating from an MP Router to a 400 MP Router
  389. Redundant configuration
  390. Devices directly connected to router
  391. E Using Remote Switch
  392. Zone merging scenarios
  394. Network using FCIP
  395. Index
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  12. About this guide
  13. Document conventions and symbols
  14. Rack stability
  15. HP websites
  16. HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch Overview
  17. Hardware components
  18. Port side of the DC SAN Director
  19. Non-port side of the DC SAN Director
  20. DC SAN Director blades
  21. High availability
  22. Software features
  23. Network manageability
  24. Optional hardware kits
  25. DC SAN Director Installation
  26. Site preparation, unpacking the DC SAN Director
  27. Items included with the DC SAN Director
  28. U Rack Mount Kit parts list
  29. U Rack Mount Kit contents
  30. Attaching the shelf brackets
  31. Left and right shelf brackets installed on rails
  32. Shelf bracket and clip or retainer nut placement on cabinet rails
  33. Removing the chassis door
  34. Positioning the DC SAN Director for installation in a cabinet
  35. Replacing the chassis door
  36. Aligning the DC SAN Director door with the chassis
  37. Powering on the DC SAN Director
  38. Managing cables
  39. ICL connectors on CR8 blade
  40. Inter-chassis link (ICL) connections (configuration 1)
  41. Inter-chassis link (ICL) connections (configuration 2)
  42. Inter-chassis link (ICL) connections (configuration 3)
  43. Inter-chassis link (ICL) connections (configuration 4)
  44. DC SAN Director log in and configuration
  45. Configuring IP addresses
  46. Establishing an Ethernet connection
  47. Customizing a switch name
  48. Verifying the Port Identifier mode and connecting to the fabric
  49. Back up the configuration
  50. Monitoring DC SAN Director system components
  51. FC8-16 Director blade
  52. FC8-32 Director blade
  53. FC8-48 Director blade
  54. FC10-6 Director blade
  55. FR4-18i Director blade
  56. Monitoring Control Processor blade (CP8) status
  57. Control Processor blade (CP8)
  58. Monitoring core switch blade (CR8) status
  59. Core switch blade (CR8)
  60. Monitoring power supply status
  61. Monitoring blower assembly status
  62. Blower assembly
  63. Monitoring WWN bezel (logo plate) and WWN card status
  64. WWN bezel (logo plate)
  65. Replacing DC SAN Director field-replaceable units (FRUs)
  66. Installing the chassis door
  67. Installing a cable management comb
  68. Removing a Director blade
  69. Installing a Director blade
  70. Replacing a Director blade filler panel
  71. Installing a filler panel
  72. How to determine whether or not to replace a CP blade
  73. Removing a control processor blade (CP8)
  74. Installing a control processor blade (CP8)
  75. Verifying operation of the new CP blade
  76. Replacing a core switch blade (CR8)
  77. Installing a core switch blade (CR8)
  78. Replacing a power supply
  79. Replacing a blower assembly
  80. Installing a blower assembly
  81. Replacing the WWN bezel (logo plate) and WWN card
  82. WWN LED patterns
  83. Removing the WWN bezel (logo plate) and WWN card
  84. Installing the WWN bezel (logo plate) and WWN card
  85. Replacing SFPs and XFPs
  86. Replacing the DC SAN Director chassis
  87. Recording critical DC SAN Director and SAN information
  88. Disconnecting from the network and the fabric
  89. Removing components from the chassis
  90. Installing components into the new chassis
  91. Verifying that the system is operating correctly
  92. Reconnecting to the network and the fabric
  93. Cable routing table
  94. HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Backbone Director Switch Overview
  96. Port side of the DC04 SAN Director
  97. Port side of the DC04 SAN Director (sample configuration)
  98. Non-port side of the DC04 SAN Director
  99. DC04 SAN Director blades
  100. Reliability
  101. Serviceability
  102. Security
  103. Optional software licenses
  104. DC04 SAN Director orderable hardware
  105. DC04 SAN Director Installation
  106. Site preparation, unpacking the DC04 SAN Director
  107. Items included with the DC04 SAN Director
  108. Rack mount kit contents
  109. Torque requirements
  110. Installing the cabinet hardware
  111. Clip and retainer nut locations on cabinet rails
  112. Installing the shelf in the cabinet
  113. Installing the DC04 SAN Director in the cabinet
  115. Installing the DC04 SAN Director shipping brackets
  116. DC04 SAN Director shipping brackets (left side)
  117. Powering on the DC04 SAN Director
  118. Port numbering
  119. Using the optional HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) cable kit
  120. ICL connectors on CR4S-8 blade
  121. DC04 SAN Director ICL cabling
  122. DC04 SAN Director to DC SAN Director ICL cabling
  123. DC04 SAN Director log in and configuration
  124. Default IP addresses and password
  126. Setting the domain ID
  127. Setting the date and time
  128. Synchronizing local time
  129. Enabling software licenses
  130. Monitoring DC04 SAN Director system components
  135. FR4-18i router blade
  138. Monitoring core switch blade (CR4S-8) status
  139. Core switch blade (CR4S-8)
  140. CR4S-8 blade LED descriptions
  141. Power supply
  142. Blower assembly LED descriptions
  143. Messages that may indicate WWN card failure
  145. Replacing DC04 SAN Director field-replaceable units (FRUs)
  146. Replacing the vertical cable management assembly
  147. Installing a cable management finger assembly
  148. Removing a blade
  149. Installing a blade
  150. Replacing a blade filler panel
  151. Replacing a control processor blade (CP8)
  152. Recording critical DC04 SAN Director information
  156. Replacing a core switch blade (CR4S-8)
  157. How to determine whether or not to replace a core switch blade
  158. Installing a core switch blade
  159. Removing a power supply
  161. Removing a blower assembly
  162. How to determine whether or not to replace a WWN card
  163. Commands identifying the WWN card status
  164. WWN card related system log messages
  167. Replacing the DC04 SAN Director chassis
  168. Verifying the need for replacing the chassis
  171. Configuring the new chassis serial number
  174. Verifying that the configuration of the fabric is correct
  175. Cable routing table for DC04 SAN Director (48 ports shown)
  176. A Technical specifications
  177. System architecture
  178. System size and weight
  179. System blade and FRU weights
  180. Power specifications
  181. Power cords
  182. Power cords (Japan, Denan)
  183. Fibre Channel port specifications
  184. Data transmission ranges
  185. B Intelligent blades
  186. Optional items
  187. B-Series MP Router blade (FR4-18i) components
  188. Configuring FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services and enable the ports
  189. Recommendations for cable management
  190. C Regulatory compliance and safety notices
  191. Laser device
  192. Laser product label
  193. Japanese notice
  194. Environmental regulation compliance
  195. Safety guidelines
  196. Grounding methods
  197. Taiwan battery recycling notice
  198. D Port numbering templates
  199. Port side populated with eight FC8-48 port blades, two CR8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  200. Port side populated with eight FC8-32 port blades, two CR8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  201. Port side populated with eight FC8-16 port blades, two CR8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  202. FC10-6 port blades
  204. HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Backbone Director Switch templates
  205. Port side populated with four FC8-48 port blades, two CR4S-8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  206. Port side populated with four FC8-32 port blades, two CR4S-8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  207. Port side populated with four FC8-16 port blades, two CR4S-8 blades, and two CP8 blades
  209. FR4-18i router blades
  210. Index
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  2. update recommendation
  3. fcr enhancements
  4. optionally licensed software
  5. temporary license support
  6. new hardware support
  7. operating systems
  8. important notes
  9. webtools compatibility
  10. virtual fabrics
  11. traffic isolation over fcr
  12. integrated routing
  13. port mirroring
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Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. new feature descriptions
  3. optionally licensed software
  4. temporary license support
  5. standards compliance
  6. operating systems
  7. important notes
  8. other important notes and recommendations
  9. virtual fabrics
  10. fibre channel routing
  11. access gateway
  12. port mirroring
  13. web tools functionality moved to dcfm
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

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Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. update recommendation
  3. new feature descriptions
  4. optionally licensed software
  5. temporary license support
  6. operating systems
  7. important notes
  8. fabric os compatibility
  9. other important notes and recommendations
  10. traffic isolation over fcr
  11. port mirroring
  12. fabric watch
  13. web tools functionality moved to dcfm
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

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Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. access gateway
  3. port mirroring
  4. new hardware support
  5. operating systems
  6. important notes
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 first page preview

AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

Brand: HP | Category: Switch
Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. access gateway
  3. port mirroring
  4. new hardware support
  5. operating systems
  6. important notes
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

Brand: HP | Category: Switch
Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. new hardware support
  3. operating systems
  4. access gateway
  5. port mirroring
  6. important notes
  7. web tools functionality moved to dcfm
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

Brand: HP | Category: Software
Table of contents
  1. release notes
  2. access gateway
  3. port mirroring
  4. operating systems
  5. important notes
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AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12

Brand: HP | Category: Desktop
Table of contents
  1. Future of PCI-X slots in ProLiant servers
  2. Port monitoring in Virtual Connect for the c-Class BladeSystem
  3. Licensing ports on the Brocade 4/12 SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
  4. Frequently asked questions regarding the adoption of HP VDI
  5. Volume 6, Number
  6. ProLiant management tip of the month
  7. Recently published industry standard server technology communications
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Table of contents
  1. Table Of Contents
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Table Of Contents
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Table Of Contents
  8. Table Of Contents
  9. Table Of Contents
  10. Table Of Contents
  11. Table Of Contents
  12. Table Of Contents
  13. About this Guide
  14. Intended audience
  15. HP technical support
  16. Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures
  17. About the CLI
  18. Help information
  19. Performing basic configuration tasks
  20. Setting the default account passwords
  21. Changing default passwords summary
  22. How to change default passwords at login
  23. How to display network interface settings
  24. Configuring DHCP
  25. Setting the date and time
  26. How to set the time zone
  27. How to set the time zone interactively
  28. Synchronizing local time
  29. Maintaining licensed software features
  30. How to generate or activate a license key
  31. How to remove a licensed feature
  32. Customizing a switch name
  33. Customizing the chassis name
  34. How to display domain IDs
  35. Ports on Demand license summary for applicable switches
  36. Configuring Dynamic Ports on Demand
  37. Activating Dynamic Ports on Demand
  38. Managing licenses
  39. Releasing a port
  40. Disabling and enabling a switch
  41. How to enable a port
  42. Linking through a gateway
  43. Checking status
  44. Tracking and controlling switch changes
  45. How to display the status of the track changes feature
  46. How to set the switch status policy threshold values
  47. Configuring the audit log
  48. How to verify host syslog prior to configuring the audit log
  49. How to configure an audit log for specific event classes
  50. To power off a switch gracefully (5.1.0 and later)
  51. Managing user accounts
  52. Role Permissions
  53. Configuring the authentication model
  54. About the default accounts
  55. How to create an account
  56. How to change account parameters
  57. Recovering accounts
  58. How to change the password for a different account
  59. How to accept the user database
  60. How to set the password history policy
  61. Upgrade and downgrade considerations
  62. Creating Fabric OS user accounts
  63. Windows 2000 IAS
  64. RADIUS configuration and admin domains
  65. Configuring the RADIUS server
  66. Linux
  67. How to enable clients
  68. How to configure RADIUS users
  69. Configuring RADIUS servers on the switch
  70. How to display the current RADIUS configuration
  71. How to enable and disable a RADIUS server
  72. Enabling and disabling local authentication as backup
  73. SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director
  74. How to set the boot PROM password for a Director without a recovery string
  76. How to recover passwords
  77. Configuring standard security features
  78. Ensuring network security
  79. Configuring the telnet interface
  80. Blocking listeners
  81. Configuring for the SSL protocol
  82. Browser and Java support
  83. Generating a public/private key
  84. Obtaining certificates
  85. Activating a switch certificate
  86. Installing a root certificate to the Java Plug-in
  87. Troubleshooting certificates
  88. Setting the security level
  89. Using legacy commands for SNMPv1
  90. Configuring secure file copy
  91. Configuring advanced security
  92. Configuring ACL policies
  93. Displaying ACL policies
  94. DCC policy restrictions
  95. Examples of creating DCC policies
  96. Saving changes to ACL policies
  97. Adding a member to an existing policy
  98. Aborting all uncommitted changes
  99. Configuring the database distribution settings
  100. Distributing ACL policies to other switches
  101. Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide
  102. Notes on joining a switch to the fabric
  103. Matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  104. Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
  105. Maintaining configurations
  106. to upload a configuration file
  107. Troubleshooting configuration upload
  108. Configuration download without disabling a switch
  109. Security considerations
  110. Restoring configurations in a FICON environment
  111. SAN Director configuration form
  112. Managing administrative domains
  113. Admin domain features
  114. Requirements for admin domains
  115. System-defined administrative domains
  116. Admin domain access levels
  117. Admin domains and login
  118. Switch port members
  119. Fabric showing switch and device WWNs
  120. Admin domain compatibility and availability
  121. Managing admin domains
  122. Implementing admin domains
  123. Assigning a user to an admin domain
  124. Activating and deactivating admin domains
  125. Adding and removing admin domain members
  126. Renaming an Admin Domain
  127. Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
  128. Using Admin Domains
  129. Displaying an Admin Domain configuration
  130. Performing zone validation
  131. Admin Domains, zones, and zone databases
  132. Admin Domains and LSAN zones
  133. Configuration upload and download in an AD context
  134. Installing and maintaining firmware
  135. Effects of firmware changes on accounts and passwords
  136. Checking connected switches
  137. Summary of the firmware download process
  138. Summary of firmware downloads on Director models
  139. SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director firmware download procedure
  140. Testing and restoring firmware on switches
  141. Testing and restoring firmware-on Directors
  142. Validating the firmware download
  143. Troubleshooting firmware download
  144. Pre-installation messages
  145. Blade troubleshooting tips
  146. Configuring Directors
  147. By slot and port number
  148. Basic blade management
  149. MP Router exceptions
  150. Blade terminology and compatibility
  151. CP blades
  152. Obtaining slot information
  153. Configuring a new SAN Director 2/128 with two domains
  154. Converting an installed SAN Director 2/128 to support two domains
  155. Setting the blade beacon mode
  156. Routing traffic
  157. Assigning a static route
  158. Using Dynamic Load Sharing
  159. Viewing routing path information
  160. Viewing routing information along a path
  161. Using the FC-FC routing service
  162. A metaSAN with interfabric links
  163. Front domain consolidation
  164. Using front domain consolidation
  165. Range of output ports
  166. Routing types
  167. Fibre Channel NAT and phantom domains
  168. Performing verification checks
  169. Assigning backbone fabric IDs
  170. Configuring FCIP tunnels (optional)
  171. Configuring an interfabric link
  172. portcfgexport options
  173. Configuring LSANs and zoning
  174. Configuring backbone fabrics for Interconnectivity
  175. Upgrade, downgrade, and HA considerations
  176. Setting a proxy PID
  177. EX_Port frame trunking (optional)
  178. Using EX_Port Frame trunking
  179. Monitoring resources
  180. Routing ECHO
  181. Interoperability with legacy FCR switches
  182. Connecting to HP M-Series or McDATA SANs
  183. Connectivity modes
  184. configuring interoperability
  185. Configuring M-Series or McDATA for interconnection
  186. SAN Pilot and EFCM zone screens
  187. Pending Zone Set list in SAN Pilot and EFCM zone screens
  188. LSAN zoning with McDATA
  189. Completing the configuration
  190. Administering FICON fabrics
  191. Supported switches
  192. Types of FICON configurations
  193. FICON commands
  194. Configuring switches
  195. Preparing a switch
  196. Setting a unique domain ID
  197. Displaying information
  198. FRU failures
  199. Using FICON CUP
  200. Enabling and disabling FICON management server mode
  201. Setting up CUP when FICON management server mode is enabled
  202. Displaying mode register bit settings
  203. Setting mode register bits
  204. Port and switch naming standards
  205. Troubleshooting
  206. Backing up FICON files
  207. SAN Director switches
  208. Sample RMF configuration file for mainframe
  209. Configuring the distributed manager server
  210. Controlling access
  211. Configuring the server database
  212. Controlling topology discovery
  213. Working with diagnostic features
  214. Viewing switch status
  215. Viewing port information
  216. Viewing equipment status
  217. Viewing the system message log
  218. Viewing the port log
  219. Configuring for syslogd
  220. Configuring the switch
  221. Viewing and saving diagnostic information
  222. Most common problem areas
  223. Gathering information for technical support
  224. Analyzing connection problems
  225. To check for zoning problems
  226. To download a correct configuration
  227. To correct a fabric merge problem quickly
  228. To edit zone configuration members
  229. To check fan components
  230. Correcting device login issues
  231. Identifying media-related issues
  232. To test a switch's internal components
  233. Correcting link failures
  234. To check for a point-to-point initialization failure
  235. Correcting marginal links
  236. Inaccurate information in the system message log
  237. Port mirroring
  238. Supported hardware
  239. How port mirroring works
  240. Port mirroring considerations
  241. Creating, deleting, and displaying port mirroring
  242. Administering NPIV
  243. Configuration scenarios
  244. Displaying login information
  245. Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM)
  246. Displaying and clearing the CRC error count
  247. Adding end-to-end monitors
  248. Setting a mask for end-to-end monitors
  249. Deleting end-to-end monitors
  250. Monitoring filter-based performance
  251. Adding custom filter-ased monitors
  252. Deleting filter-based monitors
  253. Monitoring ISL performance
  254. Displaying monitor counters
  255. Clearing monitor counters
  256. Saving and restoring monitor configurations
  257. Administering Extended Fabrics
  258. Choosing an Extended ISL mode
  259. Configuring external ports
  260. Configuring an extended ISL
  261. Administering ISL Trunking
  262. Standard trunking criteria
  263. Initializing trunking on ports
  264. Monitoring traffic
  265. Enabling and disabling ISL trunking
  266. Setting port speeds
  267. Displaying trunking information
  268. Trunking over Extended Fabrics
  269. Troubleshooting trunking problems
  270. Administering Advanced Zoning
  271. Zone types
  272. zone objects
  273. Zone objects
  274. Hardware-enforced Zoning
  275. Hardware-enforced non-overlapping Zones
  276. Hardware-enforced overlapping zones
  277. Rules for configuring zones
  278. To create an alias
  279. To delete an alias
  280. To add devices (members) to a zone
  281. Activating default zones
  282. Creating and modifying Zoning configurations
  283. To remove zones (members) from a zone configuration
  284. To view selected zone configuration information
  285. Maintaining zone objects
  286. To delete a zone object
  287. Managing Zoning configurations in a fabric
  288. Splitting a fabric
  289. Configuring and monitoring FCIP tunneling
  290. FCIP licensing
  291. Network using FCIP
  292. Port numbering on the B-Series MP Router blade
  293. Port Numbering on the 400 MP Router
  294. configuring ipsec
  295. ipsec parameters
  296. managing policies
  297. Configuring FCIP tunnels
  298. defining the ip interface of each virtual port
  299. configuring the gbe ports
  300. verifying ip connectivity
  301. supported configurations
  302. unsupported configurations
  303. fcip tunnel modify and delete options
  304. verifying the fcip tunnel configuration
  305. Checklist for configuring FCIP links
  306. about the ipperf option
  307. wan tool performance characteristics
  308. wan tool ipperf syntax
  309. A Configuring the PID format
  310. Impact of changing the fabric PID format
  311. Selecting a PID format
  312. Evaluating the fabric
  313. Planning the update procedure
  314. Hybrid update
  315. Changing to extended edge PID format
  316. Converting port number to area ID
  317. SAN Director With Extended Edge PID
  318. Performing PID format changes
  319. HP/UX procedure
  320. AIX procedure
  321. Swapping port area IDs
  322. B Configuring interoperability mode
  323. Configuration recommendations
  324. Zoning restrictions
  325. Zone name restrictions
  326. C Understanding legacy password behaviour
  327. Password prompting behaviors
  328. Password migration during firmware changes
  329. D Using Remote Switch
  330. E Zone merging scenarios
  331. Index
  332. Correcting I2C bus errors
  333. Recovering forgotten passwords
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