Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Service-Handbuch

53-1000606-01

Oct 2007

Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v6.0.0

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Document History

The following table lists all versions of the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide.

Document Title Publication

Number Summary of Changes Publication

Date

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.0 53-0001536-01 N/A September 1999

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.2 53-0001558-02 N/A May 2000

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.3 53-0000067-02 N/A December 2000

Web Tools User’s Guide v3.0 53-0000130-03 N/A July 2001

Web Tools User’s Guide v2.6 53-0000197-02 N/A December 2001

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide

v3.0 / v4.0

53-0000185-02 N/A March 2002

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide v4.0.2

53-0000185-03 N/A September 2002

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide v3.1.0

53-0000503-02 N/A April 2003

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide v4.1.0

53-0000522-02 N/A April 2003

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide v4.1.2

53-0000522-04 Insistent Domain ID Mode.

Port Swapping information. Minor

editorial changes

October 2003

Advanced Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide,

v4.2.0

53-0000522-05 Updates to support new switch

types: Brocade 3250, 3850,

24000. Structural changes,

Support changes, Installation

changes.

December 2003

Advanced Web Tools User’s

Guide

53-0000522-06 Clarifications on software and

hardware support, minor

enhancements in procedure text,

minor rearranging of content.

March 2004

Advanced Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide

53-0000522-07 Updates to support new switch

types (3016, 4100) and Fabric OS

v4.4.0, including Ports on

Demand, user administration,

and zoning wizards.

September 2004

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-0000522-08 Updates to support new switch

types (200E, 48000) and Fabric

OS v5.0.1, including switchAdmin

role, upfront login, and Web Tools

EZ.

April 2005

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-0000522-09 Updates to add additional

information about refresh and

polling rates.

July 2005

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000049-01 Updates to support new switch

types (4900, 7500) and Fabric

OS v5.1.0, including FCR, FCIP,

and the FR4-18i port blade. Web

Tools EZ information is moved to

a separate book.

January 2006

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000049-02 Updates to the FCIP chapter to

clarify how to configure tunnels.

April 2006

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000194-01 Updates for Fabric OS v5.2.0 and

the FC4-16IP blade. Also new

security for Web Tools, including

Role-Based Access Control and

administrative domains.

September 2006

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000435-01 Updates to reflect interface

enhancements, support for new

switch types, IPv6 support, and

other enhancements.

June 2007

Web Tools Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000606-01 Updates to reflect updates to

enhanced Access Gateway

support, changes to FCIP

tunneling wizard, and other

enhancements.

October 2007

Document Title Publication

Number Summary of Changes Publication

Date

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Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Setting Refresh Frequency for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications . . . 3

Installing Java on the workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation. . . 4

Installing patches on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Configuring the Java plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers . . . . . . 6

Installing a Web Tools license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing a Web Tools license through telnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing a Web Tools license through a Web site. . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing other licenses through the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Admin Domains and login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Admin Domains and switch WWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Admin Domains and zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Managing fabrics and switches using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Refreshing the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Opening the telnet window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Configuring IP and netmask information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting Up IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Managing blades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Configuring a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Rebooting the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing system configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Managing licensed features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Administering High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Launching the High Availability Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Synchronizing Services on the CP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Initiating a CP Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

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Monitoring events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Displaying Fabric Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Filtering Fabric and Switch Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Displaying a fabric summary report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Displaying detailed Name Server information for a particular device

Displaying the zone members of a particular device . . . . . . . . 51

Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Maintaining configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Creating a backup of a configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 5 Managing Your Ports

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Viewing and managing ports using Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Opening the Port Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Identifying controllable ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Configuring ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Configuring FCIP ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Configuring GbE ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Enabling and disabling NPIV ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Enabling NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Disabling NPIV ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Enabling and disabling QoS ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Enabling QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Disabling QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Activating ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Swapping port index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Swapping ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Determining if a port index has been swapped with another switch

port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 6 Administering ISL Trunking

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

About Interswitch Link Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Viewing trunk group information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Disabling or reenabling trunking mode on a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Chapter 7 Managing Administrative Domains

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

About administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Enabling administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Saving local admin domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Creating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Managing administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Adding and removing members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Renaming Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

Deleting Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Chapter 8 Administering Zoning

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Introducing zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Configuring zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

Managing zoning with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Refreshing Zone Administration window information . . . . . . . .99

Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Closing the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Select a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

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Managing zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .102

Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Managing zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Copying zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Managing zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . . 107

Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Copying zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Displaying zone configuration summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Creating configuration analysis reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Displaying zones Initiator/Target accessibility. . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Managing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .113

Replacing a WWN in Multiple Aliases and Zones . . . . . . . . . .114

Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Clearing the Zoning Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Using Zoning Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Interoperability considerations for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Chapter 9 Monitoring Performance

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Monitoring performance using Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Predefined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

User-defined graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Canvas configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Creating basic performance monitor graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Creating advanced performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . .126

Creating SID-DID Performance Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Creating an SCSI vs. IP Traffic Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Creating SCSI Command Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Creating AL_PA Error Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

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Managing performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Saving graphs to a canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Printing a single graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Printing all graphs in a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Modifying graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Chapter 10 Using the FC-FC Routing Service

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Supported switches for fibre channel routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

About fibre channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Setting up FC-FC routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Managing FC-FC routing with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Opening the FC Routing module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Viewing and configuring EX_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Configuring an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Editing the configuration of an EX_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Configuring FCR router port cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Viewing and configuring LSAN zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Viewing LSAN Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Configuring the backbone fabric ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Chapter 11 Working With Diagnostic Features

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Managing trace dumps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

How a trace dump is used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Setting up automatic trace dump transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Specifying a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Enabling automatic transfer of trace dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Disabling automatic trace uploads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Displaying switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Viewing detailed fan hardware status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Viewing the temperature status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Viewing the power supply status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Interpreting port LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Port icon colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

LED representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Brocade 48000 Director LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Chapter 12 Administering Fabric Watch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Introduction to Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Opening the Fabric Watch window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

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