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Fabric Manager

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric Manager 5.4.0

Supporting Fabric OS 6.0.0

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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

Brocade Fabric Manager User’s

Guide, v3.0

53-0000204-01 N/A October 2001

Brocade Fabric Manager User’s

Guide, v4.0

53-0000823-02 N/A April 2003

Brocade Fabric Manager User’s

Guide, v4.1.0

53-0000823-04 N/A September

2003

Brocade Fabric Manager User’s

Guide, v4.1.1

53-0000823-05 Editorial & structural changes, aligned

information with online help information,

updated Call Home feature information,

updated link icons, additional troubleshooting

information.

December

2003

Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-06 Updated to include switch specific information. March 2004

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Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-07 Editorial & structural changes, included new

feature support since Fabric Manager 4.1.1,

updated graphics, updated troubleshooting

information.

May 2004

Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-08 Editorial & structural changes, device node

and device port name support, and minor

adjustment for database change.

July 2004

Fabric Manager User’s Guide 53-0000823-09 Editorial & structural changes, added support

for SilkWorm 4100, 4 Gbit/sec support, and

end-to-end performance monitoring; also

revised installation, firmware download, fabric

merge, admin password on multiple switches,

and enable security sections.

October 2004

Fabric Manager Administrator’s

Guide

53-0000823-10 Editorial & structural changes, including new

feature support; also revised installation and

overview sections and book title.

April 2005

Fabric Manager Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000042-01 Added support for SilkWorm 4900, 7500, and

FR4-18i port blade; added support for Fabric

OS v5.1.0 features, such as FCIP Tunneling

and FC-FC Routing Service.

February 2006

Fabric Manager Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000196-01 Added support for FR4-16IP port blade; added

support for Fabric OS v5.2.0 features, such as

Admin Domains and iSCSI; added offline

zoning. Revised Fabric Manager client

information throughout.

October 2006

Fabric Manager Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000443-01 Rebranded; added new features for 5.3.0

release such as Access Gateway visibility,

MetaSAN View, FCIP tunneling; improved

scalability, updated screens.

March 2007

Fabric Manager Administrator’s

Guide

53-1000610-01, Added information for newly supported

feautres in v5.4 features such as ICL support,

IPv6 support, VLAN Tag support, FICON

Emulation parameters support, and updated

screens.

October 2007

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Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

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

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv

Chapter 1 Introducing Fabric Manager

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

Overview of Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Browser and platform requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Fabric and switch access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Administrative Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 2 Installation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Planning for the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installation and troubleshooting information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Upgrading Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

License keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Upgrading from the evaluation version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing the Fabric Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing Fabric Manager server on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Installing Fabric Manager server on Solaris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Installing Fabric Manager server on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Copying an installation from server to server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Uninstalling the Fabric Manager server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Chapter 3 Fabric Manager Client

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Launching Fabric Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Notes on logging in to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Uninstalling the Fabric Manager client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Understanding the Fabric Manager layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Scope panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

View panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Task panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Information panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Status indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Refreshing the window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Selecting elements and accessing modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Customizing Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Displaying fabrics by IP address, domain ID, WWN, and name 52

Customizing tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Filtering elements in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Customizing tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Resizing panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Resetting to Default Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Configuring Event Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 4 Discovering and Customizing Fabrics

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

Discovering a fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

About FCS Policy and seed switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Discovering a single fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Discovering multiple fabrics (subnet scan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Logging in to multiple switches simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Monitoring fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing the seed switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Deleting a fabric from Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

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Renaming fabric components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Renaming a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Renaming a switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Renaming a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Renaming a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Importing device names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Working with switch and port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Understanding the groups view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating and populating switch groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Editing a switch group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Creating port groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Editing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Deleting a switch or port group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 5 Viewing Fabric Topologies

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Understanding the View panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

View panel toolbar items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Viewing tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Selecting items in the topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Changing the layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Saving view preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Topology views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Displaying monitored fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Displaying backbone and edge fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Displaying switch interconnectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Displaying attached devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Displaying zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Viewing link information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Chapter 6 Displaying Name Server Information

Chapter 7 Monitoring Alerts and Events

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

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Monitoring Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Viewing alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Identifying alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Filtering alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Acknowledging alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Resolving alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Deleting alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Configuring alert display options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Monitoring fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Viewing fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Viewing all events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Filtering fabric events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Configuring notification parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Chapter 8 Using Performance Monitoring

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Overview of performance monitoring in Fabric Manager . . . . . . . .111

Performance monitoring components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Configuring port data collection and alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Enabling end-to-end monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Disabling performance monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Generating custom reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Creating custom reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Creating real time graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Creating and using report templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Creating templates for reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Generating reports and graphs from templates . . . . . . . . . . .129

Saving Performance Monitor reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Printing Performance Monitor reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Exporting reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Displaying saved reports and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Deleting reports and graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Editing End-to-End Monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Displaying End-to-End Monitor reports in external applications . .133

Chapter 9 Change Management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

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Overview of change management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Using change management profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Creating a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

Cloning a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Editing a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Deleting a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Using snapshots and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Displaying a change report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Creating snapshots on demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Comparing snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Exporting snapshot and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Exporting switch configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Displaying change reports in external applications. . . . . . . . .144

Printing snapshot and change reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Changing baseline snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Chapter 10 Call Home Support

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

About call home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Call home e-mail messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Call home external executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Call home modem support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Configuring call home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Editing configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Enabling or disabling call home globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Monitoring call home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Chapter 11 Switch Configuration and Management

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Viewing port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Synchronizing date and time across a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Opening a Telnet session for a nonsecure switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Enabling and disabling switches and ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Configuring ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Swapping ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

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Administering ISL trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Administering license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Exporting license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Importing and restoring license keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Removing license keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Using configuration management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Switch configuration backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Viewing the configuration repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Replicating configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Replicating a switch SNMP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Replicating a switch Fabric Watch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . 174

Replicating an entire switch configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Saving switch configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Checking the physical health of a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Replacing a switch in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Configuring Asset Polling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Configuring a Domain ID on a phantom switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Chapter 12 Managing Access Gateway-moded Switches

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Introduction to Access Gateway Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Supported Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Showing Access Gateway-moded switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Discovering an Access Gateway switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Viewing Access Gateway moded switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Backing up Access Gateway-moded switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Configuring an access gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Performing a Firmware Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Chapter 13 Configuring Standard Security Features

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

A note about security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Managing passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Enabling and disabling switch passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Changing admin password on multiple switches . . . . . . . . . .188

Enabling secure communication over HTTPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Managing the truststore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

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