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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 461

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Section

Licensed Features

This section describes optionally licensed Brocade Fabric OS features and includes the following

chapters:

• Chapter 18, “Administering Licensing”

• Chapter 19, “Inter-chassis Links”

• Chapter 20, “Monitoring Fabric Performance”

• Chapter 21, “Optimizing Fabric Behavior”

• Chapter 22, “Managing Trunking Connections”

• Chapter 23, “Managing Long-Distance Fabrics”

• Chapter 24, “Using FC-FC Routing to Connect Fabrics”

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Default Chapter3
- Table of Contents3
- About this Document33
- How this Document Is Organized33
- Supported Hardware and Software34
- What's New in this Document35
- Document Conventions36
- Notice to the Reader37
- Additional Information38
- Getting Technical Help38
- Document Feedback40
Standard Features41
- Fibre Channel Services Overview43
- Figure 1 Well-Known Addresses43
- Understanding Fibre Channel Services43
- Management Server44
- Platform Services44
- Disabling Platform Services45
- Enabling Platform Services45
- Management Server Database45
- Platform Services and Virtual Fabrics45
- Adding a Member to the ACL46
- Displaying the Management Server ACL46
- Deleting a Member from the ACL47
- Viewing the Contents of the Management Server Database48
- Clearing the Management Server Database49
- Displaying Topology Discovery Status49
- Enabling Topology Discovery49
- Topology Discovery49
- Disabling Topology Discovery50
- Device Login51
- E_Port Login Process51
- Principal Switch51
- Fabric Login Process52
- Port Login Process52
- Rscns52
- Duplicate Port World Wide Name53
- High Availability of Daemon Processes53
- Table 1 Daemons that Are Automatically Restarted53
Chapter 1 Understanding Fibre Channel Services55
Chapter 2 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks55
- Fabric os Overview55
- Telnet or SSH Sessions57
- Getting Help on a Command58
- Viewing a History of Command Line Entries59
Chapter 3 Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks79
- Port Identifiers (Pids) and PID Binding Overview79
- Core Blades95
- CP Blades95
- Enabling and Disabling Blades96
- FX8-24 Compatibility Notes96
- Port and Application Blade Compatibility96
Chapter 4 Routing Traffic177
Chapter 5 Managing User Accounts177
Chapter 6 Configuring Protocols177
- Security Protocols177
- Secure Shell Protocol179
- Setting up SCP for Configuration Uploads and Downloads179
- SSH Public Key Authentication180
- Browser and Java Support182
- Secure Sockets Layer Protocol182
- SSL Configuration Overview183
- Table 26 Access Defaults193
- Table 27 Port Information193
Chapter 7 Configuring Security Policies195
- ACL Policies Overview195
- Aborting an IP Filter Transaction223
- Adding a Rule to an IP Filter Policy223
- Deleting a Rule from an IP Filter Policy223
- IP Filter Policy Enforcement223
- IP Filter Policy Distribution224
- Managing Filter Thresholds224
- Policy Database Distribution224
- Database Distribution Settings225
- Table 48 Brocade Configuration and Connection Form253
Chapter 8 Maintaining the Switch Configuration File255
Chapter 9 Installing and Maintaining Firmware255
- Firmware Download Process Overview255
- Considerations for FICON CUP Environments257
- HA Sync State257
- Upgrading and Downgrading Firmware257
- Preparing for a Firmware Download258
- Table 49 Backbone HA Sync States258
- Connected Switches259
- Finding the Switch Firmware Version259
- Obtaining and Decompressing Firmware259
- Firmware Download on Switches260
- Switch Firmware Download Process Overview260
- Backbone Firmware Download Process Overview262
- Firmware Download on a Backbone262
- Enabling the USB Device265
- Firmware Download from a USB Device265
- Viewing the USB File System265
- Downloading from the USB Device Using the Absolute Path266
- Downloading from the USB Device Using the Relative Path266
- FIPS Support266
- Public and Private Key Management266
- The Firmwaredownload Command267
- Power-On Firmware Checksum Test268
- Testing a Different Firmware Version on a Switch268
- Testing and Restoring Firmware on Switches268
- Testing and Restoring Firmware on Backbones270
- Testing Different Firmware Versions on Backbones270
- Validating a Firmware Download273
Chapter 10 Managing Virtual Fabrics275
- Virtual Fabrics Overview275
- Account Management and Virtual Fabrics286
- Supported Platforms for Virtual Fabrics286
- Supported Port Configurations in the Fixed-Port Switches286
- Supported Port Configurations in Brocade Backbones287
- Figure 28 Example of Logical Fabrics in Multiple Chassis and Xisls300
Chapter 11 Administering Advanced Zoning303
- Zone Types303
- Concurrent Zone Transactions342
Chapter 12 Traffic Isolation Zoning425
Chapter 13 Bottleneck Detection425
Chapter 14 In-Flight Encryption and Compression425
Chapter 15 NPIV425
Chapter 16 Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric-Assigned PWWN425
- Introduction to Dynamic Fabric Provisioning Using FA-PWWN425
Licensed Features461
- Admin Domain Access Levels435
- Admin Domain Features435
- Requirements for Admin Domains435
- System-Defined Admin Domains436
- User-Defined Admin Domains436
Chapter 17 Managing Administrative Domains463
Chapter 18 Administering Licensing463
- Licensing Overview463
- Brocade 7800 Upgrade License470
- ICL 1St POD License471
- ICL 2Nd POD License471
- ICL Licensing471
Chapter 19 Inter-Chassis Links491
- Icls for the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone Family492
- Setting a Mask for an EE Monitor503
- Deleting EE Monitors504
- Displaying EE Monitor Counters504
Appendix A Port Indexing615
- FIPS Support615
Appendix B FIPS Support615
- FIPS Overview615
- Zeroization Functions615
- Table 86 Zeroization Behavior616
- Conditional Tests617
- FIPS Mode Configuration617
- Power-On Self Tests617
- Table 87 FIPS Mode Restrictions617
- Table 88 Table617
- LDAP in FIPS Mode618
- LDAP Certificates for FIPS Mode620
- Preparing a Switch for FIPS621
- Enabling FIPS Mode622
- Overview of Steps622
- Zeroizing for FIPS624
- Displaying FIPS Configuration625
- Hexadecimal Conversion627
Appendix C Hexadecimal Conversion627
- Example Conversion of the Hexadecimal Triplet Ox616000627
- Decimal-To-Hexadecimal Conversion Table628
- Table 90 Decimal-To-Hexadecimal Conversion Table628

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