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HP StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

HP StoreFabric SN6500B
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6 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
53-1002745-02
Chapter 2 Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
Fabric OS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Fabric OS command line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Console sessions using the serial port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Telnet or SSH sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Getting help on a command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Viewing a history of command line entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Password modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Default account passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The switch Ethernet interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Displaying the network interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Static Ethernet addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
DHCP activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
IPv6 autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Date and time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Time zone settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Network time protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Displaying the domain IDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Setting the domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Switch names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Customizing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chassis names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Customizing chassis names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Fabric name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Configuring the fabric name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
High availability considerations for fabric names . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for fabric names. . . . 76
Config file upload and download considerations for fabric
names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switch activation and deactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Enabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switch and Backbone shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Powering off a Brocade switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Powering off a Brocade Backbone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Device connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Switch connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

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