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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 55
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Chapter
2
Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
In this chapter
•Fabric OS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
•Fabric OS command line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
•Password modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
•The switch Ethernet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
•Date and time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
•Domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
•Switch names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
•Chassis names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
•Fabric name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
•Switch activation and deactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
•Switch and Backbone shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
•Basic connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Fabric OS overview
This chapter describes how to configure your Brocade
SAN using the Fabric OS command line
interface (CLI). Before you can configure a storage area network (SAN), you must power up the
Backbone platform or switch and blades, and then set the IP addresses of those devices. Although
this chapter focuses on configuring a SAN using the CLI, you can also use the following methods to
configure a SAN:
• Web Tools
For Web Tools procedures, refer to Web Tools Administrator’s Guide.
• Brocade Network Advisor
For additional information, refer to the Brocade Network Advisor User Manual for the version
you have.
• A third-party application using the API
For third-party application procedures, refer to the third-party API documentation.
Because of the differences between fixed-port and variable-port devices, procedures sometimes
differ among Brocade models. As new Brocade models are introduced, new features sometimes
apply only to those models.
When procedures or parts of procedures apply to some models but not others, this guide identifies
the specifics for each model. For example, a number of procedures that apply only to variable-port
devices are found in Chapter 3, “Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks”.