Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002152-01, March 2012)

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Working with Web Tools: recommendations

Brocades makes the following recommendations for working with Web Tools:

• If you receive an error when saving changes in the Switch Administration window, note the

error messages, refresh the window, and make your changes again. Do not continue making

changes without refreshing the window and determining which changes were saved correctly.

• In a fabric containing switches and directors running different versions of firmware, use the

switches or directors with the latest firmware versions to control the fabric.

• If switches are accessed simultaneously from different connections (for example, Web Tools,

CLI, and API), changes from one connection might not be updated to the other, and some

modifications might be lost. Make sure that, when you connect with simultaneous multiple

connections, you do not overwrite the work of another connection.

• Several tasks in Web Tools make fabric-level changes, such as the tasks in Zone

Administration. When executing fabric-level configuration tasks, wait until you have received

confirmation that the changes are implemented before executing any subsequent tasks. For a

large fabric, this can take several minutes.

• Some data collection and processing operations in the iSCSI Gateway module might take a

long time to complete, especially in large fabrics or fabrics with large numbers of defined

Discovery Domains and Discovery Domain Sets. In most cases, progress bars are provided.

Allow the application a sufficient amount of time (30-40 seconds) to collect and display data

before taking any action or assuming the application is “hanging.”

• A maximum of five simultaneous HTTP sessions to any one switch is recommended. An HTTP

session is considered a Fabric Manager or Web Tools connection to the switch.

Opening a Telnet or SSH client window

When you open a Telnet or SSH client window, it connects to the IP interface of the switch. You

cannot connect to a CP blade on a director switch through a Telnet or SSH client window opened

from Web Tools, even when the blade has an IP address and supports Telnet sessions. Refer to the

Fabric OS Command Reference for information about the Telnet commands.

NOTE

Internet Explorer 7.0 default settings disable Telnet functionality. If you are using Internet Explorer

7.0, you must make the appropriate changes in the registry to open the Telnet window.

To open a Telnet or SSH client window, perform the following steps.

1. Select a switch in Fabric Tree.

You are prompted to log in if the OS is version 5.3.0 or later; otherwise, the selected switch

displays in Switch View.

2. Select Telnet/SSH Client in the Other section of the Tasks panel. The Preference dialog box

displays.

3. Select the client by clicking Telnet or SSH.

4. Enter the Telnet or SSH path, as defined for your implementation.