Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 333

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Secure communication settings (HTTP or HTTPS)

• Fabric Manager client machine is capable of supporting HTTPS.

• All switches have a valid SSL certificate.

If a fabric contains some switches running Fabric OS versions that do not support HTTPS, then

southbound operations to those switches will fail.

NOTE

If HTTP is turned off, all client-initiated HTTP operations stop working. These operations include

FICON/CUP features (including PDCM matrix) and switch and port control operations (such as

enable, disable, and reboot).

FIGURE 224 Server Management Console, Security tab

In the Security tab, the current running configuration is displayed; however, because this tab does

not automatically refresh, the running configuration that is displayed might be out-of-date. Click

Reset to update the running configuration.

Clicking Reset also restores the values in the dialog box to the values specified by the last Apply

command or, if you have not activated Apply, to the values in effect when the dialog box was

opened.

The current configuration is shown on the lower portion of the Security tab.

Changing the connection settings

1. Click the Security tab.

2. Select the connection method by clicking the appropriate button:

• Connect using HTTP (default)

• Connect using HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) only