Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000599-02, June 2008)

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About This Document
This document is a command reference manual written to help system administrators and
technicians operate, maintain, and troubleshoot Brocade storage area network (SAN) products.
“About this document” contains the following sections:
• “How this document is organized,” next
• “Supported hardware and software” on page xvii
• “What is new in this document” on page xviii
• “Document conventions” on page xx
• “Additional information” on page xxii
• “Getting technical help” on page xxiv
• “Document feedback” on page xxv
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the particular information that you want as quickly and
easily as possible.
The document contains the following components:
• “About This Document” provides information about this document.
• Chapter 1, “Using Fabric OS Commands” explains how to use the command line interface to
manage a Brocade SAN and Brocade switches.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric OS Commands” provides command information.
• Chapter 3, “Primary FCS commands” summarizes the subset of commands available when
FCS policy is enabled.
• Chapter 4, “Control Processor Commands” lists the subset of active and standby control
processor (CP) commands on enterprise-class platforms (Brocade 48000 director and DCX
backbone).
• Appendix A, “Command availability,”explains the Role-Based Access Control and Admin
Domain restriction checks used to validate commands.
• The Index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.
Supported hardware and software
This document includes updated information specific to new functionality introduced in Fabric OS
6.1.0. The following hardware platforms are supported by this release:
• Brocade 200E switch