Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001194-01, April 2009)

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Chapter
3
Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter
•Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
•Configuring IP and netmask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
•Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Setting up IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
•Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
•Switch rebooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
•System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
•Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
•High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
•Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
•Displaying the Name Server entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
•Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Fabric and switch management overview
You can perform most of the management tasks described in this chapter through the Switch
Administration window. Information in the Switch Administration window is retrieved from the
selected switch.
If the switch is not a member of the selected Admin Domain, most tabs in the Switch
Administration window display in read-only mode, regardless of your permission level. The User tab
is editable because most of its information does not require switch membership in the current
Admin Domain.