Determining installed software licenses, Saving your changes – Brocade VDX 8770-8 QuickStart Guide User Manual
Page 30

30 of 34
Brocade VDX 8770-8 QuickStart Guide
Publication Number: 53-1002555-01
1. If necessary, log in to the switch using the default password (the default password is password). Be sure you are
in privileged EXEC mode.
2. Enter the clock set year-month-dayT hours:minutes:seconds command.
The following example sets the clock to March 17, 2012, 15 minutes past noon.
switch# clock set 2012-03-17T12:15:00
If you want to show the clock and time zone settings, use the show clock [rbridge-id rbridge-id | all]
command.
switch# show clock
Determining installed software licenses
Certain licenses are factory installed on the Brocade VDX 8770-8. To determine which licenses are enabled, use the
show license command. The format of the command is show license [rbridgeId rbridgeID | all]. You can also use just
show license.
switch# show license rbridgeID 1
RbridgeId: 1
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
FCoE Base license
Feature name:FCOE_BASE
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Layer 3 license
Feature name:LAYER_3
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
VCS Fabric license
Feature name:VCS_FABRIC
Each license key is represented by a string of x characters in the example above. Keep a copy of each license key for
reference.
You can display the switch license ID, which is required for installing a new license. Use the command show license
id [rbridgeId rbridgeID | all]. You can also use just show license id.
switch# show license id
RbridgeId
LicenseId
========================================
1
10:00:00:05:1E:00:4C:80
Saving your changes
Complete the following steps to make your changes persistent. This ensures that if you must reboot the switch, the
preferences you have set will be in force when the switch comes back up.
1. If necessary, log on to the switch by Telnet, using the admin account.
2. In privileged EXEC mode, enter the copy running-config startup-config command.
switch# copy running-config startup-config
This operation will modify your startup configuration. Do you want to continue? [Y/N]: Y
3. When the confirmation question appears, answer Y for Yes.