Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 38)

additional information about the commands used in the procedures, refer to the Fabric OS Command
Reference.
Fabric OS command line interface
Fabric OS uses Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to control access to all Fabric OS operations.
Each feature is associated with an RBAC role and you need to know which role is allowed to run a
command, make modifications to the switch, or view the output of the command. To determine which
RBAC role you need to run a command, review the section
Role-Based Access Control on page 134.
Note the following about the command display in this guide:
• Commands are shown and can be entered either in all lower case or using Java-style capitalization.
This means that while bannershow and bannerShow will both work, BANNERSHOW and
BannerShow will not.
• When command examples in this guide show user input enclosed in quotation marks, the quotation
marks are required. Example: zonecreate "zonename" requires that the value for zonename be in
quotation marks.
Console sessions using the serial port
Be aware of the following behaviors for serial connections:
• Some procedures require that you connect through the serial port; for example, setting the IP
address or setting the boot PROM password.
• Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families: You can connect to CP0 or CP1 using either of
the two serial ports.
Connecting to Fabric OS through the serial port
Use the following procedure to connect to the Fabric OS using the serial port:
1. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the switch and to an RS-232 serial port on the
workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is an RJ-45 port, instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the
end of the serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the
workstation.
2. Open a terminal emulator application (such as HyperTerminal on a PC, TERM, TIP, or Kermit in a
UNIX environment), and configure the application as follows:
• In a Windows environment enter the following parameters:
Terminal port parameters TABLE 4
Parameter Value
Bits per second 9600
Databits 8
Parity None
Stop bits 1
Fabric OS command line interface
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