Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 4)

Password modification.................................................................................. 45
Default account passwords...............................................................45
The switch Ethernet interface .......................................................................46
Brocade Backbones..........................................................................46
Brocade switches..............................................................................46
Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface.........................................46
Management Ethernet port bonding................................................. 47
Displaying the network interface settings..........................................48
Static Ethernet addresses.................................................................48
DHCP activation................................................................................50
IPv6 autoconfiguration...................................................................... 52
Date and time settings.................................................................................. 53
Setting the date and time.................................................................. 53
Time zone settings............................................................................53
Network time protocol....................................................................... 55
Domain IDs................................................................................................... 56
Domain ID issues..............................................................................56
Displaying the domain IDs................................................................ 56
Setting the domain ID........................................................................57
Switch names................................................................................................57
Customizing the switch name........................................................... 58
Chassis names..............................................................................................58
Customizing chassis names..............................................................58
Fabric name.................................................................................................. 58
Configuring the fabric name..............................................................59
High availability considerations for fabric names.............................. 59
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for fabric names............... 59
Switch activation and deactivation................................................................ 59
Disabling a switch............................................................................. 60
Enabling a switch.............................................................................. 60
Disabling a chassis........................................................................... 60
Enabling a chassis............................................................................ 61
Switch and Backbone shutdown................................................................... 61
Powering off a Brocade switch..........................................................61
Powering off a Brocade Backbone....................................................62
Basic connections......................................................................................... 62
Device connection.............................................................................62
Switch connection............................................................................. 62
Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks.............................................................................65
Port identifiers (PIDs) and PID binding overview.......................................... 65
Core PID addressing mode...............................................................65
Fixed addressing mode.....................................................................66
10-bit addressing (mode 0)............................................................... 66
256-area addressing (mode 1 and mode 2)......................................66
WWN-based PID assignment........................................................... 67
Ports..............................................................................................................69
Port Types.........................................................................................69
Backbone port blades....................................................................... 70
Setting port names............................................................................71
Port identification by slot and port number........................................71
Port identification by port area ID......................................................71
Port identification by index................................................................ 71
Configuring a device-switch connection ...........................................72
Swapping port area IDs.....................................................................72
Enabling a port..................................................................................73
Disabling a port................................................................................. 74
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