Getting help on a command – Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
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Switches in the fabric that are not connected through the Ethernet port can be managed through
switches that are using IP over Fibre Channel. The embedded port must have an assigned IP
address.
3. Log off the switch’s serial port.
4. From a management station, open a Telnet connection using the IP address of the switch to which
you want to connect.
The login prompt is displayed when the Telnet connection finds the switch in the network.
5. Enter the account ID at the login prompt.
6. Enter the password.
If you have not changed the system passwords from the default, you are prompted to change them.
Enter the new system passwords, or press Ctrl+C to skip the password prompts. For more
information on system passwords, refer to
on page 45.
7. Verify the login was successful.
The prompt displays the switch name and user ID to which you are connected.
login: admin
password: xxxxxxx
Getting help on a command
You can display a list of all command help topics for a given login level. For example, if you log in as
user and enter the help command, a list of all user-level commands that can be executed is displayed.
The same rule applies to the admin, securityAdmin, and the switchAdmin roles.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the help command with no specific command and all commands are displayed.
The optional |more argument displays the commands one page at a time.
For command-specific information, enter the help command and specify the command for which
you need specific information.
help
command
|more
The commands in the following table provide help files for the indicated specific topics.
Help topic contents
TABLE 5
Topic name
Help contents description
diagHelp
Diagnostic help information
ficonHelp
FICON help information
fwHelp
Fabric Watch help information
iscsiHelp
iSCSI help information
licenseHelp
License help information
perfHelp
Performance Monitoring help information
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