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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide

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About This Document

In this chapter

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

How this document is organized

The document is divided into two sections; the first, “Standard Features,” contains the following
topics:

Chapter 1, “Understanding Fibre Channel Services,”

provides information on the Fibre Channel

services on Brocade switches.

Chapter 2, “Performing Basic Configuration Tasks,”

gives a brief overview of Fabric OS,

explains the Fabric OS CLI Help feature, and provides typical connection and configuration
procedures.

Chapter 3, “Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks,”

provides advanced connection and

configuration procedures.

Chapter 4, “Routing Traffic,”

provides information and procedures for using switch routing

features.

Chapter 5, “Managing User Accounts,”

provides information and procedures on managing

authentication and user accounts for the switch management channel.

Chapter 6, “Configuring Protocols,”

provides procedures for basic password and user account

management.

Chapter 7, “Configuring Security Policies,”

provides information and procedures for configuring

ACL policies for FC port and switch binding and managing the fabric-wide consistency policy.

Chapter 8, “Maintaining the Switch Configuration File,”

provides procedures for maintaining

and backing up your switch configurations.

Chapter 9, “Installing and Maintaining Firmware,”

provides preparations and procedures for

performing firmware downloads.

Chapter 10, “Managing Virtual Fabrics,”

describes the concepts and provides procedures for

using Virtual Fabrics.