Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

Web tools, Administrator’s guide

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30 March 2010

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Web Tools

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.0

Table of contents

Document Outline

Contents
Figures
Tables
About This Document
- In this chapter
- How this document is organized
- Supported hardware and software
- What’s new in this document
- Document conventions
- Notice to the reader
- Additional information
  - Brocade resources
  - Other industry resources
- Getting technical help
- Document feedback
Introducing Web Tools
- In this chapter
- Web Tools overview
- Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM
  - Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license
  - Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM
- System requirements
  - Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer
  - Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications
- Java installation on the workstation
- Java plug-in configuration
  - Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows
  - Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers
- Value line licenses
- Opening Web Tools
  - Logging in
  - Logging out
- Role-Based Access Control
- Session management
  - Ending a Web Tools session
- Web Tools system logs
- Requirements for IPv6 support
Using the Web Tools Interface
- In this chapter
- Viewing Switch Explorer
- Displaying tool tips
- Right-click options
- Refresh rates
- Displaying switches in the fabric
- Working with Web Tools: recommendations
- Opening a Telnet or SSH client window
- Collecting logs for troubleshooting
Managing Fabrics and Switches
- In this chapter
- Fabric and switch management overview
  - Opening the Switch Administration window
- Configuring IP and subnet mask information
- Configuring Auto Refresh
- Configuring a syslog IP address
- Removing a syslog IP address
- Configuring IP Filtering
- Blade management
- Switch configuration
- Switch restart
  - Performing a fast boot
  - Performing a reboot
- System configuration parameters
- Licensed feature management
- High Availability overview
- Event monitoring
- Displaying the Name Server entries
- Physically locating a switch using beaconing
- Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing
- Virtual Fabrics overview
  - Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View
  - Viewing logical ports
Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
- In this chapter
- Creating a configuration backup file
- Restoring a configuration
- Admin Domain configuration maintenance
- Uploading and downloading from USB storage
- Performing a firmware download
  - SAS and SA firmware download
- Switch configurations for mixed fabrics
  - Enabling interoperability
Managing Administrative Domains
- In this chapter
- Administrative Domain overview
- Enabling Admin Domains
- Admin Domain window
- Creating and populating domains
- Modifying Admin Domain members
Managing Ports
- In this chapter
- Port management overview
- Configuring FC ports
- Assigning a name to a port
- Port beaconing
- Enabling and disabling a port
  - Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?
- Persistent enabling and disabling ports
- Enabling and disabling NPIV ports
- Port activation
- Port swapping index
  - Port swapping
  - Determining if a port index was swapped with another switch port
- Configuring BB credits on an F_Port
Enabling ISL Trunking
- In this chapter
- ISL Trunking overview
- Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking
  - Admin Domain considerations
- Viewing trunk group information
- F_Port trunk groups
  - Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups
Monitoring Performance
- In this chapter
- Performance Monitor overview
- Opening the Performance Monitoring window
- Creating basic performance monitor graphs
- Customizing basic monitoring graphs
- Advanced performance monitoring graphs
- Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs
  - Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties
- Saving graphs to a canvas
- Adding graphs to an existing canvas
- Printing graphs
- Modifying graphs
Administering Zoning
- In this chapter
- Zoning overview
- Zoning configurations
  - Opening the Zone Administration window
  - Setting the default zoning mode
- Zoning management
- Zone configuration and zoning database management
- Best practices for zoning
Working with Diagnostic Features
- In this chapter
- Trace dumps
- Displaying switch information
- Defining Switch Policy
- Port LED interpretation
Using the FC-FC Routing Service
- In this chapter
- Fibre Channel Routing overview
- Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing
- Setting up FC-FC routing
- FC-FC routing management
  - Opening the FC Routing module
  - Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics
- Viewing EX_Ports
- Configuring an EX_Port
  - Editing the configuration of an EX_Port
- Configuring FCR router port cost
- Viewing LSAN zones
  - Viewing LSAN devices
- Configuring the backbone fabric ID
Using the Access Gateway
- In this chapter
- Access Gateway overview
- Viewing Switch Explorer for Access Gateway mode
- Access Gateway mode
  - Restricted access in the Port Administration window
- Enabling Access Gateway mode
- Disabling Access Gateway mode
- Viewing the Access Gateway settings
- Port configuration
- Access Gateway policy modification
- Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000
Administering Fabric Watch
- In this chapter
- Fabric Watch overview
- Using Fabric Watch with Web Tools
  - Opening the Fabric Watch window
- System Monitor
- Fabric Watch threshold configuration
- Configuring alarms for FRUs
- Fabric Watch alarm information
  - Viewing an alarm configuration report
  - Displaying alarms
- E-mail notification
  - Configuring the e-mail server on a switch
  - Configuring the e-mail alert
Administering Extended Fabrics
- In this chapter
- Extended link buffer allocation overview
- Configuring a port for long distance
Administering the iSCSI Target Gateway
- In this chapter
- iSCSI service overview
- Setting up iSCSI Target Gateway services
- Discovery Domain management
- Discovery domain sets
  - Creating a discovery domain set
  - Editing a discovery domain set
- CHAP configuration
- Connection redirection
  - Enabling or disabling connection redirection
- iSCSI Fibre Channel zone configuration
  - Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with no effective zone configuration
  - Creating an iSCSI Fibre Channel zone with an effective zone configuration
- Managing and troubleshooting accessibility
Routing Traffic
- In this chapter
- Routing overview
- Viewing fabric shortest path first routing
- Configuring dynamic load sharing
  - Lossless dynamic load sharing
- Specifying frame order delivery
- Configuring the link cost for a port
Configuring Standard Security Features
- In this chapter
- User-defined accounts
- Access control list policy configuration
- Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy configuration
- Authentication policy configuration
- SNMP configuration
- RADIUS management
- Active Directory service management
- IPsec concepts
- IPsec over FCIP
- IPsec over management ports
- Establishing authentication policies for HBAs
Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
- In this chapter
- FICON CUP fabrics overview
- Enabling port-based routing
- Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode
- FMS parameter configuration
  - Configuring FMS mode parameters
- Displaying code page information
- Viewing the control device state
- CUP port connectivity configuration
- CUP logical path configuration
  - Viewing CUP logical path configurations
  - Configuring CUP logical paths
- Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration
  - Viewing Link Incident Registered Recipient configurations
  - Configuring LIRRs
- Displaying Request Node Identification Data
Configuring FCoE with Web Tools
- In this chapter
- Web Tools and FCoE overview
- Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM
  - Port information that is unique to FCoE
- Switch administration and FC0E
- FC0E configuration tasks
- Quality of Service configuration
  - Adding a CEE map
  - Adding a traffic class map
- LLDP-DCBX configuration
  - Configuring global LLDP characteristics
  - Adding an LLDP profile
- Configuring CEE interfaces
- Configuring a link aggregation group
- Configuring VLANs
- Configuring FCoE login groups
- Displaying FCoE port information
- Displaying LAG information
- Displaying VLAN information
- Displaying FCoE login groups
- Displaying QoS information
- Displaying LLDP-DCBX information
- Displaying CEE interface statistics
- Configuring a CEE interface from the Switch View
- Configuring a CEE interface from the Port Admin panel
- Enabling and disabling a LAG
- Enabling and disabling LLDP
- Enabling and disabling QoS priority-based flow control
- Enabling and disabling FCoE ports
Limitations
- In this chapter
- General Web Tools limitations
Index