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HP StorageWorks 2.16N FF and 2.16N SAN Switch User Manual, 248 pages

Recognized languages:	English
Pages:	248
Size:	2.85 MB

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Contents
- Intended audience
- Related documentation
- HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x master glossary
- Document conventions and symbols
  - Table 1 Document conventions
- HP technical support
  - HP-authorized reseller
  - Helpful web sites
Introducing Fabric OS CLI procedures
- About procedural differences
- Scope and references
- About the CLI
- Help information
  - Displaying command help
  - Additional help topics
Performing basic configuration tasks
- Connecting to the Command Line Interface
- Setting the IP address
- Setting the default account passwords
  - Table 2 Maximum number of simultaneous sessions
- Setting the date and time
  - Table 3 Conversion from UTC to local time
- Maintaining licensed features
- Customizing the switch name
- Customizing the chassis name
- Disabling and enabling a switch
- Disabling and enabling a port
- Activating Ports on Demand
- Making basic connections
  - Connecting to devices
  - Connecting to other switches
- Working with domain IDs
- Linking through a gateway
- Checking status
- Tracking and controlling switch changes
Configuring standard security features
- Secure protocols
- Ensuring network security
- Configuring the telnet interface
- Blocking listeners
  - Table 7 Blocked listener applications
- Accessing switches and fabrics
  - Table 8 Access defaults
- Creating and maintaining user-defined accounts
- Changing an account password
- Setting up RADIUS AAA service
- Configuring for the SSL protocol
- Configuring SNMP agent and traps
- Configuring secure file copy
- Setting the boot PROM password
  - Without a recovery string
- Recovering forgotten passwords
Maintaining configurations and firmware
- Maintaining configurations
- Maintaining firmware
- Troubleshooting firmware downloads
Configuring Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director
- Identifying ports
  - By slot and port number
  - By port area ID
- Basic blade management
- Setting chassis configurations
- Setting the blade beacon mode
Routing traffic
- About data routing and routing policies
- Specifying the routing policy
- Assigning a static route
- Specifying frame order delivery
- Using DLS
- Viewing routing path information
- Viewing routing information along a path
Administering FICON fabrics
- FICON overview
  - Table 18 Fabric OS commands related to FICON and FICON CUP
- Configuring switches
- Preparing a switch
  - Configuring a single switch
  - Configuring a high-integrity fabric
    - Figure 1 Cascaded configuration with two switches
    - Figure 2 Cascaded configuration with three switches
- Setting a unique domain ID
- Displaying information
- Swapping ports
- Clearing the FICON management database
- Using FICON CUP
- Troubleshooting
  - Identifying ports
- Backing up FICON files
- Recording configuration information
  - Figure 3 FICON switch configuration worksheet
Configuring the Distributed Management Server
- Enabling and disabling the platform services
- Controlling access
- Configuring the server database
- Controlling topology discovery
Working with diagnostic features
- Viewing POST
- Viewing switch status
- Viewing port information
  - Table 20 Port error summary description
- Viewing equipment status
- Viewing the system message log
- Viewing the port log
  - Table 21 Commands for port log management
- Configuring for syslogd
  - Configuring the host
    - Table 22 Fabric OS and UNIX message severities
  - Configuring the switch
- Viewing and saving diagnostic information
- Setting up automatic trace dump transfers
Troubleshooting
- Most common problem areas
  - Table 23 Common troubleshooting problems and tools
- Gathering information for technical support
  - Troubleshooting questions
- Analyzing connection problems
- Restoring a segmented fabric
- Correcting zoning setup issues
  - Table 24 Types of zone discrepancies
  - Table 25 Commands for debugging zoning
- Recognizing MQ errors
- Correcting I2C bus errors
- Correcting device login issues
- Identifying media-related issues
  - Table 26 Component test descriptions
  - Table 27 Switch component tests
- Correcting link failures
  - Table 28 Switchshow output and suggested action
- Correcting marginal links
  - Table 29 Loopback modes
- Inaccurate information in the system message log
- Port initialization and FCP auto-discovery process
Administering extended fabrics
- About extended link buffer allocation
  - SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, and SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director 2/128, and 4/256 SAN Director (FC2-16 port blades)
  - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, SAN Switch 4/32, and 4/256 SAN Director (FC4-16 and FC4-32 port blades)
- Fabric considerations
- Choosing an extended ISL mode
- Configuring an extended ISL
- Trunking over distance
Administering ISL trunking
- About ISL trunking
  - Figure 4 Distribution of traffic over ISL trunking groups
- Standard trunking criteria
- Fabric considerations
- Initializing trunking on ports
- Monitoring traffic
- Enabling and disabling ISL trunking
- Setting port speeds
- Displaying trunking information
- Trunking over extended fabrics
- Troubleshooting trunking problems
  - Listing link characteristics
  - Recognizing buffer underallocation
Administering advanced zoning
- Zoning terminology
  - Figure 5 Zoning example
- Zoning concepts
- Creating and managing zone aliases
- Creating and maintaining zones
- Creating and modifying zoning configurations
  - Maintaining zone objects
- Managing zoning configurations in a fabric
- Using zoning to administer security
- Resolving zone conflicts
  - Table 41 Considerations for zoning architecture
Administering advanced performance monitoring
- Table 42 Advanced performance monitoring commands
- Displaying and clearing the CRC error count
- Monitoring EE performance
- Monitoring filter-based performance
  - Adding standard filter-based monitors
    - Table 43 Commands to add filter-based monitors
  - Adding custom filter-based monitors
    - Table 44 Predefined values at offset 0
- Monitoring ISL performance
- Monitoring trunks
- Displaying monitor counters
- Clearing monitor counters
- Saving and restoring monitor configurations
- Collecting performance data
Configuring the PID format
- About PIDs and PID binding
- Summary of PID formats
- Impact of changing the fabric PID format
- Selecting a PID format
  - Table 46 PID format recommendations for adding new switches
- Evaluating the fabric
- Planning the update procedure
- Changing to Core PID format
- Changing to Extended Edge PID format
  - Table 47 Earliest Fabric OS versions for Extended Edge PID format
- Converting port number to area ID
  - Figure 13 4/256 SAN Director with Extended Edge PID
- PID format changes
- Swapping port area IDs
Configuring interoperability mode
Using the HP Remote Switch feature
Understanding legacy password behavior
- Password management information
  - Table 48 Account and password characteristics matrix
- Password prompting behaviors
  - Table 49 Password prompting matrix
- Password migration during firmware changes
  - Table 50 Password migration behavior during firmware upgrade and downgrade
- Password recovery options
  - Table 51 Password recovery options
Zone merging scenarios
- Table 52 Zone merging scenarios
Upgrading firmware in single-CP mode
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