Converged Enhanced Ethernet
Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated
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Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide
Contents
Chapter Using the CEE CLI
This chapter
Chapter Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration
Chapter Configuring STP, RSTP, and Mstp
Chapter Configuring Link Aggregation
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Appendix a
Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin scheduler
Strict priority schedule two queues
WRR schedule two queues
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Tables
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Configuring VLANs, describes how to configure VLANs
About This Document
This chapter
How this document is organized
Supported hardware and software
What’s new in this document
Command syntax conventions
Document conventions
Text formatting
Additional information
Key terms
Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products
Getting technical help
Brocade resources
Other industry resources
Document feedback
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Introducing FCoE
FCoE terminology
FCoE overview
Term Description
FCoE hardware
Layer 2 Ethernet overview
Layer 2 forwarding
Layer 2 Ethernet overview
Vlan tagging
Loop-free network environment
Frame classification incoming
Congestion control and queuing
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Access control
Trunking
FCoE Initialization Protocol
Flow Control
FIP discovery
FIP login
FIP logout
FCoE login
Logincfg
FCoE logout
FCoE Initialization Protocol
Name server
FC zoning
Registered State Change Notification Rscn
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FCoE
FCoE queuing
Using the CEE CLI
CEE Command Line Interface
Management Tools
Saving your configuration changes
Accessing the CEE CLI through the console or Telnet
Saving configuration changes with the copy command
Saving configuration changes with the write memory command
Accessing the CEE CLI from the Fabric OS shell
CEE CLI command modes
To return to the Fabric OS CLI, enter the following command
Interface port-channel
CEE Command Line Interface CEE CLI command modes
CEE CLI keyboard shortcuts
Lists CEE CLI keyboard shortcuts
Keystroke Description
Using the do command as a shortcut
Displaying CEE CLI commands and command syntax
CEE CLI command completion
CEE CLI command output modifiers
CEE Command Line Interface CEE CLI command output modifiers
Tee
Configuration management
Configuration management tasks
CEE configuration guidelines and restrictions
Display the running configuration file
Saving the running configuration file
Loading the startup configuration file
Erasing the startup configuration file
Flash file management commands
Debugging and logging commands
Archiving the startup configuration file
Restore an archived startup configuration file
Switch#show debug
FCoE Configuration Management
Managing the FCoE configuration
FCoE configuration guidelines and restrictions
This chapter
Configuring the FCoE login information
Clearing logins
Displaying FCoE configuration-related information
Enabling or disabling login configuration management
Managing the current configuration transaction
Cleaning up login groups and VNport mappings
Displaying the FCoE login configuration
Creating an FCoE login group
Saving the current FCoE configuration
Creating an FCoE login group
Modifying the FCoE login group device list
Deleting an FCoE login group
Renaming an FCoE login group
Perform the following task to delete an FCoE login group
Creating an FCoE login group
Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration
End to End FCoE using FC ISLs
Overview
FCoE Logical Port Numbering
FCoE port-to-front end TenGigabit port mapping
High availability
Hot plug
Control Processor failover
Protocol type Time interval
High availability reference
Operation, data, or state Expected behavior
Configuring the FCoE interfaces
Configuring the FCoE Vlan
Assigning an FCoE map onto an interface
Show vlan fcoe
Configuring Dcbx
Return to the privileged Exec mode using the end command
Repeat this procedure for any additional interfaces
Activate the protocol
Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
Configuring Vlan membership
Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
CEE map configuration
Bandwidth%
Activate the CEE map mode
Defining a Priority Group Table map
Define the CEE map for Pgid
CoSPGID
Defining a Priority-Table map
Applying a CEE provisioning map to an interface
Verifying the CEE maps
Activate privileged Exec mode
CEE audit logs
Name Example Description
Page
CEE audit logs
Configuring VLANs
Vlan overview
Ingress Vlan filtering
Displays the frame processing logic for an incoming frame
Vlan configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default Vlan configuration
Parameter Default setting
Vlan configuration and management
Configuring the MTU on an interface port
Enabling and disabling an interface port
Creating a Vlan interface
Configuring a Vlan interface to forward FCoE traffic
Enabling STP on a Vlan
Disabling STP on a Vlan
Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port
Configuring an interface port as an access interface
Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface
Configuring an interface port as a converged interface
Disabling a Vlan on a trunk interface
Configuring protocol-based Vlan classifier rules
Configuring protocol-based Vlan classifier rules
Disabling a Vlan on a converged interface
Configuring a Vlan classifier rule
Configuring MAC address-based Vlan classifier rules
Deleting a Vlan classifier rule
Creating a Vlan classifier group and adding rules
Configuring the MAC address table
Activating a Vlan classifier group with an interface port
Clearing Vlan counter statistics
Displaying Vlan information
Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses
Adding static addresses to the MAC address table
Configuring the MAC address table
Configuring STP, RSTP, and Mstp
STP overview
Configuring STP
Rstp overview
STP interface state Rstp interface state
Active topology?
Is the interface learning MAC addresses?
Configuring Rstp
Mstp overview
Mstp overview
Configuring Mstp
Default STP, RSTP, and Mstp configuration
STP, RSTP, and Mstp configuration and management
Enabling STP, RSTP, or Mstp
STP, RSTP, and Mstp configuration and management
Disabling STP, RSTP, or Mstp
Shutting down STP, RSTP, or Mstp globally
Specifying the bridge priority
Specifying the bridge forward delay
Specify the bridge forward delay
Specifying the bridge maximum aging time
Enabling the error disable timeout timer
Specifying the error disable timeout interval
Enable the error disable timeout timer
Specifying the port-channel path cost
Specifying the bridge hello time STP and Rstp
Specifying the transmit hold count Rstp and Mstp
Specify the port-channel path cost
Enabling Cisco interoperability Mstp
Disabling Cisco interoperability Mstp
Mapping a Vlan to an Mstp instance
Specifying a revision number for an Mstp configuration
Enter the region command to assign a name to an Mstp region
Specifying the maximum number of hops for a Bpdu Mstp
Specifying a name for an Mstp region
Flushing MAC addresses Rstp and Mstp
Clearing spanning tree counters
Clearing spanning tree-detected protocols
Configuring STP, RSTP, or Mstp on CEE interface ports
Configuring the path cost
Displaying STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related information
Enabling automatic edge detection
Enabling a port interface as an edge port
Enabling the guard root
Enter the no shutdown command to enable the CEE interface
Specifying the Mstp hello time
Specifying restrictions for an Mstp instance
Specifying a link type
Enabling port fast STP
Specifying the port priority
Restricting the port from becoming a root port
Restricting the topology change notification
Enabling spanning tree
Disabling spanning tree
Configuring STP, RSTP, or Mstp on CEE interface ports
Configuring Link Aggregation
Link Aggregation Group configuration
Link aggregation overview
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Dynamic link aggregation
Static link aggregation
Brocade-proprietary aggregation
Lacp configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default Lacp configuration
Lacp configuration and management
LAG distribution process
Enabling Lacp on an interface in Layer 2 mode
Configuring the Lacp system priority
Configuring the Lacp timeout period on a CEE interface
Enter the switchport mode command to set the mode
Lacp troubleshooting tips
Clearing Lacp counter statistics on a LAG
Clearing Lacp counter statistics on all LAG groups
Displaying Lacp information
Deskew calculation failed for link link-name
Configuring Lldp
Lldp overview
Layer 2 topology mapping
Layer 2 topology mapping
Dcbx overview
Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS
Priority Flow Control PFC
Priority Priority group Bandwidth check
Lldp configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default Lldp configuration
Dcbx interaction with other vendor devices
Lldp configuration and management
Disabling and resetting Lldp globally
Configuring Lldp global command options
Enabling Lldp globally
Specifying a system name for the Brocade FCoE hardware
Specifying a user description for Lldp
Configuring the transmit frequency of Lldp frames
Configuring the hold time for receiving devices
Advertising the optional Lldp TLVs
Configuring the advertisement of Lldp DCBX-related TLVs
Configuring FCoE priority bits
Advertise the Lldp DCBX-related TLVs using these commands
Configure the FCoE priority bits
Configuring iSCSI priority bits
Configuring Lldp profiles
Configuring the iSCSI profile
Configuring Lldp interface-level command options
Clearing LLDP-related information
Displaying LLDP-related information
Display Lldp neighbor-related detail information
Display Lldp interface-related information
Display all Lldp statistics
Lldp configuration and management
Configuring ACLs
ACL overview
Default ACL configuration
ACL configuration guidelines and restrictions
ACL configuration and management
Creating a standard MAC ACL and adding rules
Creating an extended MAC ACL and adding rules
Modifying MAC ACL rules
Enter the no seq command to delete the existing rule
Removing a MAC ACL
Reordering the sequence numbers in a MAC ACL
ACL configuration and management
Applying a MAC ACL to a CEE interface
Applying a MAC ACL to a Vlan interface
ACL configuration and management
Configuring QoS
QoS overview
Default user-priority mappings for untrusted interfaces
Rewriting
Queueing
User-priority mapping
Configuring the QoS trust mode
Incoming CoS User Priority
Configuring user-priority mappings
Creating a CoS-to-CoS mutation QoS map
Applying a CoS-to-CoS mutation QoS map
Traffic class mapping
Unicast traffic
User priority Traffic class
Multicast traffic
Mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
Activating a mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
Queueing
Congestion control
Tail drop
Verifying a mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
Ethernet pause
Changing the Tail Drop threshold
Ethernet Priority Flow Control
Enabling Ethernet Pause
Enable trust mode on the interface
Enable an Ethernet PFC on the interface
Multicast rate limiting
Enabling an Ethernet PFC
Deficit weighted round robin scheduling
Scheduling
Strict priority scheduling
Traffic class scheduling policy
Scheduling the QoS queue
Multicast queue scheduling
Scheduling the QoS multicast queue
Multicast traffic class Equivalent unicast traffic class
Pgid
Defining a priority group table
Defining a priority-table map
Specify the name of the CEE map to define
Applying a CEE provisioning map to an interface
Verifying the CEE maps
Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication
802.1x configuration guidelines and restrictions
802.1x protocol overview
802.1x authentication configuration tasks
Interface-specific administrative tasks for
Configure authentication Between the switch and CNA or NIC
Configuring 802.1x on specific interface ports
Configuring 802.1x timeouts on specific interface ports
Configure the timeout interval
Enable 802.1x authentication for the interface port
Configure reauthentication for the interface port
Interface-specific administrative tasks for
Configuring Igmp
About Igmp
Active Igmp snooping
Configuring Igmp
Multicast routing
Configuring Igmp snooping querier
Configuring Igmp snooping mrouter
Configure the mrouter timeout value
Monitoring Igmp
Configuring Rmon
Rmon configuration and management
Default Rmon configuration
Configuring Rmon group statistics collection
Configuring Rmon settings
Configuring Rmon events
Enable the CEE interface
Configure Rmon group statistics on the interface
Configuring Rmon history collection
Rmon configuration and management Configure the Rmon event
Activate Rmon history collection for the interface
Display the Rmon history
Rmon configuration and management
Brocade 8000 Replacement
Switch
Brocade 8000 Replacement
Enhanced Group Management license
Originalswitchadmin cfgactvshow
Bring the new switch back online
Upload the startup-configfile to the new switch
Upload the running-configfile to the new switch
Originalswitchadmin switchname originalswitch
Brocade 8000 Replacement
Index
802.1x
QoS, 113 queuing
FIP
Layer
Lldp
Radius
Vlan