Brocade Communications Systems 8000, 6505, 6520 manual Managing Your Switch, Switch Manager overview

	Chapter
Managing Your Switch	3

In this chapter

•Switch Manager overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

•Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

•Viewing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

•Changing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

•Adding a port license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

•Managing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

•Zoning management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

•Accessing Web Tools for advanced management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Switch Manager overview

The EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager is a simplified version of Web Tools. It streamlines switch management by providing an easy-to-use subset of basic switch management tasks.

You can use the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager to do the following:

•Monitor the switch, including port and field-replacable unit (FRU) status

•Manage custom zoning

•Perform basic switch configurations

•Add Ports On Demand (POD)

The Switch Manager works for a single-switch fabric only. It displays only the switch and associated tasks, without fabric information.

Figure 20 on page 28 shows an example of the initial Switch Manager screen. The appearance may vary depending on the switch model. The following sections describe the components of the screen.

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