Brocade Communications Systems 6650 Management Applications

Brocade ICX 6650 Administration Guide 1
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Management Applications
In this chapter
•Management port overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
•Logging on through the CLI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
•Using slot number, and port number with CLI commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Table 1 lists the Brocade ICX 6650 switch and the management application features the switch
supports. These features are supported in full Layer 3 software images.
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Management port overview
The management port is an out-of-band port that customers can use to manage their devices
without interfering with the in-band ports. The management port is widely used to download
images and configurations and for Telnet sessions.
How the management port works
The following rules apply to management ports:
•Only packets that are specifically addressed to the management port MAC address or the
broadcast MAC address are processed by the Layer 2 Switch or Layer 3 Switch. All other
packets are filtered out.
•No packet received on a management port is sent to any in-band ports, and no packets
received on in-band ports are sent to a management port.
•A management port is not part of any VLAN
•Protocols are not supported on the management port.
TABLE 1 Supported management application features
Feature Brocade ICX
6650
Management port Yes
industry-standard Command Line
Interface (CLI), including support for:
•Serial and Telnet access
•Alias command
•On-line help
•Command completion
•Scroll control
•Line editing
•Searching and filtering output
•Special characters
Yes