Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual This chapter, Management port overview, Feature

Management Applications 1

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.

TABLE121 Supported management application features

Feature		Brocade ICX
		6650
Management port		Yes
industry-standard Command Line		Yes
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

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.

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