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Brocade ICX 6650 Administration Guide 53-1002600-01 New document September 2012
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Contents
About This Document
Chapter 1 Management Applications
Chapter 2 Basic Software Features
Chapter 3 Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
Chapter 4 Ports on Demand Licensing
Chapter 5 IPv6 Configuration on Brocade ICX 6650 Switch
Chapter 6 SNMP Access
Chapter 7 Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets
Chapter 8 LLDP and LLDP-MED
Chapter 9 Hardware Component Monitoring
Chapter 10 Syslog
Chapter 11 Network Monitoring
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About This Document
Audience
Supported hardware and software
Brocade ICX 6650 slot and port numbering
Document conventions
Text formatting
Command syntax conventions
Notes, cautions, and warnings
ATTENTION
Notice to the reader
Related publications
Additional information
Brocade resources
Other industry resources
Getting technical help
Document feedback
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Management Applications
Management port overview
How the management port works
CLI Commands for use with the management port
Logging on through the CLI
Online help
Command completion
Scroll control
Line editing commands
Using slot number, and port number with CLI commands
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CLI nomenclature on Brocade ICX 6650 models
Searching and filtering output from CLI commands
Searching and filtering output from Show commands
Searching and filtering output at the --More-- prompt
Using special characters in regular expressions
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Using slot number, and port number with CLI commands 1
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Character Operation
Creating an alias for a CLI command
Configuration notes for creating a command alias
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Basic Software Features
TABLE 4
Feature Brocade ICX 6650 Basic System Parameters
Basic Port Parameters
Basic system parameter configuration
TABLE 4
Entering system administration information
SNMP parameter configuration
Specifying an SNMP trap receiver
Specifying a single trap source
Setting the SNMP trap holddown time
Disabling SNMP traps
Displaying virtual routing interface statistics
Disabling Syslog messages and traps for CLI access
Cancelling an outbound Telnet session
Specifying an SNTP server
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Specifying an SNTP server
To display detailed information about SNTP associations, enter the show sntp associations details
TABLE 6
Configuring the device as an SNTP server
TABLE 7
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Displaying SNTP server information
Enabling broadcast mode for an SNTP client
TABLE 8
Setting the system clock
New start and end dates for US daylight saving time
Limiting broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traffic
CLI banner configuration
Setting a message of the day banner
Requiring users to press the Enter key after the message of the day banner
Setting a privileged EXEC CLI level banner
Displaying a console message when an incoming Telnet session is detected
Local MAC address for Layer 2 management traffic
Basic port parameter configuration
Assigning a port name
Port speed and duplex mode modification
Port speed and duplex mode configuration syntax
Downgrading the Brocade ICX 6650 front panel ports from 10 GbE to 1 GbE port speed
Enabling auto-negotiation maximum port speed advertisement and down-shift
Maximum port speed application notes
Modifying port duplex mode
Port duplex mode configuration syntax
Disabling or re-enabling a port
Flow control configuration
Flow control configuration notes
Disabling or re-enabling flow control
Negotiation and advertisement of flow control
Displaying flow-control status
Symmetric flow control on Brocade ICX 6650 devices
About XON and XOFF thresholds
Configuration notes and feature limitations for symmetric flow control
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Interpacket Gap (IPG) on a Brocade ICX 6650
switch
IPG configuration notes
Changing the Gbps fiber negotiation mode
Port priority (QoS) modification
Port flap dampening configuration
Port flap dampening configuration notes
Configuring port flap dampening on an interface
Configuring port flap dampening on a trunk
Re-enabling a port disabled by port flap dampening
Displaying ports configured with port flap dampening
Basic port parameter configuration
Syslog messages for port flap dampening
The following Syslog messages are generated for port flap dampening.
down to up has been exceeded, the following Syslog message is displayed.
is displayed.
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Port loop detection
Types of loop detection
Recovering disabled ports
Port loopback detection configuration notes
Enabling loop detection
Configuring a global loop detection interval
Configuring the device to automatically re-enable ports
Specifying the recovery time interval
Clearing loop-detection
Displaying loop-detection information
Displaying loop detection resource information
TABLE 11
Basic port parameter configuration 2
Displaying loop detection configuration status on an interface
The Errdisable function logs a message whenever it re-enables a port.
Syslog message due to disabled port in loop detection
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Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
OAM Overview
Software versions installed and running on a device
Determining the flash image version running on the device
Brocade ICX 6650 devices
Displaying the boot image version running on the device
Displaying the image versions installed in flash memory
Flash image verification
Flash image CLI commands
Image file types
Software upgrades
Viewing the contents of flash files
TABLE 13
Using SNMP to upgrade software
Using SNMP to upgrade software
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Software reboot
Software boot configuration notes
Displaying the boot preference
Loading and saving configuration files
saved in flash. To display this file, enter the show configuration command at any CLI prompt.
Replacing the startup configuration with the running configuration
Replacing the running configuration with the startup configuration
Logging changes to the startup-config file
Copying a configuration file to or from a TFTP server
Dynamic configuration loading
Dynamic configuration usage considerations
Preparing the configuration file
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Loading the configuration information into the running-config
Maximum file sizes for startup-config file and running-config
Loading and saving configuration files with IPv6
Using the IPv6 copy command
Copying a file to an IPv6 TFTP server
Copying a file from flash memory
Copying a file from the running or startup configuration
Copying a file from an IPv6 TFTP server
Copying a file to flash memory
Copying a file to the running or startup configuration
IPv6 ncopy command
Copying a primary or secondary boot Image from flash memory to an IPv6 TFTP server
Copying the running or startup configuration to an IPv6 TFTP server
IPv6 TFTP server file upload
Uploading a primary or secondary boot image from an IPv6 TFTP server
Uploading a running or startup configuration from an IPv6 TFTP server
Using SNMP to save and load configuration information
Erasing image and configuration files
System reload scheduling
Reloading at a specific time
Reloading after a specific amount of time
Displaying the amount of time remaining before a scheduled reload
Canceling a scheduled reload
Diagnostic error codes and remedies for TFTP transfers
Network connectivity testing
Pinging an IPv4 address
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Tracing an IPv4 route
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Ports on Demand Licensing
Ports on Demand Overview
Ports on Demand terminology
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PoD licensing rules
PoD licensing configuration tasks
Obtaining a PoD license
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Viewing PoD licensing information from the Brocade software portal
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Transferring a PoD license
Syslog message information
Ports on Demand Licensing
Front panel PoD
Rear panel Flexible Ports on Demand
FIGURE 8
PoD licenses
Ports on Demand Licensing
Enabling ports on the front panel
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License SKU License Name Function
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Deleting a ICX6650-10G-LIC-POD license
Enabling ports on the rear panel
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Disabling the FPoD ports on the rear panel
Ports on Demand Licensing
Syntax: show pod
Deleting a 10 GbE or 40 GbE license
Viewing information about PoD licenses
Viewing the LID and the software packages installed in the device
Viewing information about PoD licenses
Displaying general license information for PoD ports
Syntax: show license
TABLE 18
Displaying the license configuration for PoD ports for the Brocade ICX 6650
TABLE 19
Viewing information about PoD licenses 4
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Configuration considerations when configuring PoD for Brocade ICX 6650 devices
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Viewing information about PoD licenses 4
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IPv6 Configuration on Brocade ICX 6650 Switch
IPv6 Configuration on Brocade ICX 6650 Switch
this guide:
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Feature Brocade ICX 6650
Full Layer 3 IPv6 feature support
IPv6 addressing overview
IPv6 address types
IPv6 addressing overview 5
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Address
Description Address structure
IPv6 CLI command support
TABLE 23
IPv6 CLI command support 5
TABLE 23
IPv6 command Description Switch code Router code
IPv6 host address on a Layer 2 switch
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Configuring a global or site-local IPv6 address with a manually configured interface ID
Configuring a link-local IPv6 address as a system-wide address for a switch
Configuring the management port for an IPv6 automatic address configuration
Configuring basic IPv6 connectivity on a Layer 3 switch
Enabling IPv6 routing
IPv6 configuration on each router interface
Configuring a global or site-local IPv6 address on an interface
Configuring a link-local IPv6 address on an interface
Configuring an IPv6 anycast address on an interface
Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks
IPv6 management on Brocade ICX 6650 devices (IPv6 host support)
Configuring IPv6 management ACLs
Restricting SNMP access to an IPv6 node
Specifying an IPv6 SNMP trap receiver
Configuring SNMP V3 over IPv6
Configuring SNTP over IPv6
Secure Shell, SCP, and IPv6
IPv6 Telnet
Establishing a Telnet session from an IPv6 host
IPv6 traceroute
Configuring name-to-IPv6 address resolution using IPv6 DNS resolver
Defining an IPv6 DNS entry
Pinging an IPv6 address
Configuring an IPv6 Syslog server
Viewing IPv6 SNMP server addresses
Disabling router advertisement and solicitation messages
Disabling IPv6 on a Layer 2 switch
Static IPv6 route configuration
Configuring a static IPv6 route
Static IPv6 route configuration
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Parameter Configuration details Status
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
FIGURE 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel configuration notes
Clearing IPv6 tunnel statistics
Displaying IPv6 tunnel information
Displaying a summary of tunnel information
Displaying tunnel interface information
TABLE 25
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
Displaying interface level IPv6 settings
TABLE 26
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels 5
ECMP load sharing for IPv6
Disabling or re-enabling ECMP load sharing for IPv6
Changing the maximum load sharing paths for IPv6
Enabling support for network-based ECMP load sharing for IPv6
Displaying ECMP load-sharing information for IPv6
IPv6 ICMP feature configuration
Configuring ICMP rate limiting
Enabling IPv6 ICMP redirect messages
IPv6 neighbor discovery configuration
IPv6 neighbor discovery configuration notes
Neighbor solicitation and advertisement messages
Router advertisement and solicitation messages
Neighbor redirect messages
Setting neighbor solicitation parameters for duplicate address detection
Setting IPv6 router advertisement parameters
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Prefixes advertised in IPv6 router advertisement messages
Setting flags in IPv6 router advertisement messages
Enabling and disabling IPv6 router advertisements
Configuring reachable time for remote IPv6 nodes
IPv6 MTU
Configuration notes and feature limitations for IPv6 MTU
Changing the IPv6 MTU
Static neighbor entries configuration
Limiting the number of hops an IPv6 packet can traverse
IPv6 source routing security enhancements
Clearing global IPv6 information
Clearing the IPv6 cache
Clearing IPv6 neighbor information
Clearing IPv6 routes from the IPv6 route table
Displaying global IPv6 information
Displaying IPv6 cache information
Displaying IPv6 interface information
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Displaying IPv6 neighbor information
TABLE 31
Displaying the IPv6 route table
TABLE 31
Displaying local IPv6 routers
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Displaying IPv6 TCP information
TABLE 34
Syntax: show ipv6 tcp connections
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Displaying IPv6 traffic statistics
To display IPv6 traffic statistics, enter the following command at any CLI level.
Syntax: show ipv6 traffic This show ipv6 traffic command displays the following information.
IPv6 statistics
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SNMP Access
SNMP overview
SNMP community strings
Encryption of SNMP community strings
Adding an SNMP community string
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Displaying the SNMP community strings
User-based security model
Configuring your NMS
Configuring SNMP version 3 on Brocade ICX 6650 devices
Defining the engine id
Defining an SNMP group
Defining an SNMP user account
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Defining SNMP views
SNMP version 3 traps
Defining an SNMP group and specifying which view is notified of traps
Defining the UDP port for SNMP v3 traps
Trap MIB changes
Backward compatibility with SMIv1 trap format
Specifying an IPv6 host as an SNMP trap receiver
SNMP v3 over IPv6
Restricting SNMP Access to an IPv6 Node
Specifying an IPv6 host as an SNMP trap receiver
Viewing IPv6 SNMP server addresses
Displaying SNMP Information
Displaying the Engine ID
Displaying SNMP groups
Displaying user information
Interpreting varbinds in report packets
SNMP v3 configuration examples 6
SNMP v3 configuration examples
The following sections present examples of how to configure SNMP v3.
Simple SNMP v3 configuration
More detailed SNMP v3 configuration
Varbind object Identifier Description
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Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Packets
FDP Overview
TABLE 38
FDP configuration
Enabling FDP globally
Enabling FDP at the interface level
Specifying the IP management address to advertise
Changing the FDP update timer
Displaying FDP information
Displaying neighbor information
FDP Overview
To display detailed information, enter the show fdp neighbor detail command.
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FDP Overview 7 The show fdp neighbor detail command displays the following information.
Displaying FDP entries
TABLE 40
Displaying FDP information for an interface
Displaying FDP and CDP statistics
Clearing FDP and CDP information
Clearing FDP and CDP neighbor information
Clearing FDP and CDP statistics
CDP packets
Enabling interception of CDP packets globally
Enabling interception of CDP packets on an interface
Displaying CDP information
Displaying neighbors
CDP packets 7
Syntax: show fdp entry * | <device-id>
Displaying CDP entries
To display CDP entries for all neighbors, enter the show fdp entry command.
Displaying CDP statistics
Clearing CDP information
LLDP and LLDP-MED
LLDP terms used in this chapter
TABLE 41
LLDP overview
FIGURE 11
Benefits of LLDP
LLDP-MED overview
FIGURE 12
Benefits of LLDP-MED
LLDP-MED class
General LLDP operating principles
LLDP operating modes
LLDP transmit mode
LLDP receive mode
LLDP packets
FIGURE 13
TLV support
LLDP TLVs
LLDP-MED TLVs
Mandatory TLVs
TABLE 42
FIGURE 14
TABLE 43
FIGURE 15
MIB support
Syslog messages
LLDP configuration
LLDP configuration notes and considerations
TABLE 44
Enabling and disabling LLDP
Enabling support for tagged LLDP packets
Changing a port LLDP operating mode
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Maximum number of LLDP neighbors
Specifying the maximum number of LLDP neighbors per device
Specifying the maximum number of LLDP neighbors per port
Enabling LLDP SNMP notifications and Syslog messages
Specifying the minimum time between SNMP traps and Syslog messages
Changing the minimum time between LLDP transmissions
Changing the interval between regular LLDP transmissions
Changing the holdtime multiplier for transmit TTL
Changing the minimum time between port reinitializations
LLDP TLVs advertised by the Brocade device
General system information for LLDP
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802.1 capabilities
802.3 capabilities
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LLDP-MED configuration
Enabling LLDP-MED
Enabling SNMP notifications and Syslog messages for LLDP-MED topology changes
TABLE 45
Changing the fast start repeat count
Defining a location id
Coordinate-based location
Configuring civic address location
LLDP-MED configuration
TABLE 46
Civic Address (CA)
Description Acceptable values / examples
LLDP-MED configuration 8
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Description Acceptable values / examples
Civic Address (CA)
Configuring emergency call service
TABLE 46
Defining an LLDP-MED network policy
LLDP-MED network policy configuration syntax
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LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device
LLDP-MED capabilities
Displaying LLDP statistics and configuration settings
LLDP configuration summary
Displaying LLDP statistics
LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device
Syntax: show lldp statistics
LLDP-MED attributes advertised by the Brocade device 8
Displaying LLDP neighbors
Displaying LLDP neighbors detail
Displaying LLDP configuration details
Resetting LLDP statistics
Clearing cached LLDP neighbor information
Hardware Component Monitoring
Digital optical monitoring
Digital optical monitoring configuration limitations
Enabling digital optical monitoring
TABLE 47
Setting the alarm interval
Displaying information about installed media
Digital optical monitoring 9
Use the show media slot command to obtain information about the media device installed in a slot.
Viewing optical monitoring information
Viewing optical transceiver thresholds
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TABLE 49
Syslog messages for optical transceivers
Syslog
TABLE 50
About Syslog messages
Displaying Syslog messages
Enabling real-time display of Syslog messages
Enabling real-time display for a Telnet or SSH session
Displaying real-time Syslog messages
Syslog service configuration
Displaying the Syslog configuration
Static and dynamic buffers
TABLE 51
Clearing log entries
Time stamps
Disabling or re-enabling Syslog
Specifying a Syslog server
Specifying an additional Syslog server
Disabling logging of a message level
Changing the number of entries the local buffer can hold
Local buffer configuration notes
Changing the log facility
Displaying interface names in Syslog messages
Displaying TCP or UDP port numbers in Syslog messages
Retaining Syslog messages after a soft reboot
Syslog reboot configuration considerations
Clearing the Syslog messages from the local buffer
Network Monitoring
Basic system management
Viewing system information
TABLE 52
Viewing configuration information
Viewing port statistics
TABLE 53
Basic system management
Statistics
TABLE 53
Parameter Description
Basic system management 11
Viewing STP statistics
TABLE 53
Parameter Description
Clearing statistics
Basic system management 11
Viewing egress queue counters
Clearing the egress queue counters
RMON support
Maximum number of entries allowed in the RMON control table
TABLE 54
Statistics (RMON group 1)
TABLE 55
RMON support
History (RMON group 2)
Alarm (RMON group 3)
Event (RMON group 9)
sFlow
sFlow version 5
sFlow support for IPv6 packets
Extended router information
Extended gateway information
sFlow configuration considerations
sFlow and hardware support
sFlow and CPU utilization
sFlow and source address
sFlow and source port
Configuring and enabling sFlow
Specifying the collector
Changing the polling interval
Changing the sampling rate
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Changing the sFlow source port
Enabling sFlow forwarding
Command syntax for enabling sFlow forwarding
sFlow version 5 feature configuration
Egress interface ID for sampled broadcast and multicast packets
Specifying the sFlow version format
Specifying the sFlow agent IP address
Specifying the version used for exporting sFlow data
Specifying the maximum flow sample size
Exporting CPU and memory usage information to the sFlow collector
Exporting CPU-directed data (management traffic) to the sFlow collector
Displaying sFlow information
sFlow
Syntax: show sflow The show sflow command displays the following information.
TABLE 56
Clearing sFlow statistics
TABLE 56
Utilization list for an uplink port
Utilization list for an uplink port command syntax
Displaying utilization percentages for an uplink
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Appendix
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Syslog messages
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Appendix
B
NIAP-CCEVS Certification
NIAP-CCEVS certified Brocade equipment and Ironware releases
Local user password changes
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