Brocade Communications Systems 804 manual About the BCU, BCU commands

B About the BCU

About the BCU

This appendix provides reference documentation for the Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU) supporting the Brocade Fibre Channel components.

BCU runs in two modes:

•Direct mode, where you type the command at the command prompt. For example: bcu port --topology <port_id> <autop2p>

•Shell mode, accessed using bcu> port --topology

the bcu shell; for example, <port_id> <autop2p>.

-To access the shell mode, type bcu shell.

-To exit out of shell mode, type exit.

All the commands in this appendix are shown in the direct mode. For example:

bcu port --topology <port_id> <autop2p>

To list all the commands and subcommands, type the following command:

bcu --help

To check the CLI and Driver version number, type the following command:

bcu --version

BCU commands

The following table lists the Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU) commands alphabetically that are available for configuring the devices in a SAN environment that use a Brocade adapter.

Command	Operands	Synopsis
bcu --help		Lists all available sub-commands.
bcu <sub_command> --help		Lists all details about the specific subcommand.
Adapter commands
bcu adapter	--list
	--name	<serial-no> <adapter-name>
	--query	<ad_id>
	--enable	<ad_id>
	--disable	<ad_id>
Authentication commands
bcu auth	--show	<port_id>
	--policy	<port_id> <on off>
	--reinit	<port_id>
	--algo	<port_id> <md5 sha1 ms sm>
	--secret	<port_id> “secret string”
	--stats	<port_id>

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