Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-4 manual Switch

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1.Open a Telnet session and log in to the Brocade DCX 8510-4 as admin. The default password is password. Enable the logging function on your Telnet or serial console connection.

2.Back up the current configuration.

NOTE

If you are using the Virtual Fabric feature, you should run configupload -vfbefore running the configupload command to save the logical switch configuration.

• Enter configUpload -all; then enter the requested information at the prompts.

This command uploads the Brocade DCX 8510-4 configuration to the customer-defined FTP server, making it available for downloading. For more information about this command, refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference.

switch:admin> configupload Protocol (scp or ftp) [ftp]: ftp

Server Name or IP Address [host]: 123.123.123.123

User Name [user]: Admin24

File Name [config.txt]: config-switch0.txt Password:

Upload complete switch:admin>

• Alternatively, you can save the configuration file to a Brocade USB device.

3.Record the WWN value: Enter wwn; then copy the command output into a file named config-miscinfo.txt.

switch:admin> wwn 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:0a

4. Record the IP address information.

Enter ipAddrShow -sw; then copy the command output into the config-miscinfo.txt file.

switch:admin> ipaddrshow -sw

SWITCH

Ethernet IP Address: 10.32.50.12

Ethernet Subnetmask: 255.55.0.0

Fibre Channel IP Address: 1.2.3.4

Fibre Channel Subnetmask: 255.255.255.0

CP0

Ethernet IP Address: 10.32.50.10

Ethernet Subnetmask: 255.55.0.0

HostName : cp0

Gateway Address: 10.32.40.1

CP1

Ethernet IP Address: 10.32.50.11

Ethernet Subnetmask: 255.55.0.0

HostName : cp1

Gateway Address: 10.32.40.1

Backplane IP address of CP0 : 10.0.0.6

Backplane IP address of CP1 : 10.0.0.7 switch:admin>switch:admin>

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