Brocade Communications Systems 300, 4100, 4900, 5100, 6510, 800, VA-40FC Managing Your Switch

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 25

53-1002157-01

Chapter

3

Managing Your Switch

In this chapter

•Switch manager overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

•Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

•Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

•Changing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•Add port license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

•Managing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

•Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

•Accessing Web Tools for advanced management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Switch manager overview

The EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager is a simplified version of Web Tools. It streamlines switch

management by providing an easy-to-use subset of basic switch management tasks.

You can use the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager to do the following:

•Monitor the switch, including port and field replacable unit (FRU) status

•Manage custom zoning

•Perform basic switch configurations

•Add Ports On Demand (POD)

The Switch Manager works for a single-switch fabric only. It displays only the switch and associated

tasks, without fabric information.

Figure 20 shows an example of the initial Switch Manager screen. The window appearance may

vary depending on the switch model. The following sections describe the components of the

screen.

Contents

Main Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated Document History Title Publication number Summary of changes Date Page Contents About This Document Chapter 1 Introducing EZSwitchSetup Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Switch Chapter 3 Managing Your Switch Appendix A EZSwitchSetup Limitations Index About This Document How this document is organized Supported hardware and software Whats new in this document Document conventions Text formatting ATTENTION Notes, Cautions, and Warnings Key terms Notice to the reader Additional Information Brocade resources Other industry resources Getting technical help Page Introducing EZSwitchSetup Overview of EZSwitchSetup EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements Configuring Internet Explorer TABLE 1 FIGURE 2 Supported switches Language support for EZSwitchSetup Setting Up Your Switch Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard FIGURE 3 Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard FIGURE 4 Connecting cables Page FIGURE 6 6 C 1 Discovering the switch FIGURE 8 FIGURE 9 Confirming IP addresses FIGURE 10 FIGURE 11 Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard 2 Switch discovery failure TABLE 2 Symptom Correction For serial connections: For Ethernet connections: Configuring the switch Setting switch parameters Zoning selection options FIGURE 14 Configuring zones on the switch Specifying devices FIGURE 15 Connecting devices and completing the setup FIGURE 16 Page FIGURE 18 FIGURE 19 Page Managing Your Switch Switch manager overview FIGURE 20 Task panel Switch View Content page FIGURE 21 Status bar Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager Logging in Switch Manager sessions Logging out Viewing switch information Viewing the status indicator legend Viewing fan, temperature, and power supply status FIGURE 25 FIGURE 26 Port status FIGURE 27 FIGURE 28 FIGURE 29 Switch Information tab Port information tab Changing switch information Add port license Managing devices Page Device connections FIGURE 36 Assigning and renaming device aliases FIGURE 37 FIGURE 38 Page Zoning management Viewing the zone access map FIGURE 40 Editing the zoning configuration FIGURE 41 FIGURE 42 Validating zoning configuration Restoring Typical Zoning Accessing Web Tools for advanced management Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager Page Appendix A EZSwitchSetup Limitations General limitations Table 3 lists general EZSwitchSetup limitations, which apply to all browsers and switch platforms. TABLE 3 Page Index A B C D L M O P R Z