53-1004106-15 Installation Guide
Brocade
®
X6-4 Director Hardware Installation Guide
Initial Setup and Verification
Before connecting the device to the fabric, perform the following tasks to initially configure and set up the device, verify
correct operation, and back up the configuration.
The configuration information is mirrored to the standby CP blade, which allows the current configuration to remain
available even if the active CP blade fails. The configuration information for the device is stored in the WWN cards and the
flash memory of the CP blades. The configuration can be backed up to a workstation (uploaded) and then downloaded to
the active CP blade if necessary.
NOTE
The device WWN is set by the factory to match the license ID (which is based on the chassis serial number).
Table 13: Configuration and Verification Tasks
Task
Task Details or Additional Information
Establish a serial connection to the director.
Connect a serial cable to the port labeled "Console" on the active CP blade
and use a terminal emulator program (such as HyperTerminal on a PC, or
TERM, TIP, or Kermit in a UNIX environment) to log on to the console port
and device. The blue "Active" LED illuminates on the active CP blade.
Configure IP addresses for the device.
Configure an IP address and subnet mask for a chassis management
connection.
Configure IP addresses, host names, subnet masks, and gateway
addresses for both control processor (CP) blades.
Establish an Ethernet connection to the device.
Connect Ethernet cable to active CP blade Ethernet port labeled
"Management" and establish a connection.
Set a unique domain ID for the device.
Disable the device using the
switchDisable
command, and then use
the
configure
command to step through prompts to configure a domain
ID. Use
switchEnable
to re-enable the device.
Set the date and time for the device.
Use the
date
,
tsTimeZone
, and
tsClockServer
commands to set
date, time zone, and synchronize local time of device with the NTP server.
Customize the switch and chassis name for the device.
Use the
switchName
command, followed by new name in quote marks (
switchName
"bigswitch".)
Use the
chassisname
command followed by the new name in quote
marks ( "chassis_002").
Verify installed licenses and the license key.
Enter the
license --show
or
licenseshow
command to display
installed licenses.
The
license --show
command displays a 'License Id," which is the
same as the switchWwn displayed in the output of the
switchshow
command for the default switch.
Record the license key and chassis ID for future reference.
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