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Device login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Principal switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
E_Port login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Fabric login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Port login process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
RSCNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Duplicate Port World Wide Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
High availability of daemon processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2
Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fabric OS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fabric OS command line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Console sessions using the serial port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Telnet or SSH sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Getting help on a command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Password modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Default account passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Ethernet interface on your switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Virtual Fabrics and the Ethernet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Displaying the network interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Static Ethernet addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
DHCP activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
IPv6 autoconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Date and time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Time zone settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Network time protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Displaying the domain IDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Setting the domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Switch names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Customizing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chassis names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Customizing chassis names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Fabric name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the fabric name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
High availability considerations for fabric names . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for fabric names. . . . 31
Config file upload and download considerations for
fabric names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switch activation and deactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Enabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
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