HP Fabric OS v7.0.1, Administrator'S Manual

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Basic connections
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The system is halted
flushing ide devices: hda
Power down.
5. Power off the switch.
Powering off a Brocade Backbone
1. From the active CP in a dual-CP platform, enter the sysShutdown command.
NOTE
When the sysShutdown command is issued on the active CP, the active CP, the standby CP, and
any application blades are all shut down.
2. Enter y at the prompt.
3. Wait until the following message displays:
DCX:FID128:admin> sysshutdown
This command will shutdown the operating systems on your switch.
You are required to power-cycle the switch in order to restore operation.
Are you sure you want to shutdown the switch [y/n]?y
HA is disabled
Stopping blade 10
Shutting down the blade....
Stopping blade 12
Shutting down the blade....
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Fri Oct 10 08:36:48 2008...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
4. Power off the switch.
Basic connections
Before connecting a switch to a fabric that contains switches running different firmware versions,
you must first set the same port identification (PID) format on all switches. The presence of
different PID formats in a fabric causes fabric segmentation.
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For information on PID formats and related procedures, refer to Chapter 3, “Performing
Advanced Configuration Tasks” .
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For information on configuring the routing of connections, refer to Chapter 4, “Routing Traffic” .
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For information on configuring extended inter-switch connections, refer to Chapter 23,
“Managing Long Distance Fabrics” .
Device connection
To minimize port logins, power off all devices before connecting them to the switch. When powering
the devices back on, wait for each device to complete the fabric login before powering on the next
one.
For devices that cannot be powered off, first use the portDisable command to disable the port on
the switch, connect the device, and then use the portEnable command to enable the port.