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December 5, 2008

EZSwitchSetup

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v6.2.0

Supporting Brocade 200E, 300, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300

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Page 1: ...53 1001193 02 December 5 2008 EZSwitchSetup Administrator s Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6 2 0 Supporting Brocade 200E 300 4100 4900 5000 5100 5300...

Page 2: ...uthors and Brocade Communications Systems Inc shall have no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss cost liability or damages arising from the information containe...

Page 3: ...itch support Added DHCP and IPv6 support June 2007 EZSwitchSetup Administrator s Guide 53 1000607 01 Added enhanced switch setup October 2007 EZSwitchSetup Administrator s Guide 53 1000607 02 Added su...

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Page 5: ...r 1 Overview of EZSwitchSetup 1 EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements 2 Configuring Internet Explorer 2 Supported switches 3 Language support for EZSwitchSetup 4 Chapter 2 Setting Up Your S...

Page 6: ...ply status 31 Port status 33 Switch Information tab 34 Port information tab 35 Changing switch information 36 Enable inactive ports 36 Managing devices 37 Device connections 38 Assigning and renaming...

Page 7: ...is document contains the following components Chapter 1 Introducing EZSwitchSetup provides basic information about the EZSwitchSetup interface including system requirements and installation instructio...

Page 8: ...ations Systems Inc for Fabric OS 6 2 0 documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document however this document does specify when procedures or parts of procedu...

Page 9: ...ple switchShow In actual examples command lettercase is often all lowercase Otherwise this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case sensitive Notes Cautions and Warnings The fo...

Page 10: ...hes through http www amazon com For additional Brocade documentation visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the Resource Library location http www brocade com Release notes are available on the B...

Page 11: ...umber label is located as follows Brocade 300 and 200E switches On the nonport side of the chassis Brocade 300 4100 4900 5000 5100 and 5300 switches On the switch ID pull out tab located on the bottom...

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Page 13: ...hSetup wizard on the installation CD EZSwitchSetup switch configuration wizard EZSwitchSetup switch manager Figure 1 illustrates the high level workflow of EZSwitchSetup FIGURE 1 EZSwitchSetup Compone...

Page 14: ...ws system are as follows 90 MB of hard drive space for the EZSS installation directory 256 MB or more RAM for fabrics containing up to 15 switches A minimum of 8 MB of video RAM is also recommended An...

Page 15: ...et LAN that is accessible by the host If it is not the system issues the message Page not Found It must be in a single switch fabric If your switch connects to another switch if there is an E_Port on...

Page 16: ...ate language For example if you set up the switch using a German operating system EZSwitchSetup installs the German language interface and displays text messages and labels in that language If localiz...

Page 17: ...the setup computer The first step in setting up your switch is to install the EZSwitchSetup wizard which is located on the EZSwitchSetup installation CD 1 Insert the EZSwitchSetup CD into the CD ROM...

Page 18: ...SwitchSetup Installer Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard On Windows From the Start menu select Programs EZSwitchSetup EZSwitchSetup On Linux Navigate to the following path location on the CD ROM CD RO...

Page 19: ...ng a serial connection or an Ethernet connection to your LAN to set the IP address for the switch Choose the method you want to use for your installation You may want to use the serial connection if i...

Page 20: ...without serial cable Figure 6 shows the cables connecting to the Brocade Fibre Channel switch setup computer Ethernet hub or switch and network NOTE Not all switches have their serial and Ethernet con...

Page 21: ...Ethernet connection will be available when you start the EZSwitchSetup manager 5 If you are using a serial connection for set up connect your setup computer to the serial port on the switch using the...

Page 22: ...igure 7 FIGURE 7 First Discover Switch screen a Locate the WWN for your switch Brocade 200E switches Look on the back non port side of the chassis Brocade 300 4100 4900 5000 5100 and 5300 switches Loo...

Page 23: ...using default credentials If you have already changed your admin password you will be prompted to enter your new password After the login is processed the Set Switch IP Address screen is displayed Fi...

Page 24: ...Address screen Figure 10 is displayed after you have assigned IP addresses using either a serial connection or an Ethernet connection 1 Check the displayed addresses carefully to be sure they are corr...

Page 25: ...EZSwitchSetup as an IP configuration tool and do not want to use EZSwitchSetup Manager as a management tool for the switch Enable and start the EZSwitchSetup Manager by clicking Continue with EZManage...

Page 26: ...ger A browser window opens and loads and the Switch Configuration Welcome screen is displayed Figure 13 This may take a few minutes If EZSetup does not launch you must launch it manually by specifying...

Page 27: ...licts can also occur with the I O address of the COM port The 8514a video chip or its clones S3 chip set on some video cards create a conflict with COM4 because they use the same address of 02E8 The s...

Page 28: ...uration wizard steps you through the process of changing your administrative password and zoning You begin at the Welcome to Switch Configuration screen Figure 13 FIGURE 13 Switch configuration welcom...

Page 29: ...that any host device connected to an H port is able to communicate with any storage device connected to an S port Custom Zoning allows you to customize which initiators access which targets and creat...

Page 30: ...n the Specify Devices screen Figure 16 do the following 1 Enter the number of HBA connections that you want to attach to the switch Be sure to include existing HBA connections and any additional HBA c...

Page 31: ...id green for correctly attached devices or to solid red when devices are attached at ports with non matching reservations When a red line appears the mismatch may be corrected either by moving the dev...

Page 32: ...nto a zoning scheme that ensures that every correctly connected host device can communicate separately with every correctly connected storage device If this is not what you want for example if you wan...

Page 33: ...ly as indicated on the Configure Ports and Connect Devices screen a Remove any plastic protectors from the Fibre Channel cable ends and position the cable connector so that it is oriented correctly b...

Page 34: ...ates an invalid connection and a blue line indicates a missing connection FIGURE 19 Installing Fibre Channel Cable to an SFP 3 Verify that the connections displayed on the Configure Ports and Connect...

Page 35: ...h screen 5 Click Finish to complete the switch setup You are now ready to configure the storage component of the SAN using the documentation that came with the storage server If you want to monitor th...

Page 36: ...24 EZSwitchSetup Administrator s Guide 53 1001193 02 Connecting devices and completing the setup 2...

Page 37: ...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...

Page 38: ...add PODs by enabling inactive ports The Devices tasks enable you to view the devices attached to the switch display the device connections and modify a device alias The Zoning tasks enable you to view...

Page 39: ...Copy and Search buttons used in earlier releases FIGURE 22 Content page Port Information tab NOTE You must accept the Brocade Certificate at the beginning of the login to EZSwitch Manager to enable t...

Page 40: ...nager on any workstation with a compatible Web browser installed For a list of Web browsers compatible with Fabric OS v6 2 0 see Table 1 on page 2 Switch Manager also supports the HTTPS protocol if th...

Page 41: ...er switches and relaunch EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager 1 Type your user name 2 Type the password 3 Click OK A Switch Manager session is established and the Switch View is displayed Figure 23 Switch Man...

Page 42: ...ation 1 Click View in the task panel under Switch 2 Click the Switch Information tab to display the Switch View Figure 23 displays the Switch View for a Brocade 200E switch FIGURE 23 Graphical View of...

Page 43: ...w opens Figure 24 shows the status indicators that can appear on the fan temperature or power supply button FIGURE 24 Fan temperature and power supply legend Viewing fan temperature and power supply s...

Page 44: ...w The temperature view displays the number of temperature sensors their status and the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit FIGURE 26 Temperature status Figure 27 shows the Power Supply view The...

Page 45: ...buffer limited A port is operating in buffer limited mode when the number of buffers allocated to the port is less than the number of buffers needed by the port to utilize the port at full bandwidth...

Page 46: ...own in Figure 30 FIGURE 30 Port State and Port Speed LEDs Switch Information tab The Switch Information tab is the default information tab under Port Information Switch Information on the Switch View...

Page 47: ...tion Figure 32 Detailed port information is displayed as a categorized list of properties which may be viewed copied or exported by category as desired FIGURE 32 Port Information tab The information p...

Page 48: ...et up the switch 1 Click Setup under Switch in the task panel The Switch Configuration launches 2 Follow the instructions in the wizard You can optionally change the switch name switch time and admin...

Page 49: ...l to display a table of information for all of the connected devices Figure 34 The entries in the table are based on the device WWNs so a single physical device can have more than one entry in the tab...

Page 50: ...Switch Manager displays a graphical representation of the switch and the devices that are connected to each port Click Display Connections under Devices in the task panel A graphical representation o...

Page 51: ...ollowing procedure 1 Select Modify Alias under Devices in the task panel The Define Device Aliases wizard is displayed Figure 38 The first time the Define Device Aliases wizard is started the New Alia...

Page 52: ...ete the aliases of any offline devices Follow the instructions in the wizard The next time you select Modify Alias the Current Alias column is populated with the New Alias names Figure 39 FIGURE 39 De...

Page 53: ...ypical Zoning a port based zoning scheme was created This zoning scheme creates a two member zone for every possible pairing of H and S ports connected on the Configure Ports and Connect Devices scree...

Page 54: ...in the Zoning task panel This starts a wizard that creates a new Custom Zoning scheme based on your device accessibility choices If you make any zoning changes to the default Typical Zoning configura...

Page 55: ...ning scheme 6 When you are done making changes click Next and the zoning Summary and Confirmation screen is displayed Figure 43 Use the Print button if you would like a printed record of the zoning sc...

Page 56: ...s from the zoning database 1 Click Validate under Zoning in the task panel The Validate Zoning wizard launches 2 Follow the instructions in the wizard 3 Note any devices that are not zoned properly an...

Page 57: ...relaunch EZSwitchSetup Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager If you want to be sure that the EZSwitchSetup Manager is launched as the default switch management program from your web browse...

Page 58: ...me subnet as your setup computer and the switch and it must be enabled before running the EZSwitchSetup wizard You can enable DHCP by taking the following steps 1 Open a Telnet window 2 Log in to the...

Page 59: ...and try again if necessary This indicates that an HTTP request did not get a response The request was sent to the switch but the connection was down probably caused by a temporary loss of the Web ser...

Page 60: ...closing this message If the temporary switch connection loss is caused by switch hot code load or other similar operation the Switch Explorer you are currently running can be downloaded from a differe...

Page 61: ...l support xvii D defining device aliases 37 device aliases defining 37 device connections displaying 36 device information displaying 35 displaying device connections 36 device information 35 port inf...

Page 62: ...S security banner 28 session management 29 sessions ending 29 setting refresh frequency 2 SFPs installing 20 soft zones 38 support contacting technical xvii supported languages 4 supported switches 3...

Page 63: ...0 changing configuration 34 configuration displaying 38 configure zones 18 connect devices 20 custom zoning 17 39 editing 40 hard zones 38 restoring default typical zoning 41 soft zones 38 specify dev...

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