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BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 8 of 44 Table 1: Password Policy CLI Commands BASE FABRIC OS V5.

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 9 of 44 POLICY DISTRIBUTION • Each switch can be set to Accept o

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 10 of 44 DH-CHAP Fabric OS v5.3.0 uses DH-CHAP and FCAP protocols

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 11 of 44 2 MANAGEMENT TOOLS 2.1 IMPLEMENTING SAN MANAGEMENT TOO

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 12 of 44 REQUIREMENTS To view the route between two products, th

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 13 of 44 EFCM GROUP MANAGER Group Manager allows Event logs, fir

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 14 of 44 ESCM HBA MANAGEMENT TOOL With ESCM you can: • Collect

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 15 of 44 MONITORING B-SERIES SWITCHES • Use pathinfo, topologysho

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 16 of 44 FABRIC MANAGER Fabric Manager is a GUI based application

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 17 of 44 FABRIC MANAGER CHANGE MANAGEMENT Fabric Manager Change M

© 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 03/08Brocade, the Brocade B-weave logo, Fabric OS, File Lifecycle Manager, MyView, Se

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 18 of 44 3 REPORTING AND DOCUMENTATION 3.1 SAN DOCUMENTATION SA

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 19 of 44 3.2 TOOLS TO DOCUMENT A SAN TOOLS • EFCM Standard • EFC

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 20 of 44 4 TROUBLESHOOTING 4.1 METHODS & TOOLS FOR TROUBLES

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 21 of 44 For device sharing related issues, two commands are very

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 22 of 44 SAMPLE FABRIC MERGE ERROR MESSAGES Domain ID Conflict er

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 23 of 44 COLLECTING INFORMATION FOR TROUBLESHOOTING No Does the t

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 24 of 44 The fcping command can also be used to identify a margin

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 25 of 44 4.2 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR PROBLEM ESCALA

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 26 of 44 5 SAN MONITORING 5.1 IDENTIFYING TOOLS TO MONITOR A SA

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 27 of 44 5.2 HOW TO MONITOR AND MANAGE SHARED DEVICES BETWEEN ED

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 1 of 44 Welcome to the BCSM in a Nutshell 2008 edition. Obj

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 28 of 44 VERIFYING DEVICE CONNECTIVITY Use the cfgshow command on

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 29 of 44 5.3 HOW TO MONITOR AND MANAGE DEVICES EFCM AND ZONING I

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 30 of 44 ZONING IN A B-SERIES FABRIC Some best practices: • Moni

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 31 of 44

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 32 of 44 6 SAN CONFIGURATION 6.1 MANAGING FICON FABRICS Cascade

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 33 of 44 CASCADED DIRECTOR REQUIREMENTS FOR B-SERIESRequires Secu

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 34 of 44 6.2 PERFORMING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE MEASURING LATENCY EF

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 35 of 44 ISL AND TRUNK MAINTENANCE In order to have fabrics merge

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 36 of 44 6.3 MAINTAINING SAN EXTENSION SOLUTIONS VALIDATE THE IP

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 37 of 44 BB CREDITS Speed Credits/km Credits/50 km Credits/100

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 2 of 44 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables ...

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 38 of 44 6.4 MANAGING ACCESS GATEWAY SOLUTIONS Figure 8: Access

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 39 of 44 ACCESS GATEWAY PORT MAPPING A Brocade Access Gateway use

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 40 of 44 The Access Gateway uses NPIV to assign the 24-bit FC ad

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 41 of 44 7 TAKING THE TEST Once the test begins, you will first

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 42 of 44 After the Introduction Screen, once you click on Next, y

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 43 of 44 Once you agree to the terms, then the timed test will be

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 44 of 44 When you complete the test, you will see a summary of yo

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 3 of 44 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Password Policy CLI Commands...

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 4 of 44 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: EFCM Routing...

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 5 of 44 1 SECURITY 1.1 MANAGING SAN SECURITY PROTECTING YOUR MA

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 6 of 44 ADDITIONAL BEST PRACTICES • Implement the Track Changes

BCSM IN A NUTSHELL 2008 © 2008 Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated. Page 7 of 44 ACCOUNT LOCKOUT POLICY • Disables a user account when th