Broadcom Brocade EZSwitchSetup Administration, 8.1.0 User guide

Supporting EZSwitchSetup 8.1.0

ADMINISTRATION GUIDE

Brocade EZSwitchSetup

Administration Guide, 8.1.0

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14 December 2016

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Contents

Preface...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................5

Document conventions............................................................................................................................................................................................................................5

Notes, cautions, and warnings.....................................................................................................................................................................................................5

Text formatting conventions......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Command syntax conventions....................................................................................................................................................................................................6

Brocade resources.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................6

Document feedback..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................6

Contacting Brocade Technical Support............................................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Brocade customers..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................7

Brocade OEM customers............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7

About This Document........................................................................................................................................................................................................9

Supported hardware and software......................................................................................................................................................................................................9

Brocade 8-Gbps xed-port switches.......................................................................................................................................................................................9

Brocade Gen 5 (16-Gbps) xed-port switches...................................................................................................................................................................9

Brocade Gen 6 xed-port switches..........................................................................................................................................................................................9

What’s new in this document................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9

Changes made for EZSwitchSetup 8.1.0.............................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Introducing EZSwitchSetup........................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Overview of EZSwitchSetup...............................................................................................................................................................................................................11

EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements.............................................................................................................................................................12

Conguring Internet Explorer....................................................................................................................................................................................................12

Supported switches................................................................................................................................................................................................................................13

Language support for EZSwitchSetup...........................................................................................................................................................................................14

Setting Up Your Switch................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard......................................................................................................................................................................15

Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard.................................................................................................................................................................................. 17

Connecting cables.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................18

Discovering the switch.................................................................................................................................................................................................................23

Conrming IP addresses............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25

Switch discovery failure...............................................................................................................................................................................................................29

Conguring the switch...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................30

Setting switch parameters..........................................................................................................................................................................................................31

Zoning selection options......................................................................................................................................................................................................................31

Conguring zones on the switch.............................................................................................................................................................................................33

Specifying devices.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................34

Connecting devices and completing the setup.......................................................................................................................................................................... 35

Managing Your Switch.....................................................................................................................................................................................................39

Switch Manager overview....................................................................................................................................................................................................................39

Tasks panel.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40

Switch View...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40

Content page................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40

Status bar.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 42

Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager........................................................................................................................................................................42

Logging in.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................44

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Switch Manager sessions...........................................................................................................................................................................................................44

Logging out......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................44

Viewing switch information................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 45

Viewing the status indicator legend........................................................................................................................................................................................46

Viewing fan, temperature, and power supply status........................................................................................................................................................47

Port status.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................48

Switch Information tab.................................................................................................................................................................................................................50

Port Information tab......................................................................................................................................................................................................................50

Changing switch information..............................................................................................................................................................................................................51

Adding a port license.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................52

Managing devices...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................52

Device connections.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................56

Assigning and renaming device aliases................................................................................................................................................................................58

Zoning management.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................60

Viewing the Zone Access Map for Devices........................................................................................................................................................................61

Editing the zoning conguration..............................................................................................................................................................................................62

Validating zoning conguration................................................................................................................................................................................................64

Restoring Typical Zoning............................................................................................................................................................................................................65

Accessing Web Tools for advanced management....................................................................................................................................................................65

Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager....................................................................................................................................................65

EZSwitchSetup Limitations............................................................................................................................................................................................67

General limitations.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 67

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Preface

• Document conventions...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

• Brocade resources............................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

• Document feedback............................................................................................................................................................................................6

• Contacting Brocade Technical Support.......................................................................................................................................................7

Document conventions

The document conventions describe text formatting conventions, command syntax conventions, and important notice formats used in

Brocade technical documentation.

Notes, cautions, and warnings

Notes, cautions, and warning statements may be used in this document. They are listed in the order of increasing severity of potential

hazards.

NOTE

A Note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference to related information.

ATTENTION

An Attention statement indicates a stronger note, for example, to alert you when trac might be interrupted or the device might

reboot.

CAUTION

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause damage to hardware,

rmware, software, or data.

DANGER

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to you. Safety

labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions or situations.

Text formatting conventions

Text formatting conventions such as boldface, italic, or Courier font may be used to highlight specic words or phrases.

Format Description

bold text Identies command names.

Identies keywords and operands.

Identies the names of GUI elements.

Identies text to enter in the GUI.

italic text Identies emphasis.

Identies variables.

Identies document titles.

Courier font

Identies CLI output.

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Format Description

Identies command syntax examples.

Command syntax conventions

Bold and italic text identify command syntax components. Delimiters and operators

dene groupings of parameters and their logical

relationships.

Convention Description

bold text Identies command names, keywords, and command options.

italic text Identies a variable.

value In Fibre Channel products, a xed value provided as input to a command option is printed in plain text, for

example, --show WWN.

[ ] Syntax components displayed within square brackets are optional.

Default responses to system prompts are enclosed in square brackets.

{ x | y | z } A choice of required parameters is enclosed in curly brackets separated by vertical bars. You must select

one of the options.

In Fibre Channel products, square brackets may be used instead for this purpose.

x | y A vertical bar separates mutually exclusive elements.

< > Nonprinting characters, for example, passwords, are enclosed in angle brackets.

... Repeat the previous element, for example, member[member...].

\ Indicates a “soft” line break in command examples. If a backslash separates two lines of a command

input, enter the entire command at the prompt without the backslash.

Brocade resources

Visit the Brocade website to locate related documentation for your product and additional Brocade resources.

White papers, data sheets, and the most recent versions of Brocade software and hardware manuals are available at www.brocade.com.

Product documentation for all supported releases is available to registered users at MyBrocade.

Click the Support tab and select Document Library to access documentation on MyBrocade or www.brocade.com You can locate

documentation by product or by operating system.

Release notes are bundled with software downloads on MyBrocade. Links to software downloads are available on the MyBrocade landing

page and in the Document Library.

Document feedback

Quality is our

rst concern at Brocade, and we have made every eort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this document.

However, if you nd an error or an omission, or you think that a topic needs further development, we want to hear from you. You can

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Provide the publication title, part number, and as much detail as possible, including the topic heading and page number if applicable, as

well as your suggestions for improvement.

Brocade resources

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Contacting Brocade Technical Support

As a Brocade customer, you can contact Brocade Technical Support 24x7 online or by telephone. Brocade OEM customers should

contact their OEM/solution provider.

Brocade customers

For product support information and the latest information on contacting the Technical Assistance Center, go to www.brocade.com and

select Support.

If you have purchased Brocade product support directly from Brocade, use one of the following methods to contact the Brocade

Technical Assistance Center 24x7.

Online Telephone

Preferred method of contact for non-urgent issues:

• Case management through the MyBrocade portal.

• Quick Access links to Knowledge Base, Community, Document

Library, Software Downloads and Licensing tools

Required for Sev 1-Critical and Sev 2-High issues:

• Continental US: 1-800-752-8061

• Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacic: +800-AT FIBREE

(+800 28 34 27 33)

• Toll-free numbers are available in many countries.

• For areas unable to access a toll-free number:

+1-408-333-6061

Brocade OEM customers

If you have purchased Brocade product support from a Brocade OEM/solution provider, contact your OEM/solution provider for all of

your product support needs.

• OEM/solution providers are trained and

certied by Brocade to support Brocade

®

products.

• Brocade provides backline support for issues that cannot be resolved by the OEM/solution provider.

• Brocade Supplemental Support augments your existing OEM support contract, providing direct access to Brocade expertise.

For more information, contact Brocade or your OEM.

• For questions regarding service levels and response times, contact your OEM/solution provider.

Contacting Brocade Technical Support

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About This Document

• Supported hardware and software.................................................................................................................................................................9

• What’s new in this document...........................................................................................................................................................................9

Supported hardware and software

The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of EZSwitchSetup:

NOTE

Although many dierent software and hardware congurations are tested and supported by Brocade Communication Systems,

Inc., for this release, documenting all possible congurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

Brocade 8-Gbps xed-port switches

• Brocade 300 switch

• Brocade 5100 switch

• Brocade 5300 switch

• Brocade 7800 switch

Brocade Gen 5 (16-Gbps) xed-port switches

• Brocade 6505 switch

• Brocade 6510 switch

• Brocade 6520 switch

• Brocade 7840 Extension Switch

Brocade Gen 6 xed-port switches

• Brocade G610 switch

• Brocade G620 switch

What’s new in this document

This document includes new and

modied information for the EZSwitchSetup application.

Changes made for EZSwitchSetup 8.1.0

The following changes have been made since this document was last released:

• Updated Contacting Brocade Technical Support on page 7.

• Updated supported platform references in the guide.

• Updated EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements on page 12.

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• Updated the note regarding executable le in Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard on page 15.

For further information, refer to the latest release notes.

What’s new in this document

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Introducing EZSwitchSetup

• Overview of EZSwitchSetup......................................................................................................................................................................... 11

• EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements........................................................................................................................12

• Supported switches.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

• Language support for EZSwitchSetup..................................................................................................................................................... 14

Overview of EZSwitchSetup

EZSwitchSetup is an easy-to-use graphical user interface application for setting up and managing your switch. It has the following

components:

• EZSwitchSetup wizard online from MyBrocade portal

• EZSwitchSetup switch conguration wizard

• EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager

The following gure illustrates the high-level workow of EZSwitchSetup.

FIGURE 1 EZSwitchSetup components

Setting Up Your Switch on page 15 describes how to use the EZSwitchSetup wizard and EZSwitchSetup switch conguration wizard to

set up and congure your switch for the rst time. For additional information about your switch, refer to the hardware reference manual.

Managing Your Switch on page 39 describes how to use the Switch Manager to monitor and manage your switch.

NOTE

Although your switch might have advanced capabilities, EZSwitchSetup is for a single-switch fabric with FC ports only. To

congure and manage other features on your switch, use the command line interface, Web Tools, or Brocade Network Advisor.

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EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements

You can run EZSwitchSetup on a SAN host computer or you can use a dierent computer that is not part of the SAN, such as a laptop.

EZSwitchSetup requires a browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0 and JavaScript version 1.0. The EZSwitchSetup installation CD

automatically installs the correct Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for the disk-based installation wizard. This does not aect any pre-

installed JREs, but other program components launched from the switch require Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111 or later to be installed on the

host.

Brocade has certied and tested EZSwitchSetup on the platforms shown in the following table.

TABLE 1 Certied and tested platforms

Operating System Browser JRE version

Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 (32-bit) Firefox 50 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (32-bit) Adv Firefox 50 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (32-bit) Adv Firefox 50 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Firefox 50 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Windows 7 Professional (x86) Firefox 50 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Windows 10 Firefox 50, Internet Explorer 11.0 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Windows 2012 R2 Firefox 50, Internet Explorer 8.0/9.0/11.0 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) Enterprise

(64-Bit)

Firefox 50, Internet Explorer 9.0/10.0/11.0 Oracle JRE 1.8.0_111

The minimum hardware requirements for a Windows system are as follows:

• 90 MB of hard drive space for the EZSwitchSetup installation directory

• 2 GB or more RAM for fabrics containing up to 15 switches

• A minimum of 8 MB of video RAM is also recommended

• An Ethernet port

• A serial (COM) port if you plan to connect to the serial port on the switch

Conguring Internet Explorer

The correct operation of EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager with Internet Explorer requires specifying the appropriate settings for the refresh

frequency of the browser and process model. Browser pages should be refreshed frequently to ensure the correct operation of Switch

Manager.

1. Select Tools > Internet Options.

2. Select the General tab.

3. Click the Settings button under Browsing history.

4. Click Every time I visit the webpage in the Temporary Internet Files and History Settings dialog box, as shown in following

gure.

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5. Click OK to save the changes.

FIGURE 2 Conguring Internet Explorer

Supported switches

You can use EZSwitchSetup with the switches listed in Supported hardware and software.

Your switch must meet the following requirements:

• The switch must be connected to an Ethernet LAN that is accessible by the host. If it is not, the system issues the message

“Page not Found.”

• The switch must have licensed FC ports. If the switch has no licensed FC ports, you must rst install a Ports on Demand (POD)

license and then enable the aected ports. For more information, refer to Adding a port license on page 52.

• The switch must be in a single-switch fabric. If your switch connects to another switch (if there is an E_Port on the switch), you

cannot manage the switch using EZSwitchSetup until you disconnect that switch connection.

NOTE

If there is an E_Port on the switch and if there is a zone conict, then the fabric is segmented; in this case, the switch is in a

fabric by itself and EZSwitchSetup treats it as a single-switch fabric.

Supported switches

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You cannot use EZSwitchSetup to manage a switch that has any of the following features enabled:

• Virtual Fabrics with non-default logical switches

• Access Gateway

• User-dened Admin Domains

You can, however, use the EZSwitchSetup wizard to discover these switches and set their IP addresses.

Language support for EZSwitchSetup

The EZSwitchSetup wizard and the Switch Manager interface can be displayed in the following languages:

• English (default)

• Brazilian Portuguese

• French

• German

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

•

Simplied Chinese

• Spanish

• Traditional Chinese

When you launch EZSwitchSetup, the interface detects the operating system and language environment and installs and displays the

appropriate 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 localization resources are not fully available in the user host environment, EZSwitchSetup uses the default language—English.

Regardless of the local language, the following is displayed in English:

• User input, which must consist of printable ASCII characters

• Switch-based information (such as the rmware version and switch name)

• Some globally accepted industry terms (such as SAN and HBA)

• The End-User License Agreement (EULA)

• System les (such as the summary le, setting le, and log le)

Language support for EZSwitchSetup

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Setting Up Your Switch

• Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard................................................................................................................................ 15

• Conguring the switch.....................................................................................................................................................................................30

• Zoning selection options................................................................................................................................................................................ 31

• Connecting devices and completing the setup.....................................................................................................................................35

Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard

You can run EZSwitchSetup from a computer you are currently using for SAN administration, or you can use a dierent computer that is

not part of the SAN, such as a laptop. In this chapter, the computer running EZSwitchSetup is called the setup computer. You can

download the EZSwitchSetup software and documentation les from MyBrocade for online installation.

To install and run the EZSwitchSetup, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to http://my.brocade.com/.

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2. Select downloads. Under Product Downloads, perform one of the following actions:

• Select Management Software from the Download by list.

or

• Type EZSwitch in the Search eld and click Search.

The list of EZSwitchSetup releases displays as shown in the following gure.

FIGURE 3 EZSwitchSetup Online download selection page

3. Click the desired EZSwitchSetup release and select the EZSwitchSetup link for the Linux or Windows system under that.

4. Review the Export Compliance information in the page that opens, enable the certication check box, and click Submit.

The Brocade End User License Agreement page displays.

5. Review the Brocade End User License Agreement information and click I Accept.

The EZSwitchSetup le in .zip format is downloaded automatically.

6. Save and extract the .zip le.

Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard

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7. Run the le as follows:

• On Windows: Navigate to the following path and run the install.exe le.

ezswitchsetup(version)\CDROM_Installers\Windows\Disk1\InstData\VM

• On Linux: Navigate to the following path and run the install.bin le.

ezswitchsetup(version)\CDROM_Installers\Linux\Disk1\InstData\VM

Installation will take a few minutes.

• On Windows: EZSwitchSetup starts automatically after it is installed. If it does not, refer to Launching the EZSwitchSetup

wizard on page 17 to launch the EZSwitchSetup wizard manually.

• On Linux: Follow the procedure in Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard on page 17 to launch the EZSwitchSetup

wizard.

NOTE

EZSwitchSetup 8.0.1 uses the executable le of EZSwitchSetup 8.0.0 for installation. However, EZSwitchSetup

8.1.0 has a distinct executable le for installation.

Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard

Perform the following, depending on your operating system:

• On Windows: EZSwitchSetup starts automatically after it is installed. If it does not, then from the Start menu, select Programs >

EZSwitchSetup > EZSwitchSetup.

• On Linux: EZSwitchSetup does not start automatically, so you must start it manually.

NOTE

The Linux installation requires root access.

The EZSwitchSetup wizard starts, as shown in the following gure.

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FIGURE 4 EZSwitchSetup introduction window

Connecting cables

1. Choose the method of connecting to your LAN.

You have the choice of using a serial connection or an Ethernet connection to your LAN to set the IP address for the switch. The

Ethernet connection is generally more convenient and preferred. Use the serial connection if it is not possible or not convenient

to connect the host on the same subnet as the switch.

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2. Click Next.

The Connect Cables window is displayed as shown in the following gure.

FIGURE 5 Connect Cables window (Ethernet version, without serial cable)

The following gure 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 connectors in the same place as in the following gure. Refer to the

hardware documentation to determine the correct placement of the serial and Ethernet connections.

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FIGURE 6 Cable connections

1. Brocade switch

2. Power cable

3. Ethernet hub or switch

4. Serial cable

5. Setup computer

6. Ethernet cable from hub to Brocade switch

7. Ethernet cable from setup computer to Ethernet hub or switch

3. Connect the power cord to the switch and plug it in to a power source.

The switch power and status LEDs rst display amber and then change to green, which usually takes from one to three minutes.

Refer to your switch hardware manual for the location of the LEDs.

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