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Fabric OS Command Reference 1
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Chapter
1
Using Fabric OS Commands
In this chapter
•Using the command line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
•Understanding Role-Based Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
•Understanding Virtual Fabric restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
•Understanding Admin Domain restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
•Determining RBAC permissions for a specific command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using the command line interface
The Fabric OS command line interface (CLI), accessed via Telnet, SSH, or serial console, provides
full management capability on a Brocade switch. The Fabric OS CLI enables an administrator to
monitor and manage individual switches, ports, and entire fabrics from a standard workstation.
Selected commands must be issued from a secure Telnet or SSH session.
Access is controlled by a switch-level password for each access level. The commands available
through the CLI are based on the user’s login role and the license keys used to unlock certain
features.
The Fabric OS CLI provides the following capabilities:
• Access to the full range of Fabric OS features, given the license keys installed.
• Assistance with configuration, monitoring, dynamic provisioning, and daily management of
every aspect of storage area networks (SANs).
• A deeper view of the tasks involved in managing a Brocade SAN.
• Identification, isolation, and management of SAN events across every switch in the fabric.
• Management of Brocade licenses.
The documentation for each command includes a synopsis of its syntax, a description of command
use, and a set of examples. The same information can be accessed by issuing the help command
followed by the command name on a Brocade switch or director. This command displays the help
page for the specified command. For example, to display the help page for portCfg, enter:
switch:admin> help portCfg