Reference Guide

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
•What is new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
•CLI usage conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxviii
•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Using Fabric OS Commands,” explains how to use the command line interface to
manage a Brocade SAN and Brocade switches.
• Chapter 2, “Fabric OS Commands,” provides command information.
• Chapter 3, “Primary FCS Commands,” summarizes the subset of commands available when an
FCS policy is enabled.
• Appendix A, “Command Availability,” explains the Role-Based Access Control, as well as Virtual
Fabric and Admin Domain restriction checks used to validate commands.
Supported hardware and software
This document includes updated information specific to new functionality introduced in Fabric OS
v7.2.0.
Table 1 lists the hardware platforms supported in the Fabric OS v7.2.0 release. ASIC names
may be used in this document to distinguish between types of switches that share certain
characteristics.