Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Document
- Product Overview
- Installing a Brocade MLX Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in Brocade MLX routers
- Installing a Brocade MLX-4 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-8 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-16 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Brocade MLX-32 router shipping carton contents
- Unpacking your Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router in a rack
- Installing Brocade MLX-32 router modules
- Brocade MLX-32 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing power supplies in a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Connecting AC power
- Connecting DC power
- Removing Brocade MLX-32 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Installing a NetIron XMR Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in NetIron XMR routers
- Installing a NetIron XMR 4000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 8000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 16000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Unpacking a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router in a rack
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 modules
- NetIron XMR 32000 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 router power supplies
- Removing NetIron XMR 32000 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Using Brocade Structured Cabling Components
- Cable cinch overview
- mRJ21 procedures
- RJ45 procedures
- Cable cinch with one group of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with two groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with three groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with four groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with five groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with six groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with seven groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with eight groups of RJ45 cables
- Connecting a Router to a Network Device
- Managing Routers and Modules
- Managing the device
- Enabling and disabling a DC Power Source
- Disabling and re-enabling power to interface modules
- Monitoring I2C failures on management modules
- Displaying device status and temperature readings
- Displaying the Syslog configuration and static and dynamic buffers
- MP Presence from LP Detection (Headless Router Operation)
- Rolling Reboot
- Line Module Configuration Deletion in Interactive Boot Mode
- Managing switch fabric modules
- Managing the cooling system
- Managing interface modules
- Monitoring Link Status
- Using alarms to collect and monitor device status
- Displaying MR2 management module memory usage
- Enabling and disabling management module CPU usage calculations
- Displaying management module CPU usage
- Removing MAC address entries
- Simplified Upgrade
- Managing the device
- Maintenance and Field Replacement
- Hardware Specifications
- Regulatory Statements
- Caution and Danger Notices
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Managing interface modules
To display the system log, enter the show log command at any CLI level.
Brocade# show log
Syntax: show log
Temperature log reduction
Depending on settings and temperature readings, fan speeds are changed dynamically within the following ranges: low, med, med-hi, and
high. Fan speed changes are determined by temperature thresholds set for sensors on the management modules, interface modules and
switch fabric modules. When a temperature threshold is passed upward on any module, the fan speed changes to the assigned fan speed.
This occurs even if the temperature is within the threshold for the slower fan speed on other modules. In previous versions of the software,
a log message is sent whenever a temperature threshold is crossed on any module whether the fan speed is actually increased or not.
This can result in excessive log messages.
The default behavior is a for log message to be sent only when the fan speed is actually changed, which reduces the number of
messages. A CLI option allows you to log all messages or have a single log message sent when any temperature threshold is crossed.
Details about how to set temperature thresholds and default threshold values are described in the “Configuring the cooling system” on
page 223
Configuring temperature logging
The temp log-threshold command sets the temperature logging threshold to send a single message whenever any of the thresholds are
crossed.
Brocade(config) temp-log-threshold low
Syntax: temp-log-threshold [verbose | high | low | med | med-high]
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The verbose option generates logs whenever a temperature threshold is crossed. This is the operational mode of previous
versions of Multi-Service IronWare software and provides backward compatibility.
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The high option generates logs only when the high threshold is crossed.
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The low option generates logs whenever any threshold (low, medium, medium-high or high) is crossed.
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The med option generates logs only when the medium, medium-high, and high thresholds are crossed.
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The med-high option generates logs only when the medium-high and high thresholds are crossed. This is the default setting.
This output displays two instances of a module temperature exceeding the warning threshold.
Managing interface modules
Configuring interface module boot parameters
Ethernet interface modules contain independent copies of system software and boot after the management module boots. By default, the
following boot-related events occur:
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The router synchronizes, or prompts you to synchronize, the software image on the interface modules with the software on the
management module.
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Interface modules boot from a source specified by the management module (the default source is a primary image in the flash
memory on the interface module.)
You can make these changes: