Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiv
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxvi
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxviii
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxix
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xl
How this document is organized
The document is divided into two sections; the first, “Standard Features,” contains the following
topics:
• Chapter 1, “Performing Basic Configuration Tasks,” gives a brief overview of Fabric OS,
explains the Fabric OS CLI Help feature, and provides typical connection and configuration
procedures.
• Chapter 2, “Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks,” provides advanced connection and
configuration procedures.
• Chapter 3, “Understanding Fibre Channel Services,” provides information on the Fibre Channel
services on Brocade switches.
• Chapter 4, “Routing Traffic,” provides information and procedures for using switch routing
features.
• Chapter 5, “Managing User Accounts,” provides information and procedures on managing
authentication and user accounts for the switch management channel.
• Chapter 6, “Configuring Standard Security Features,” provides procedures for basic password
and user account management.
• Chapter 7, “Configuring Advanced Security Features,” provides information and procedures for
configuring ACL policies for FC port and switch binding and managing the fabric-wide
consistency policy.
• Chapter 8, “Maintaining the Switch Configuration File,” provides procedures for maintaining
and backing up your switch configurations.
• Chapter 9, “Installing and Maintaining Firmware,” provides preparations and procedures for
performing firmware downloads.
• Chapter 10, “Managing Virtual Fabrics,” describes the concepts and provides procedures for
using Virtual Fabrics.