Brocade Fabric OS Documentation Addendum v6.1.2_cee (53-1001216-01, June 2009)

6 Fabric OS Documentation Addendum
53-1001216-01
Chapter 18, Administering Extended Fabrics
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Under the heading “Top Talker monitors” on page 409, change the note to the following:
NOTE
Initial stabilization is the time taken by a flow to reach the maximum bandwidth. This time
varies depending on the number of flows in the fabric and other factors. The incubation period
can be up to 14 seconds in the Brocade DCX and up to 82 seconds in the Brocade 4100,
4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 7500, 7500E, 7600, 8000, and 48000.
Under the heading “Top Talker monitors” on page 409, change the second sentence after the note
to the following:
Top Talker monitors are not supported on the Brocade 200 switch or on the CEE ports of the
Brocade 8000 switch.
Under the heading “Displaying the top n bandwidth-using flows on an F_Port” on page 411, in
step 2 change the description of the n parameter to the following:
Replace the third bullet on page 414 with the following two bullets:
• The Brocade 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 7500, 7500E, 7600, 8000, 48000, and
Brocade DCX platforms support 12 filter-based monitors for trunks.
• For the Brocade 8000, trunk monitoring is supported only on the FC ports and not on the
CEE ports.
Chapter 18, Administering Extended Fabrics
Under the heading “Extended Fabrics licensing” on page 419, add the following note:
NOTE
Extended Fabrics is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
On page 422, change the note at the bottom of the page to the following:
NOTE
The 10 Gbps FC10-6 blade has two port groups of three ports each. For extended ISLs, all
buffers available to a group are used to support one port at up to 100 km.
n The number of top talking flows to display, between 1 and 32. The maximum
number of flows that are actually displayed depends on the platform:
32 For Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 8000, and FC8-xx port blades
16 For Brocade 4100, 4900, 5000, 7600, and FC4-xx port blades
4 For Brocade 7500 and 7500E