Fcs Policy And Seed Switches; Backbone Chassis Discovery Requirements - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

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SAN discovery overview
NOTE
Professional Plus edition can discover up to 2,560 ports.
NOTE
Professional Plus edition can discover, but not manage the Backbone chassis.Use the device's
Element Manager, which can be launched from the Connectivity Map, to manage the device. This
device cannot be used as a Seed switch.

FCS policy and seed switches

The Management application requires that the seed switch is the primary Fabric Configuration
Server (FCS) switch at the time of discovery.
Setting time on the fabric will set the time on the primary FCS switch, which will then distribute the
changes to other switches.
When FCS Policy is defined, ConfigDownload is allowed only from the primary FCS switch, but
Management application does not check at the time of download that the switch is the primary FCS
Switch.
NOTE
Switches running in Access Gateway mode cannot be used as the seed switch.
NOTE
The Backbone Chassis cannot be used as seed switch to discover and manage edge fabrics. You
must discover a seed switch from each edge fabric to discover and manage the edge fabric.
NOTE
The Backbone Chassis can only discover and manage the backbone fabric.

Backbone Chassis discovery requirements

Table 13
Management application and whether or not the model can be discovered as a seed switch or only
as a member switch.
TABLE 13
Device
8-slot Backbone Chassis as
seed switch
8-slot Backbone Chassis as
member switch
4-slot Backbone Chassis as
seed switch
4-slot Backbone Chassis as
member switch
16 Gbps 8-slot Backbone
Chassis as seed switch
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details which Backbone Chassis models can be discovered by each version of the
Backbone Chassis discovery
Professional
No
Yes for discovery;
however, it cannot be
managed.
Yes
Yes
No
Professional Plus Enterprise
No Yes
Yes for discovery; Yes
however, it cannot be
managed.
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
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