Table Of Contents - Brocade Communications Systems FastIron Administration Manual

Contents
FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide
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Preface...................................................................................................................................11
Document conventions....................................................................................11
Text formatting conventions................................................................ 11
Command syntax conventions............................................................ 11
Notes, cautions, and warnings............................................................ 12
Brocade resources.......................................................................................... 13
Contacting Brocade Technical Support...........................................................13
Document feedback........................................................................................ 14
About This Document.............................................................................................................. 15
Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 15
What's new in this document ......................................................................... 15
How command information is presented in this guide.....................................16
Management Applications...................................................................................................... 19
Management port overview.............................................................................19
How the management port works....................................................... 19
CLI Commands for use with the management port.............................20
Web Management Interface............................................................................21
Management VRFs......................................................................................... 21
Source interface and management VRF compatibility........................ 22
Supported management applications..................................................22
Configuring a global management VRF.............................................. 24
Displaying management VRF information...........................................25
Basic Software Features..........................................................................................................29
Basic system parameter configuration............................................................ 29
Entering system administration information........................................ 29
SNMP parameter configuration...........................................................30
Displaying virtual routing interface statistics....................................... 33
User-login details in Syslog messages and traps............................... 33
Cancelling an outbound Telnet session.............................................. 34
Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4)..................................................... 35
Limitations........................................................................................... 37
Network Time Protocol (NTP) leap second ........................................37
How Brocade supports leap second handling for NTP....................... 37
NTP and SNTP................................................................................... 38
NTP server.......................................................................................... 38
NTP Client...........................................................................................39
NTP peer.............................................................................................39
NTP broadcast server......................................................................... 40
NTP broadcast client...........................................................................41
NTP associations................................................................................ 41
Synchronizing time..............................................................................42
Authentication..................................................................................... 42
VLAN and NTP....................................................................................43
Configuring NTP..................................................................................43
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