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About this Document

In this chapter

How this document is organized

This manual provides troubleshooting information on Brocade host bus adapters (HBAs) and
converged network adapters (CNAs). It is organized to help you find the information that you want
as quickly and easily as possible.
The document contains the following components:
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Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide
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How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
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Supported CNA hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
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Supported HBA hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
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What's new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
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Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
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Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
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Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
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Providing details for support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
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Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Chapter 1, "Introduction to Troubleshooting"
troubleshooting adapter problems, as well as tips for gathering problem information. A
checklist is also provided to verify that required procedures have been followed during
installation.
Chapter 2, "Isolating Problems"
procedures to diagnose and recover from these problems.
Chapter 3, "Tools for Collecting Data"
available through the Host Connectivity Manager (HCM), Brocade Command Line Utility (BCU),
Fabric OS commands, and host system to help you isolate and resolve adapter-related
problems.
Chapter 4, "Performance Optimization"
performance on your host system.
Appendix A, "Adapter BIOS and Event Message Reference"
messages generated by adapter drivers.
provides an introduction and approach to
provides information on common adapter problems and
provides a summary of diagnostic and monitoring tools
contains guidelines for optimizing adapter
contains details on all event
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