Topology Discovery; Displaying Topology Discovery Status; Enabling Topology Discovery; Disabling Topology Discovery - Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 Administrator's Manual

Topology discovery

The topology discovery feature can be displayed, enabled, and disabled; it is disabled by default.
The commands mstdEnable and mstdDisable are allowed only in AD0 and AD255.

Displaying topology discovery status

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the mstdReadConfig command.

Enabling topology discovery

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the appropriate following command based on how you want to enable discovery:
Example of enabling discovery

Disabling topology discovery

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the appropriate following command based on how you want to disable discovery:
3. Enter y to disable the Topology Discovery feature.
Example of disabling discovery
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switch:admin> mstdreadconfig
*MS Topology Discovery is Enabled.
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For the local switch, enter the mstdEnable command.
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For the entire fabric, enter the mstdEnable all command.
switch:admin> mstdenable
Request to enable MS Topology Discovery Service in progress....
*MS Topology Discovery enabled locally.
switch:admin> mstdenable ALL
Request to enable MS Topology Discovery Service in progress....
*MS Topology Discovery enabled locally.
*MS Topology Discovery Enable Operation Complete!!
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For the local switch, enter the mstdDisable command.
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For the entire fabric, enter the mstdDisable all command.
A warning displays that all NID entries might be cleared.
NOTE
Disabling discovery of management server topology might erase all node ID entries.
switch:admin> mstddisable
This may erase all NID entries. Are you sure?
Request to disable MS Topology Discovery Service in progress....

Topology discovery

(yes, y, no, n): [no] y
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