What Is New In This Document; New Commands; Modified Commands - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Command Reference Manual

What is new in this document

The Fabric OS v6.4.0 Command Reference documents updates and corrections to support the
current Fabric OS release and the new Brocade FC8-64 port blade.

NEW COMMANDS

The following commands and associated man pages have been added since the publication of the
Fabric OS v6.3.1 release of this manual:
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MODIFIED COMMANDS

The following commands and associated man pages have been modified to support new
functionality:
Access Gateway
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Bottleneck Monitoring
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Diagnostics
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Fabric OS Command Reference
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fcipLedTest - LED test for the Brocade 7800/FX8-24 platforms (Diagnostics).
ceePortLedTest - Port LED test for the DCE platforms (Diagnostics).
ficonCfg - Configures FICON LIRR database (FICON).
fmConfig - Manages frame monitor configuration replacing deprecated performance
monitoring commands (Advance Performance Monitoring).
portBeacon - Configures and displays port beaconing mode (Diagnostics).
portCfgLossTov - Enables or disables debouncing of signal loss for front end ports.
secAuthCertificate - Configures and manages certificate database (Security).
thConfig - Configures Fabric Watch thresholds for SFP, Fabric and Security class monitoring
(Fabric Watch).
ag - New device WWN mapping command options.
portCfgShow - New display for "NPIV Max Login Limit" value.
portCfgNPIVPort - New operand to configure the maximum number of permitted logins per
NPIV port.
configure - New option to configure "NPIV Max Login Limit" per switch. You can no longer
configure this parameter per port with this command. Use portCfgNPIVPort instead.
bottleNeckMon - New operands to support enhanced bottleneck monitoring for congestion and
latency. Per switch configuration with support for exclusion of individual ports. The syntax of
this command has changed! Legacy usage is mapped to new syntax wherever possible,
however, results may deviate from what is expected. Use of new command syntax is therefore
highly recommended.
spinFab - Removal of previous port configuration restrictions. New operand to include F_Ports
connected to Brocade-branded HBAs.
portTest - Removal of previous port configuration restrictions.
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