Working With Web Tools: Recommendations; Opening A Telnet Or Ssh Client Window - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

Use the following procedure to display switches in the fabric.
1. Open Web Tools as described in
2. If the Fabric Tree is not expanded, click the plus sign (+) in the Fabric Tree to view all the
3. Click a switch in the Fabric Tree.

Working with Web Tools: recommendations

Brocades makes the following recommendations for working with Web Tools:
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Opening a Telnet or SSH client window

When you open a Telnet or SSH client window, it connects to the IP interface of the switch. You
cannot connect to a CP blade on a director switch through a Telnet or SSH client window opened
from Web Tools, even when the blade has an IP address and supports Telnet sessions. Refer to the
Fabric OS Command Reference for information about the Telnet commands.
Web Tools Administrator's Guide
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Switch Explorer for your current switch.
switches in the fabric.
A separate browser dialog box displays the selected switch. (If the launch switch is running a
Fabric OS version earlier than v5.0.1, the selected switch displays in the same browser
window.)
The graphic of the selected switch displays in Switch View. Additional switch information
displays in the Switch Events and Switch Information dialog box.
If you receive an error when saving changes in the Switch Administration window, note the
error messages, refresh the window, and make your changes again. Do not continue making
changes without refreshing the window and determining which changes were saved correctly.
In a fabric containing switches and directors running different versions of firmware, use the
switches or directors with the latest firmware versions to control the fabric.
If switches are accessed simultaneously from different connections (for example, Web Tools,
CLI, and API), changes from one connection might not be updated to the other, and some
modifications might be lost. Make sure that, when you connect with simultaneous multiple
connections, you do not overwrite the work of another connection.
Several tasks in Web Tools make fabric-level changes, such as the tasks in Zone
Administration. When executing fabric-level configuration tasks, wait until you have received
confirmation that the changes are implemented before executing any subsequent tasks. For a
large fabric, this can take several minutes.
Some data collection and processing operations in the iSCSI Gateway module might take a
long time to complete, especially in large fabrics or fabrics with large numbers of defined
Discovery Domains and Discovery Domain Sets. In most cases, progress bars are provided.
Allow the application a sufficient amount of time (30-40 seconds) to collect and display data
before taking any action or assuming the application is "hanging."
A maximum of five simultaneous HTTP sessions to any one switch is recommended. An HTTP
session is considered a Fabric Manager or Web Tools connection to the switch.

Working with Web Tools: recommendations

"Opening Web Tools" on page 9 and log in to the switch.
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