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About This Document

In this chapter

How this document is organized

The document contains the following chapters:
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Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
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How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
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Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
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What's new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
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Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
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Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
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Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
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Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Chapter 1, "Introduction to Troubleshooting,"
Fabric OS CLI Help feature, and provides typical connection and configuration procedures.
Chapter 2, "General Issues,"
Chapter 3, "Connections Issues,"
authentication and user accounts for the switch management channel.
Chapter 4, "Configuration Issues,"
policies for FC port and switch binding and managing the fabric-wide consistency policy.
Chapter 5, "FirmwareDownload Errors,"
your switch configurations.
Chapter 6, "Security Issues,"
management.
Chapter 7, "ISL Trunking Issues,"
administrative domains.
Chapter 8, "Zone Issues,"
downloads, as well troubleshooting information.
Chapter 9, "FCIP Issues,"
Brocade DCX models. Because these models have CP blades and port blades, they require
procedures that are not relevant to the Brocade fixed-port models.
Chapter 10, "FICON Fabric Issues,"
48000 and Brocade DCX models. Because these models have CP blades and port blades, they
require procedures that are not relevant to the Brocade fixed-port models.
gives a brief overview of Fabric OS, explains the
provides information on licensing, hardware, and syslog issues.
provides information and procedures on managing
provides information and procedures for configuring ACL
provides procedures for maintaining and backing up
provides procedures for basic password and user account
describes the concepts and provides procedures for using
provides preparations and procedures for performing firmware
provides information and procedures specific to Brocade 48000 and
provides information and procedures specific to Brocade
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