Setting Up Your Switch; In This Chapter; Installing And Running The Ezswitchsetup Wizard - Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Setting Up Your Switch

In this chapter

Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard

You can run EZSwitchSetup from a computer you are currently using for SAN administration, or you
can use a different computer that is not part of the SAN, such as a laptop. In this chapter, the
computer running EZSwitchSetup is called the setup computer.
The first step in setting up your switch is to install the EZSwitchSetup wizard, which is located on
the EZSwitchSetup installation CD.
1. Insert the EZSwitchSetup CD into the CD-ROM drive of your setup computer.
2. Install EZSwitchSetup following the onscreen directions.
3. Click Done on the last screen (shown in
EZSwitchSetup Administrator's Guide
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Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Powering up and connecting cables to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Setting the switch IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Configuring the switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Selecting zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Connecting devices and completing the setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The installer will autostart in about a minute.
Installation will take a few minutes after you click OK.
On Windows, EZSwitchSetup starts automatically after it is installed. If it does not, see
"Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard"
On Linux, follow the procedure
wizard.
Figure 3 on page 6) to exit the installer.
on page 6 to launch the wizard manually.
"Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard"
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on page 6 to launch the
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