Viewing And Managing Lsan Fabrics; Viewing Ex-Ports - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Viewing EX-Ports

1. Select a logical switch from the Logical Switch drop-down list in the top-right corner of the
2. Click Configure > FCR.

Viewing and managing LSAN fabrics

The LSAN Fabric tab displays all the LSAN fabrics visible to your switch, in both a tabular and tree
form. (If FC-FC Routing is disabled, the table and tree nodes in this tab are empty and the tree
displays only the backbone switch.)
For more detailed information about a specific LSAN fabric, click a fabric name in the table and
then click View Details in the task bar. You can also click the fabric name in the tree on the left side
of the window.
When there is more than one router present in the backbone fabric with different backbone Fabric
IDs, the routers with the conflicting IDs are shown in a separate table on the LSAN Fabric tab.
To manage an LSAN fabric, select the fabric to manage and click Manage LSAN Fabric in the task
bar. A browser window is launched with the following URL:
For Brocade switches, this launches Web Tools. For non-Brocade fabrics, this launches the Element
Manager for that switch.

Viewing EX-Ports

The EX-Ports tab displays all of the EX-Ports on the switch, including configuration and status
information. The ports are sorted by slot number, and then by row number within each slot. IP
address information is displayed in IPv4 and IPv6 formats.
NOTE
To disable FC Routing, you must disable all EX/VEX ports. You cannot enable these ports until FC
Routing is enabled.
For more detailed information about a specific port, click a port name in the table, and then click
View Details in the task bar. You can also click the port name in the tree on the left side of the
window.
From the EX-Ports tab, you can perform the following port management tasks by selecting a port in
the table, and then clicking a task in the task bar:
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Switch Explorer window.
The selected switch displays in the Switch View.
The FC Routing module displays. If FC-FC Routing is disabled, a message to that effect displays
on all the tabs in the module.
http://ip-address-of-lsan-fabric-switch
Configure EX-Ports
Edit an EX-Ports configuration
Rename an EX-Port
Swap the Port Index of an EX-Port (described in
Enable or disable an EX-Port
Persistently enable or disable an EX-Port
"Port swapping index" on page 74)
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