Adding Switches To The Fabric Binding Membership List; Adding Detached Devices To The Fabric Binding Membership List - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

Adding switches to the fabric binding membership list

Once you have enabled Fabric Binding (refer to
add switches to the fabric binding membership list.
NOTE
Fabric Binding is only supported on Fabric OS 5.2 or later.
To add a switch to the fabric, complete the following steps.
1. Select Configure > Fabric Binding.
2. Select the switches you want to add to the selected fabrics' Fabric Membership List (FML) in
3. Click the right arrow to move the switches to the Membership List table.
4. Click OK on the Fabric Binding dialog box.

Adding detached devices to the fabric binding membership list

To add a switch that does not have a physical connection and is not discovered to the fabric,
complete the following steps.
1. Select Configure > Fabric Binding.
2. Click Add Detached Switch.
3. Enter the domain ID of the switch in the Domain ID field.
4. Enter the nodeworld wide name (WWN) of the switch in the Node WWN field.
5. Click OK on the Add Detached Switch dialog box.
6. Click OK on the Fabric Binding dialog box.
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The Fabric Binding dialog box displays
the Available Switches table.
The Fabric Binding dialog box displays
The Add Detached Switch dialog box displays.
You can copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) the Node WWN into the Node WWN field. It does not
matter if the copy source contains colons (11:22:33:44:55:66:77), only the numbers are
pasted (11223344556677) in the Node WWN field.
The added switch displays in the Membership List of Fabric_Name table on the Fabric Binding
dialog box.
Fabric Bining overview
"Enabling fabric binding"
(Figure 363).
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