Fcs Policy And Seed Switches - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

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SAN discovery overview
NOTE
Professional Plus edition can discover up to 4 fabrics.
NOTE
Professional Plus edition can discover, but not manage the Backbone chassis.Use the device's
Element Manager, which can be launched from the Connectivity Map, to manage the device. This
device cannot be used as a Seed switch.
NOTE
Professional edition can discover, but not manage M-EOS devices or the Backbone chassis. Use the
device's Element Manager, which can be launched from the Connectivity Map, to manage the
device. This device cannot be used as a Seed switch.

FCS policy and seed switches

The Management application requires that the seed switch is the primary Fabric Configuration
Server (FCS) switch at the time of discovery.
Setting time on the fabric will set the time on the primary FCS switch, which will then distribute the
changes to other switches.
When FCS Policy is defined, ConfigDownload is allowed only from the primary FCS switch, but
Management application does not check at the time of download that the switch is the primary FCS
Switch.
NOTE
Switches running in Access Gateway mode cannot be used as the seed switch.
NOTE
The Backbone Chassis cannot be used as seed switch to discover and manage edge fabrics. You
must discover a seed switch from each edge fabric to discover and manage the edge fabric.
NOTE
The Backbone Chassis can only discover and manage the backbone fabric.
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