Fcs Policy And Seed Switches; Discovering Fabrics - HP Brocade BladeSystem 4/12 User Manual

FCS policy and seed switches

The Management application requires that the seed switch is the primary Fabric Content Service
(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 a seed switch.

Discovering fabrics

NOTE
Fabric OS devices must be running Fabric OS 5.0 or later. M-EOS devices must be running M-EOS 9.6
or later.
NOTE
Only one copy of the application should be used to monitor and manage the same devices in a
subnet.
To discover specific IP addresses or subnets, complete the following steps.
1. Select Discover > Setup.
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The Discover Setup dialog box displays.
Fabric discovery overview
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