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Brocade Switch Command Guide

This document provides commands and examples for configuring zoning on Brocade switches. It lists commands for viewing switch configuration, ports, ISL links, licenses, and more. It also provides steps for creating aliases, zones, zone configurations, and an example zoning scenario connecting two hosts to a storage array through the Brocade switch. Key commands include switchshow, islshow, trunkshow, licenseshow, portcfgshow, cfgactvshow, zoneshow, psshow, fanshow, topologyshow, errorshow, supportshow, supportsave, configupload, alicreate, zonecreate, cfgcreate, cfgadd, cfgenable, and cfgsave.

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Brocade Switch Command Guide

This document provides commands and examples for configuring zoning on Brocade switches. It lists commands for viewing switch configuration, ports, ISL links, licenses, and more. It also provides steps for creating aliases, zones, zone configurations, and an example zoning scenario connecting two hosts to a storage array through the Brocade switch. Key commands include switchshow, islshow, trunkshow, licenseshow, portcfgshow, cfgactvshow, zoneshow, psshow, fanshow, topologyshow, errorshow, supportshow, supportsave, configupload, alicreate, zonecreate, cfgcreate, cfgadd, cfgenable, and cfgsave.

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Brocade Commands

Version –command is used to find whether it is a Cisco or Brocade switch.

No Virtual concept in brocade

For Brocade we use Webtools and connectrix manager

>switchshow --- shows the switch configuration

If the switch in fabric the mode will be Bridged

If the switch is not in fabric (single switch), the mode will be Native.

4 modes of ports – online, insync, offline, no module --- nothing is connected to the port.

Automatically the ports will change to F port and E port.

>switchshow|grep No_Light --- offline ports (i.e.) free ports.

To find here the node port have logged in which port onswitch

>switchshow|more grep 50:06:01:68….

To find the ISL details

>islshow -----

To see the trunk links

>trunkshow

To see the license

>licenseshow

To configure port
>portcfgshow

Here 2 types of configuration

1. Effective Configuration --- after activation of zonset


2. Defined Configuration ----- Running configuration

We need to make the defined config as effective config to save the changes.

>cfgactvshow|more ----shows the effective configuration

>zoneshow --- shows the zones in defined and effective config

>zone : <zone name> --shows the detail of the zone.

>psshow ---- powersupply status

>fanshow---- shows the fan status

>topologyshow ---- display how switches are connected in fabric

>portcfgspeed --- to change the port config speed

In brocade it can support max of 8Gpbs

In cisco it can support a speed of 16Gbps

Auto negotiate happens if the switch founds that the initiator has more speed than the switch has and it
adjust the speed of the initiator.

>errorshow --- shows all the errors in switch based on time – health check

>supportshow --- is used to see the log files

>supportsave --- is used to store the log files in the ftp path.

>configupload --- used to upload the configuration


Zoning in Brocade:

Create Alias:

>alicreate “aliasname”,”wwpn number”

Create Zone:

>zonecreate “zonename”, “aliasnameofhba”

Add members to the zone

>zoneadd “zonename”, “aliasnameofsan”

Create Zone configuration

>cfgcreate “configname”, “zonename”

Add zone to exisiting zone configuration

>cfgadd “configname”, “zonename”

>cfgenable <configname>

save the configuration

>cfgsave

Here the changes will be saved in the defined configuration, to make the changes happen in effective
configuration re-enable the effective configuration

⮚ Cfg upload
Zoning Scenario in Brocade :

Consider the below example.

SPA 06:OF
Brocade Switch

SPB
01:OC 01
02

>switchshow

Alias Creation

>alicreate “aliasname”, “wwpn number”

>alicreate “UNIX_HBA”, “01:OC”

>alicreate “CX_SPA”, “06:OF”

Zone Creation

>zonecreate “zonename”, “alinameofHBA; alinameofSPA”

Add members to zone

>zonecreate “zone1”, “UNIX_HBA;CX_SPA”

Create Zone configuration

>cfgcreate “cfgname”, “zonename” or

>cfgadd “cfgname”, “zonename” ---- existing zone configuration


>cfgcreate “cfg1”,”zone1”

>cfgsave ---- saves the configuration to the defined configuration

>cfgenable “cfgname” ---saves the configuration to the effective configuration.

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