Page 2 - DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL; Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated
DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Copyright © 2009-2011 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronPoint, IronShield, IronView, IronWare, JetCore, NetIron, SecureIron, ServerIron, StorageX, and TurboIron are registered trade...
Page 5 - Contents; About This Document
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide v 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Contents About This Document In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 7 - Chapter 5
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide vii 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Managing the FCoE configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 FCoE configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Clearing logins . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 8 - Chapter 7
viii Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL VLAN configuration and management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Enabling and disabling an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Configuring the MTU on an interface port...
Page 9 - Chapter 8
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide ix 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management . . . . . . . . . . 64 Enabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Disabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 10 - Chapter 9
x Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL LACP configuration and management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Enabling LACP on an CEE interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Enabling LACP on an interface in Layer 2 ...
Page 11 - Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xi 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL QoS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Rewriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 12 - Appendix A
xii Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL RMON overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 RMON configuration and management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Default RMON configurat...
Page 13 - Figures
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xiii 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Figures Figure 1 Multiple switch fabric configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Figure 2 CEE CLI command mode hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 15 - Tables
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xv 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Tables Table 1 Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Table 2 FCoE terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 17 - In this chapter
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xvii 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL About This Document In this chapter • How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii • Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 18 - Supported hardware and software
xviii Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Chapter 12, “Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication,” describes how to configure the 802.1x Port Authentication protocol. • Chapter 13, “Configuring IGMP,” describes how to configure IGMP snooping on ...
Page 19 - Document conventions; Text formatting; TABLE 1
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xix 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Document conventions This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this document. Text formatting The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as f...
Page 20 - NOTE; Key terms; Notice to the reader; Additional information
xx Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE A note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference to related information. ATTENTION An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or...
Page 21 - Brocade resources; Getting technical help
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide xxi 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Brocade resources To get up-to-the-minute information, go to http://my.brocade.com and register at no cost for a user ID and password. White papers, online demonstrations, and data sheets are available th...
Page 22 - Document feedback
xxii Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 2. Switch Serial Number The switch serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial number label, as illustrated below: The serial number label is located as follows: • Brocade 8000 —O...
Page 23 - Chapter; Introducing FCoE; FCoE overview; TABLE 2
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 1 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 1 Introducing FCoE In this chapter • FCoE terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 • FCoE overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 24 - FCoE hardware
2 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 FCoE overview 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL FCoE provides a method of encapsulating the Fibre Channel (FC) traffic over a physical Ethernet link. FCoE frames use a unique EtherType that enables FCoE traffic and standard Ethernet traff...
Page 25 - Layer 2 Ethernet overview; FIGURE 1; Layer 2 forwarding
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 3 53-1002163-02 Layer 2 Ethernet overview 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Layer 2 Ethernet overview The Brocade FCoE hardware contain CEE ports that support FCoE forwarding. The CEE ports are also backwards compatible and support classic Layer 2 Ethern...
Page 26 - VLAN tagging; Loop-free network environment
4 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Layer 2 Ethernet overview 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • If the Ethernet Frame Check Sequence (FCS) is incorrect, because the switch is in cut-through mode, a correctly formatted Ethernet frame is sent out with an incorrect FCS. • If...
Page 27 - Congestion control and queuing
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 5 53-1002163-02 Layer 2 Ethernet overview 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Using MSTP, you can create multiple loop-free active topologies on a single physical topology. These loop-free topologies are mapped to a set of configurable VLANs. This enables ...
Page 29 - Access control; Trunking
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 7 53-1002163-02 Layer 2 Ethernet overview 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL When setting the scheduling policy, each priority group that is using DWRR scheduling can be set to use a percentage of the total bandwidth by setting the PG_Percentage parameter...
Page 30 - Flow Control; FCoE Initialization Protocol; FIP discovery
8 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 FCoE Initialization Protocol 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE The Brocade software supports a maximum 24 LAG interfaces. Flow Control 802.3x Ethernet pause and Ethernet Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) are used to prevent dropped f...
Page 31 - FIP login; FIP logout
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 9 53-1002163-02 FCoE Initialization Protocol 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE In the fabric-provided MAC address format, VN_port MAC addresses are based on a 24-bit fabric-supplied value. The first three bytes of this value is referred to as the FC...
Page 32 - FCoE login; FCoE logout; Logincfg
10 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 FCoE Initialization Protocol 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL FCoE login The Brocade FCoE hardware FCoE login operates as follows: • ENodes can log in to the Brocade FCoE hardware using FCoE encapsulated, FC Extended Link Service (ELS) ...
Page 33 - Name server; FC zoning; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 11 53-1002163-02 FCoE Initialization Protocol 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Commit and abort—Defined logingroup changes can be aborted with no effect on existing sessions. The Brocade FCoE hardware does not apply the configurations to new sessions ...
Page 34 - FCoE queuing; Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FCoE
12 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 FCoE queuing 1 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE When transmitting an RSCN, zoning rules still apply for FCoE devices as the devices are treated as regular FC N_ports. • VF_port RSCN—An RSCN is generated to all registered members when...
Page 35 - Using the CEE CLI; CEE Command Line Interface
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 13 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 2 Using the CEE CLI In this chapter • Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 • CEE Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 36 - Saving your configuration changes; Saving configuration changes with the copy command; CEE CLI RBAC permissions; Accessing the CEE CLI through the console or Telnet; TABLE 3
14 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 CEE Command Line Interface 2 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE The CEE configuration is not affected by configUpload and configDownload commands entered in the Fabric OS shell. Saving your configuration changes Any configuration chang...
Page 37 - Accessing the CEE CLI from the Fabric OS shell; CEE CLI command modes; FIGURE 2
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 15 53-1002163-02 CEE Command Line Interface 2 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE While this example uses the admin role to log in to the switch, any role listed in the “CEE CLI RBAC permissions” section can be used. switch login: admin Password:switch:...
Page 39 - TABLE 4; TABLE 5
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 17 53-1002163-02 CEE Command Line Interface 2 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE Pressing Ctrl+Z or entering the end command in any mode returns you to privileged EXEC mode. Entering exit in any mode returns you to the previous mode. CEE CLI keyboard s...
Page 40 - Using the do command as a shortcut; Displaying CEE CLI commands and command syntax
18 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 CEE Command Line Interface 2 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE In EXEC and privileged EXEC modes, use the show history command to list the commands most recently entered. The switch retains the history of the last 1000 commands entere...
Page 41 - CEE CLI command completion; TABLE 6
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 19 53-1002163-02 CEE Command Line Interface 2 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL If the question mark (?) is typed within an incomplete keyword but the keyword matches several keywords, the CLI displays help for all the matching keywords. switch# show i? in...
Page 43 - Configuration management; CEE configuration guidelines and restrictions
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 21 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 3 Configuration management In this chapter • Configuration management tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 • Flash file management commands . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 45 - Archiving the startup configuration file; Flash file management commands; Debugging and logging commands; TABLE 7
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 23 53-1002163-02 Flash file management commands 3 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Archiving the startup configuration file This tasks allows you to archive the startup configuration to an archive folder on an FTP site. To archive the startup configuratio...
Page 46 - TABLE 8
24 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Debugging and logging commands 3 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL The tasks listed in Table 8 are performed from privileged EXEC mode. TABLE 8 Debugging and logging commands Task Command Display debugging information for CEE components. s...
Page 47 - FCoE Configuration Management; Managing the FCoE configuration; FCoE configuration guidelines and restrictions
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 25 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 4 FCoE Configuration Management In this chapter • Managing the FCoE configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 • Configuring the FCoE login information . . ....
Page 48 - Clearing logins; Displaying FCoE configuration-related information; Configuring the FCoE login information; Enabling or disabling login configuration management
26 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring the FCoE login information 4 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Clearing logins Perform the following task to clear logins. Displaying FCoE configuration-related information Perform the following tasks to display FCoE-related co...
Page 49 - Managing the current configuration transaction; Cleaning up login groups and VN_port mappings
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 27 53-1002163-02 Configuring the FCoE login information 4 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Managing the current configuration transaction NOTE The configuration changes created using the fcoelogingroup command are kept in a transaction buffer until you sa...
Page 50 - Saving the current FCoE configuration; Creating an FCoE login group
28 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Creating an FCoE login group 4 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Saving the current FCoE configuration Perform the following task to save the current FCoE configuration. Creating an FCoE login group The FCoE login group enables you to conf...
Page 51 - Modifying the FCoE login group device list; Renaming an FCoE login group
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 29 53-1002163-02 Creating an FCoE login group 4 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Modifying the FCoE login group device list Perform the following tasks to add or remove VN_port devices from the FCoE login group. Deleting an FCoE login group Perform the fo...
Page 53 - Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration; End to End FCoE using FC ISLs
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 31 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 5 Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration In this chapter • Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 • End to End FCoE usin...
Page 54 - FIGURE 3; FCoE Logical Port Numbering; FCoE port-to-front end TenGigabit port mapping
32 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 End to End FCoE using FC ISLs 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL The following diagram shows a deployment scenario where FCoE initiators are connected to FCoE and FC targets across multiple hops of FC ISLs. FIGURE 3 Deploying FCoE across ...
Page 55 - High availability; Hot plug; ATTENTION; TABLE 9
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 33 53-1002163-02 High availability 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL On an FCOE10-24 this mapping is as follows, assuming that the FCOE10-24 blade is in slot 4: • FCoE port 4/0 maps to TE port 4/0 • FCoE port 4/1 maps to TE port 4/1 • FCoE port 4/23 maps...
Page 56 - High availability reference
34 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 High availability 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Every configuration is either fully committed or not, but never “half-complete.” If you had started executing the copy startup running command, it will be resumed after failover before ...
Page 57 - Configuring the FCoE interfaces; Configuring the FCoE VLAN
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 35 53-1002163-02 Configuring the FCoE interfaces 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Configuring the FCoE interfaces FCoE maps are used to configure FCoE properties on interfaces. An FCoE map is a placeholder for an FCoE VLAN and a CEE map. You can assign ...
Page 58 - Assigning an FCoE map onto an interface
36 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring the FCoE VLAN 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL VLAN 1002 is reserved for FCoE VLAN. If VLAN 1002 is already assigned as a LAN VLAN, it is automatically recreated as the FCoE VLAN while creating the default fcoe-map. The FCoE...
Page 59 - Configuring DCBX
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 37 53-1002163-02 Configuring DCBX 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 2. Apply the current FCoE profile map to the interface using the fcoeport command. switch(conf-if-te-0/0)# fcoeport 3. Return to the privileged EXEC mode using the end command. switch(co...
Page 60 - Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol; Configuring VLAN membership
38 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a mechanism to detect and avoid loops in Ethernet networks by establishing a fixed path between all t...
Page 61 - CEE map configuration
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 39 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To configure VLAN membership, perform the following steps in global configuration mode. 1. Create the VLAN interfaces on the Brocade FCoE hardware using the CEE CLI. For details, se...
Page 62 - Defining a Priority Group Table map
40 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Strict Priority versus DWRR is derived directly from the PGID value. All PGIDs with prefix 15 receive the Strict Priority scheduling policy and all PGIDs in the range 0 through 7 re...
Page 63 - Defining a Priority-Table map
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 41 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 4. Define the CEE map for PGID 1. switch(config-ceemap)# priority-group-table 1 weight 50 5. Enter the copy command to save the running-config file to the startup-config file. switc...
Page 64 - CEE audit logs
42 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 CEE audit logs 5 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL CEE audit logs The CEE audit logs record all changes made by authorized users. This information is always present, irrespective of the configuring entity. Because redundant configuration i...
Page 67 - Configuring VLANs; Ingress VLAN filtering
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 45 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 6 Configuring VLANs In this chapter • VLAN overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 • Ingress VLAN filtering . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 68 - FIGURE 4
46 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Ingress VLAN filtering 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Admit VLAN tagged and untagged frames—All tagged and untagged frames would be processed as follows: - All untagged frames are classified into native VLANs. - All frames egressing...
Page 69 - VLAN configuration guidelines and restrictions
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 47 53-1002163-02 VLAN configuration guidelines and restrictions 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Additionally, there are important facts you should know about the VLAN FDB: • The VLAN FDB contains information that helps determine the forwarding of an ar...
Page 70 - VLAN configuration and management; Enabling and disabling an interface port; Configuring the MTU on an interface port; Creating a VLAN interface
48 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 VLAN configuration and management 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL VLAN configuration and management NOTE You need to enter either the copy running-config startup-config command or the write memory command to save your configuration cha...
Page 71 - Enabling STP on a VLAN; Disabling STP on a VLAN; Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 49 53-1002163-02 VLAN configuration and management 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To create a VLAN interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode. 2. Enter ...
Page 72 - Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port; Configuring an interface port as an access interface; Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface
50 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 VLAN configuration and management 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port To configure the interface as a Layer 2 switch port, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Ent...
Page 73 - Disabling a VLAN on a trunk interface
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 51 53-1002163-02 VLAN configuration and management 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL switch(conf-if-te-0/19)# switchport mode trunk 5. Specify whether all, one, or none of the VLAN interfaces are allowed to transmit and receive through the CEE interface....
Page 74 - Disabling a VLAN on a converged interface; Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules
52 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 6. Enter the switchport converged allowed vlan add vlan_id command to give access to individual VLANs. switch(conf-if-te-0/1)# switchport converged allowe...
Page 75 - Configuring a VLAN classifier rule; Configuring MAC address-based VLAN classifier rules; Creating a VLAN classifier group and adding rules
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53 53-1002163-02 Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) and FCoE cannot be manually configured in VLAN classifier rules. They are part of the fcoeport interface configura...
Page 76 - Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port; Clearing VLAN counter statistics; Displaying VLAN information; Configuring the MAC address table
54 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring the MAC address table 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port To associate a VLAN classifier group with an interface port, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC m...
Page 77 - Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses; Adding static addresses to the MAC address table
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 55 53-1002163-02 Configuring the MAC address table 6 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses You can set the length of time that a dynamic entry remains in the MAC address table after the entry is used or ...
Page 80 - Configuring STP
58 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 STP overview 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Disabled—The interface is not participating in spanning tree because of a shutdown port, no link on the port, or no spanning tree instance running on the port. A port participating in span...
Page 81 - RSTP overview
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 59 53-1002163-02 RSTP overview 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL This does not apply to ports connected to workstations or PCs; these ports remain in the forwarding state. 5. Enter the copy command to save the running-config file to the startup-config fi...
Page 82 - Configuring RSTP
60 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 RSTP overview 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL With RSTP, the port roles for the new interface states are also different. RSTP differentiates explicitly between the state of the port and the role it plays in the topology. RSTP uses the ...
Page 83 - MSTP overview
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 61 53-1002163-02 MSTP overview 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL switch(conf-rstp)# hello-time 5 10. Set the method for flushing mac-addresses in FDB, either according to the IEEE standard or the propriety standard. For details, see “Flushing MAC address...
Page 84 - Configuring MSTP
62 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 MSTP overview 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE Brocade supports 15 MSTP instances and one MSTP region. MSTP introduces a hierarchical way of managing switch domains using regions. Switches that share common MSTP configuration attri...
Page 85 - STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 63 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL For more information on MSTP, see “STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management” on page 64. STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines...
Page 86 - STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management
64 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Table 17 lists the switch defaults that apply only to MSTP configurations. Table 18 lists the switch defaults for the 10-Gigabit Ethernet CEE interface-sp...
Page 87 - Shutting down STP, RSTP, or MSTP globally; Specifying the bridge priority
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 65 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL switch(config)# protocol spanning-tree rstp Disabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP NOTE Using the no protocol spanning-tree command deletes the context and all the ...
Page 88 - Specifying the bridge forward delay; Specifying the bridge maximum aging time
66 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode. 2. Enter the protocol command to enable STP, RSTP, or MSTP. switch(config)# p...
Page 89 - Enabling the error disable timeout timer; Specifying the error disable timeout interval; Specifying the port-channel path cost
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 67 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To specify the bridge maximum aging time, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global ...
Page 90 - Specifying the bridge hello time (STP and RSTP); Specifying the transmit hold count (RSTP and MSTP)
68 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE For the chosen path-cost method to be activated, it should either be configured prior to creation of all port-channels or the existing port-channels ...
Page 91 - Mapping a VLAN to an MSTP instance
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 69 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Enabling Cisco interoperability (MSTP) In MSTP mode, use this command to enable or disable the ability of the Brocade FCoE hardware to interoperate with c...
Page 92 - Specifying a name for an MSTP region; Specifying a revision number for an MSTP configuration
70 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Specifying the maximum number of hops for a BPDU (MSTP) In MSTP mode, use this command to configure the maximum number of hops for a BPDU in an MSTP regio...
Page 93 - Clearing spanning tree counters; Clearing spanning tree-detected protocols
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 71 53-1002163-02 STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Flushing MAC addresses (RSTP and MSTP) For RSTP and MSTP, use this command to flush the MAC addresses from the VLAN filtering database (FDB). The VLAN FDB...
Page 94 - Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports; Enabling automatic edge detection; Configuring the path cost
72 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To restart the protocol migration process, perform the following tasks from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the appropriate form of the clear command ...
Page 95 - Enabling a port (interface) as an edge port; Enabling the guard root
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 73 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To configure the path cost for spanning tree calculations on the CEE interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the c...
Page 96 - Specifying the MSTP hello time; Specifying restrictions for an MSTP instance
74 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Guard root protects the root bridge from malicious attacks and unintentional misconfigurations where a bridge device that is not intended to be the r...
Page 97 - Specifying a link type; Specifying the port priority
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 75 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 4. Enter the spanning-tree command to specify the restrictions for an MSTP instance on a CEE interface. switch(conf-if-te-0/1)# spanning-tree instanc...
Page 98 - Restricting the port from becoming a root port; Restricting the topology change notification; Enabling spanning tree
76 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To specify the port priority on the CEE interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to ...
Page 99 - Disabling spanning tree
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 77 53-1002163-02 Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports 7 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To enable spanning tree on the CEE interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to acces...
Page 101 - Configuring Link Aggregation; Link Aggregation Group configuration
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 79 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 8 Configuring Link Aggregation In this chapter • Link aggregation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 • LACP configuration guidelines and restr...
Page 103 - FIGURE 5
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 81 53-1002163-02 Link aggregation overview 8 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL The Brocade 8000 switch interoperates with all of the major Layer 2/Layer 3 aggregation routers including Foundry Networks, Cisco Systems, and Force10 Networks. FIGURE 5 Configu...
Page 104 - Link Aggregation Control Protocol; Dynamic link aggregation
82 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Link aggregation overview 8 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Link Aggregation Control Protocol Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is an IEEE 802.3ad standards-based protocol that allows two partner systems to dynamically negotiate a...
Page 105 - LAG distribution process; LACP configuration guidelines and restrictions; LACP configuration and management; Enabling LACP on an CEE interface
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 83 53-1002163-02 LACP configuration guidelines and restrictions 8 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL LAG distribution process The LAG aggregator is associated with the collection and distribution of Ethernet frames. The collection and distribution process i...
Page 106 - Enabling LACP on an interface in Layer 2 mode; Configuring the LACP system priority
84 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 LACP configuration and management 8 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To enable LACP on a CEE interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode. 2....
Page 107 - Clearing LACP counter statistics on a LAG; Clearing LACP counter statistics on all LAG groups; Displaying LACP information; LACP troubleshooting tips
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 85 53-1002163-02 LACP troubleshooting tips 8 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To configure the LACP timeout period on a CEE interface, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configur...
Page 109 - Configuring LLDP
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 87 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 9 Configuring LLDP In this chapter • LLDP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 • Layer 2 topology mapping . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 110 - Layer 2 topology mapping
88 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Layer 2 topology mapping 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Layer 2 topology mapping The LLDP protocol lets network management systems accurately discover and model Layer 2 network topologies. As LLDP devices transmit and receive advertis...
Page 111 - DCBX overview
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 89 53-1002163-02 DCBX overview 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • IEEE 802.1 organizational TLV set. This set provides information to detect mismatched settings between local and remote devices. A trap or event can be reported once a mismatch is detecte...
Page 113 - DCBX interaction with other vendor devices; LLDP configuration guidelines and restrictions; Default LLDP configuration
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 91 53-1002163-02 DCBX interaction with other vendor devices 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL PFC is defined by a one-byte bitmap. Each bit position stands for a user priority. If a bit is set, the flow control is enabled in both directions (Rx and Tx). ...
Page 114 - LLDP configuration and management; Enabling LLDP globally; Disabling and resetting LLDP globally; Configuring LLDP global command options
92 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL LLDP configuration and management NOTE You need to enter either the copy running-config startup-config command or the write memory command to save your configuration cha...
Page 115 - Specifying a user description for LLDP
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 93 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Specifying a system name for the Brocade FCoE hardware The global system name for LLDP is useful for differentiating between switches. By default, the “host-name” from t...
Page 117 - Configuring the advertisement of LLDP DCBX-related TLVs; Configuring FCoE priority bits
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 95 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL To advertise the optional LLDP TLVs, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter the configure terminal command to access global configuration mode. ...
Page 118 - Configuring LLDP profiles
96 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 4. Advertise the TLV. switch(conf-lldp)# advertise dcbx-fcoe-app-tlv Configuring iSCSI priority bits The iSCSI priority bit setting is a bitmap setting where each bit po...
Page 119 - Configuring the iSCSI profile
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 97 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 9. Advertise the LLDP DCBX-related TLVs. switch(conf-lldp-profile-UK_LLDP_IT)# advertise dot1-tlv switch(conf-lldp-profile-UK_LLDP_IT)# advertise dot3-tlv switch(conf-ll...
Page 120 - Configuring LLDP interface-level command options; Clearing LLDP-related information
98 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 LLDP configuration and management 9 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Configuring LLDP interface-level command options Only one LLDP profile can be assigned to an interface. If you do not use the lldp profile option at the interface level,...
Page 123 - Configuring ACLs
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 101 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 10 Configuring ACLs In this chapter • ACL overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 • Default ACL configuration . . . . . . . ....
Page 124 - Default ACL configuration; Creating a standard MAC ACL and adding rules
102 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Default ACL configuration 10 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL MAC ACLs are supported on the following interface types: • Physical interfaces • Logical interfaces (LAGs) • VLANs Default ACL configuration Table 22 lists the default ACL con...
Page 125 - Creating an extended MAC ACL and adding rules; Modifying MAC ACL rules
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 103 53-1002163-02 ACL configuration and management 10 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 3. Enter the deny command to create a rule in the MAC ACL to drop traffic with the source MAC address. switch(conf-macl-std)# deny 0022.3333.4444 count 4. Enter the per...
Page 126 - Removing a MAC ACL
104 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 ACL configuration and management 10 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE Using the permit and deny keywords, you can create many different rules. The examples in this section provide the basic knowledge needed to modify MAC ACLs. NOTE T...
Page 127 - Applying a MAC ACL to a CEE interface; Applying a MAC ACL to a VLAN interface
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 105 53-1002163-02 ACL configuration and management 10 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Applying a MAC ACL to a CEE interface Ensure that the ACL that you want to apply exists and is configured to filter traffic in the manner that you need for this CEE int...
Page 129 - Configuring QoS
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 107 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 11 Configuring QoS In this chapter • QoS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 • Rewriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 130 - Rewriting; User-priority mapping; Default user-priority mappings for untrusted interfaces
108 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Rewriting 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Scheduling—When multiple queues are active and contending for output on a common physical port the scheduling algorithm selects the order the queues are serviced. Scheduling algorithms incl...
Page 131 - Configuring the QoS trust mode
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 109 53-1002163-02 Queueing 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Table 23 presents the Layer 2 QoS untrusted user priority generation table. NOTE Non-tagged Ethernet frames are interpreted as incoming CoS value of 0 (zero). You can override the default user...
Page 133 - Traffic class mapping; Unicast traffic
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 111 53-1002163-02 Queueing 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 3. Activate or apply changes made to the CoS-to-CoS mutation QoS map name. In this example ‘test’ is used. switch(conf-if-te-0/2)# qos map cos-mutation test 4. Specify the trust mode for incom...
Page 135 - Congestion control; Tail drop
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 113 53-1002163-02 Congestion control 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 4. Enter the copy command to save the running-config file to the startup-config file. switch(config)# do copy running-config startup-config Verifying a mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class T...
Page 136 - FIGURE 7; Changing the Tail Drop threshold; Ethernet pause
114 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Congestion control 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL consume the full buffer memory. Thresholds can also be used to bound the maximum queueing delay for each traffic class. Additionally if the sum of the thresholds for a port is set be...
Page 137 - Enabling Ethernet Pause; Ethernet Priority Flow Control
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 115 53-1002163-02 Congestion control 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL time, once it completes transmission of any frame in progress. You can use this feature to reduce Ethernet frame losses by using a standardized mechanism. However the Pause mechanism...
Page 138 - Multicast rate limiting; Creating a receive queue multicast rate-limit
116 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Multicast rate limiting 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Both ends of a link must be configured identically for Ethernet Pause or Ethernet Priority Flow Control because they are incompatible. Enabling an Ethernet PFC To enable Ether...
Page 139 - Scheduling; Strict priority scheduling; FIGURE 8; Deficit weighted round robin scheduling; FIGURE 9
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 117 53-1002163-02 Scheduling 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 3. Enter the copy command to save the running-config file to the startup-config file. switch(config)# do copy running-config startup-config Scheduling Scheduling arbitrates among multiple qu...
Page 140 - Traffic class scheduling policy; Scheduling the QoS queue
118 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Scheduling 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR) is an improved version of WRR. DWRR remembers the excess used when a queue goes over its bandwidth allocation and reduces the queue's bandwidth allocation...
Page 141 - Multicast queue scheduling; Scheduling the QoS multicast queue
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 119 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 2. Specify the schedule to use and the traffic class to bandwidth mapping. switch(config)# qos queue scheduler strict-priority 4 dwrr 10 20 30 40 3. Enter the copy command to save...
Page 143 - Defining a priority group table; Defining a priority-table map
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 121 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL CEE Priority Table defines each CoS mapping to Priority Group, and completes PFC configuration. There are eight rows in the CEE Priority Table. Table 30 details the default CEE Pr...
Page 144 - Verifying the CEE maps
122 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 CEE map configuration 11 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Applying a CEE provisioning map to an interface To apply a CEE provisioning map, perform the following steps from privileged EXEC mode. 1. Enter global configuration mode. switch#...
Page 145 - x configuration guidelines and restrictions
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 123 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 12 Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication In this chapter • 802.1x protocol overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 • 802.1x configuration guidel...
Page 146 - x authentication configuration tasks; Interface-specific administrative tasks for 802.1x; Configuring 802.1x on specific interface ports
124 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 802.1x authentication configuration tasks 12 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 802.1x authentication configuration tasks The tasks in this section describe the common 802.1x operations that you will need to perform. For a complete descrip...
Page 147 - Configuring 802.1x timeouts on specific interface ports; Disabling 802.1x on specific interface ports
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 125 53-1002163-02 Interface-specific administrative tasks for 802.1x 12 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 2. Use the interface command to select the interface port to modify. switch(config)# interface tengigabitethernet 1/12 3. Use the dot1x authentication...
Page 149 - Configuring IGMP; Active IGMP snooping
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 127 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 13 Configuring IGMP In this chapter • About IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 • Configuring IGMP . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 150 - Multicast routing
128 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Configuring IGMP 13 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Multicast routing Multicast routers use IGMP to learn which groups have members on each of their attached physical networks. A multicast router keeps a list of multicast group membersh...
Page 151 - Configuring IGMP snooping querier; Configuring IGMP snooping mrouter
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 129 53-1002163-02 Configuring IGMP snooping querier 13 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 9. Optional: Activate the IGMP querier functionality with additional features. Configuring IGMP snooping querier If your multicast traffic is not routed because Protoc...
Page 152 - Monitoring IGMP
130 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 Monitoring IGMP 13 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL NOTE Use the no ip igmp snooping mrouter command to return to the default setting. 3. Return to global configuration mode. switch(conf-if-vl-25)# exit 4. Configure the mrouter timeout v...
Page 153 - Configuring RMON; Default RMON configuration
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 131 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Chapter 14 Configuring RMON In this chapter • RMON overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 • RMON configuration and management . . . . . ...
Page 154 - Configuring RMON settings; Configuring RMON events
132 Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 53-1002163-02 RMON configuration and management 14 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL • Broadcast packets • Multicast packets • CRC errors To collect RMON group statistics on an interface and enable collection history, perform the following steps from p...
Page 155 - Configuring RMON history collection
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 133 53-1002163-02 RMON configuration and management 14 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL 2. Configure the RMON event. switch(config)# rmon event 27 description Rising_Threshold log owner john_smith trap syslog 3. Enter the copy command to save the running-...
Page 157 - Appendix
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 135 53-1002163-02 Appendix A Brocade 8000 Replacement It is important that the new Brocade 8000 has the identical setup to the original Brocade 8000. This process updates the firmware and configuration files on the new Brocade 8000 to match the origi...
Page 163 - Index; Symbols
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide 141 53-1002163-02 DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Index Symbols Numerics 802.1x LAG , 123 overview , 123 timeouts , 125 A Access Control Lists See ACL access interface, configuring , 50 access mode , 45 , 50 ACL configuration guidelines and restrictions ...
