VM-Aware » Fibre Switches http://www.vm-aware.com Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation! Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:28:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 Useful Brocade Switch Telnet Commands http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/04/useful-brocade-switch-telnet-commands/ http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/04/useful-brocade-switch-telnet-commands/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:06:01 +0000 Paul Shannon http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/04/16/useful-brocade-switch-telnet-commands/ Anybody using Brocade Fibre Switches on a regular basis will notice that sometimes the web interface can sometimes be, shall we say funky!

It sometimes show defragmented fabric in the web browser, but there is no reason for it etc.

Here’s an overview of some useful commands that you can execute from the Telnet command line:

Login

switchshow

zonecreate “sw1zone1″, “1,12; 1,14; 1,15″

cfgcreate “sw1cfg1″, “sw1zone1″

cfgenable “sw1cfg1″

reboot

Zones Zone has two memory areas
Effective Zone
Config Zone

zoneshow show the current zones

zonehelp help on the various zone commands

zoneadd add switch ports to a particular Zone

zoneremove remove ports from a zone

cfgsave to save changes you make to the Zone Configuration

cfgenable make the saved config changes effective immediately

cfgshow display the current Zones

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