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Brocade Communications Systems CNA, HBA 425 User's Manual

1. TABLE 3 FCoE driver operating system support Operating System x86 IA64 IEM64T AMD64 SPARC Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Requires SP2 plus Hotfix 932755 and KB943545 Windows Server 2008 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Linux SuSE Enterprise Server SLES Yes Yes Yes Yes No 10 1 and 10 2 Linux SuSE Enterprise Server SLES Yes Yes Yes Yes No 11 0 Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4 6 4 7 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5 2 5 3 Yes Yes Yes Yes No Solaris 10 51 Yes No Yes Yes Yes VMware ESX 3 5 U3 U4 Yes No Yes Yes No 1 FCoE driver only The Networking driver is not supported on Solaris 10 5 Supported features Some features are available only in specific port nodes These features are identified in Table 4 TABLE 4 Port node specific features Features FCoE port Link Layer LL Ethernet port Physical port Define name Yes No Yes Port configuration Yes No No Persistent binding Yes No Yes Virtual port configuration Yes No No Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Statistics Fabric statistics IOC Eth IOC statistics VLAN Port statistics CEE statistics statistics Eth statistics statistics FCP IM statistics Diagnostics Fibre Channel diagnostics No Yes FC SP authentication Yes No No Enable port Yes No Yes Beaconing port Yes Yes No VLAN configuration No Yes No 2 OS specific features OS specific features
2. Component Statistics monitored Local host Port HBA e Port HBA port Port Fabric OC QoS Authentication CNA Port CEE port Port CEE FCP IM Module Ethernet port EthIOC VLAN Eth FCoE port Fabric IOC Logical port and base port e Logical port Virtual port Logical port Virtual port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 53 1001256 01 5 54 Performance monitoring Polling frequency rate The faster the polling rate the more quickly the HCM GUI receives indications from the host However faster polling rates consume more of your system s CPU and network resources and can therefore slow the system Controlling the polling frequency rate To control port statistics polling do one of the following from any of the Statistics dialog boxes 1 Click the Start Polling box to manually poll the port statistics 2 Type the polling rate in the Polling Frequency in Seconds text box The range is between five and 3600 seconds The default is five seconds Click the Stop Polling box to stop port statistics polling Check the Keep Running Data check box to see the trend Resetting statistics 1 Click the Reset button on any of the Statistics dialog boxes A warning dialog displays HCM Message x Q This will reset all counters listed here b Do you want to continue Yes No FIGURE21 Reset Statistics warning 2 Click Yes All of the statistics are reset to O B
3. 0 0 0 cee eee 199 Appendix D Glossary and acronyms Index Viii Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Figures Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11 Figure 12 Figure 13 Figure 14 Figure 15 Figure 16 Figure 17 Figure 18 Figure 19 Figure 20 Figure 21 Figure 22 Figure 23 Figure 24 Figure 25 Figure 26 Figure 27 Figure 28 Figure 29 HCM Login dialog box xx ies Ghee RC ca e ae ta arate GG 11 Change HCM Password dialog box 0 2 cece eee 13 Change HCM Agent password dialog DOX 2 2 0 cece eee 14 Host Connectivity Manager main window lesse elles 16 Setup for Discovery dialog DOX 2 1 ke tees 18 Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration host level dialog box 22 Basic Port Configuration dialog box Windows Linux and VmWare 25 Boot over SAN dialog bOoX llle ne 33 Boot Code Image Upload dialog Dox 6 2 ce kee eee 35 Virtual Port Creation dialog DOX 1 kee eee 36 Configure HCM Logging Levels dialog box 0 00 aa 37 Advanced Port Configuration dialog Dox 2 6 eee ects 38 Configure Names dialog box 0 cece tee 42 Duplicated Names dialog box 0 0c ees 47 VLAN Configuration dialog bOX 2 kee eee 49 Add VLAN dialog DOX censu RR RR adda NG AD dae beg be eos baa BS 49 VLAN Con
4. Card Type The HBA card type for example FC Hardware Path The hardware path of the HBA Serial The serial number of the HBA Temperature The temperature of the HBA both in Celsius and Fahrenheit Chip Revision The revision level of the chip Driver Parameters Driver Name Driver Version The name of the host adapter driver The version level of the host adapter driver Firmware Parameters Firmware Version The version level of the firmware BIOS Version The version level of the BIOS Flash Status The flash status for example good PCI Registers Vendor ID The identifier of the PCI Register s vendor Device ID The device ID of the PCI Register Subsystem ID The ID of the PCI subsystem Subsystem Vendor ID Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The ID of the PCI subsystem vendor 107 A HBA Properties panel HBA only Field Description Current of Lanes The number of PCI lanes in Gbps each way between the PCI slot and the adapter PCle Generation The number of times the PCI Register is generated Initial Negotiated of Lanes The set number of PCI lanes that were initially negotiated OEM VPD Information OEM The name of the original equipment manufacturer Part The OEM part number of the HBA EC level The engineering change level FRU The OEM FRU number of the HBA Serial The OEM se
5. Virtual Node WAN 20 00 00 05 1E 53 08 C0 Symbolic Name Name Description OK Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 10 Virtual Port Creation dialog box Optional Provide a symbolic name for the virtual port Optional Provide an alias name for the virtual port By creating an alias you can assign a familiar name to a device or group multiple devices into a single name This can simplify cumbersome data entry and allows an intuitive naming structure Optional Enter descriptive information about the virtual port into the Description text box Click OK to apply the changes and close the window Deleting a Virtual Port Select a virtual port from the device tree Select Configure gt Virtual Port gt Delete from the main menu OR Right click the virtual port and select Virtual Port gt Delete from the list A warning message displays asking for confirmation Click OK to continue The Virtual Port Deletion dialog box displays Click the check box that corresponds to one or multiple virtual ports you want to delete and click the Delete Selected button If you want to delete all virtual ports click the Delete All button NOTE You can also select a base port from the device tree and delete it the same way you delete a virtual port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HCM Logging levels HCM Logging levels You can set the log level for the following modules e Agent communication
6. Advanced Port Parameters Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 121 A 122 Port Properties panel HBA only Field Queue Depth Description The number of I O operations that can be run in parallel on a device Interrupt Control Coalesce Indicates whether interrupt control is on or off Interrupt Control Latency Sets the interrupt control latency value Interrupt Control Delay Sets the interrupt control delay value Operating Parameters Beacon State Indicates whether beaconing is on or off Link Beacon State Indicates whether link beaconing is on or off MPIO Mode State Indicates whether multipathing mode is on or off Path Time Out The value between O to 60 that specifies the time out session Note you can only enable or edit the path time out when MPIO is disabled Logging Level The port logging level Values include Log Critical Log Error Log Warning and Log Info Persistent Binding Indicates whether persistent binding is on or off Target Rate Limit Indicates whether target rate limiting is on or off Default Rate Limit Select the target rate limit from the list Options include 1 Gbps the default 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps FC SP Parameters Authentication Indicates whether FC SP authentication is on or off Status The status of FC SP authentication Algorithm The configured authentication algorithm Group The
7. Operands level Sets the log level of the Ethernet driver port_id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port for which you will set the log level Options include Critical Error Warning or Info If no level is set the default setting is used which is Error Examples bcu ethlog level lt port_id gt Log level is Info bcu ethlog level port id Warning Log level set to Warning See Also None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 171 53 1001256 01 B ethport ethport 172 Synopsis Description Operands Examples Displays or clears statistical information on the Ethernet port An Ethernet port is a logical Ethernet that uses CNA s physical port as a transport bcu ethport stats lt port_id gt bcu ethport statsclr lt port_id gt Displays or clears Ethernet port statistics stats port_id statsclr port_id Displays Ethernet port statistics Clears Ethernet port statistics bcu ethport stats 1 0 Ethernet port statistics txf0 ucast octets txf0 ucast txf0 ucast vlan txf0 mcast octets txf0 mcast txf0 mcast vlan txf0 bcast octets txf0 bcast txf0 bcast vlan txf0 errors txf0 filter vlan txf0 filter mac sa rxf0 ucast octets rxf0 ucast rxf0 ucast vlan rxf0 mcast octets rxf0 mcast rxf0 mcast vlan rxf0 bcast octets rxf0 bcast rxf0 bcast vlan rxf0 frame drops netif queue stop netif queue wakeup tso4 tso6 CSO ETE tcpcsum_offload udpcsum_offload csum_help csum_help_err
8. show port id bcu auth stats port id bcu auth statsclr sport id Refer to auth on page 154 for details about these commands Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 23 53 1001256 01 4 Buffer credits Buffer credits Buffer to buffer credit flow control is implemented to limit the amount of data a port sends based on the number and size of the frames sent from that port This scheme allows Fibre Channel to be self throttling thereby allowing it to establish a reliable connection without the need to accommodate dropped frames due to congestion Buffer credit limits between each device and the fabric are communicated at the time of fabric login One buffer credit allows a device to send one frame of data typically 1 or 2 KB Buffer credits cannot be configured on an adapter The default BB Credit is 1 The baseline for the calculation is one credit per kilometer at 2 Gbps This yields the following values for 10 km e 5 credits per port at 1 Gbps e 10 credits per port at 2 Gbps e 20 credits per port at 4 Gbps e 40 credits per port at 8 Gbps Refer to the Extended Fabrics concepts and planning section of the Fabric OS Administrator s Guide for detailed information about buffer credits Basic port configuration 24 For each port you can configure the following parameters using the Basic Port Configuration dialog box the Brocade Command Line utility BCU or both Table 7 lists the features and configura
9. 6 Displaying test log details 4 Click the check box that corresponds to the protocol test you are running Select a port target and logical port from the lists and click Add to add it to the test table 6 Define how many times the test runs by specifying the test cycle number The default test cycle number is 1 7 Click Start to run the test Displaying test log details 66 1 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the Host Connectivity Manager 2 Run any diagnostic test 3 Select and double click a row of the test results in the bottom pane The Test Log details listed in Table 16 displays See Figure 27 and Figure 28 for examples of test log detail TABLE 16 Test log details Field Description Time The date and time the test was run Test The name of the test Status The status of the test for example executing or pending Configuration The name of the test component and its corresponding value For example Adapter world wide name Data pattern e Frame count Port world wide name Result The test result for example test started or test complete Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Displaying test log details 6 Time Tue Oct 07 17 26 15 PDT 2008 Test EchoTest Status EXECUTING Name Value Port 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B7 Configuration Adapter 20 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B6 Logical port 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B7 Remote port 21 00 00 20 37 B3 8D F8 Result executing the t
10. Data Pattern hexadecimal Default value is A5A5A5A5 Beaconing is a continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN Beaconing can occur either on the port or on one or both sides of the link known as end to end beaconing Link end to end beaconing provides a mechanism to start beaconing on both the adapter side and the switch side Configuring beaconing using the GUI You can configure beaconing from an HBA port an FCoE port or an Ethernet port 1 Select an HBA port an FCoE port or an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure Beacon from the Host Connectivity Manager 3 Click either the Beacon Port check box or the Beacon Link check box to enable the feature Configuring beaconing using the BCU Enter the following command to blink the appropriate port LED for physical identification bcu diag beacon port id on off t lt secs gt where duration Blinks the local port for the specified number of seconds The default is O which means infinite blinking Refer to diag on page 165 for details about this command Enter the following command to blink the appropriate link for physical identification bcu fcdiag linkbeacon port id on off Refer to fcdiag on page 175 for details about this command Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 69 53 1001256 01 6 SFP Management SFP Management The Port SFP dialog box enables you to display the properties that are associated with a se
11. Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate e Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring 126 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Remote Port Properties panel HBA and CNA A Remote Port Properties panel HBA and CNA The Remote Port Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with the remote port Opening the properties panel 1 From the device tree select a remote port target or initiator 2 Click the Remote Port Properties tab in the right pane NOTE If it is a target port there are two tabs in the right pane Properties and LUNs Fields and components Field Fibre Channel Properties Description Port WWN Node WWN The world wide name of the device s port The world wide name of the device Symbolic Name The symbolic name associated with the remote port Name The name associated with the device Role Target Rate Limiting Enforced The role of the device target or initiator The status of traffic rate limiting either on or off QoS Priority The traffic priority high medium or low for a given source and destination traffic flow assigned by the Fabric operating system FOS By default all flows are marked as medium Bus The unique identifying number for each PCI bus assigned during
12. Specitying Path Time Out using the GUI 1 Select Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 2 Type a value in the Path Time Out text field Its value range is O to 60 A timeout value of 30 is the default 3 Click OK to close the window Specitying Path Time Out using the BCU Enter the following command to set the MPIO mode to on or off If the MPIO mode is off you can specify an optional path time out value TOV in seconds 1 to 60 A timeout value of 30 is the default bcu fcpim pathtov lt port_id gt tov Refer to fcpim on page 177 for details about this command Target rate limiting HBA only NOTE The target rate limiting feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA The target rate limiting feature is used to minimize congestion at the adapter port caused by a slow drain device operating in the fabric at a slower speed A remote port s operating speed is determined from the fabric Traffic destined to the remote port is limited to its current operating speed Enabling and disabling rate limiting on the adapter side using the GUI Target rate limiting is supported only when the adapter port is connected to the fabric Therefore target rate limiting is not supported when the port is directly connected with another device 1 Select Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager
13. The number of successful firmware O underrun operations IO overrun good The number of successful firmware I O overrun operations Aborted IO requests The number of aborted 1 0 requests IO timeouts The number of times an I O timed out IO selection timeouts The number of I O selection timeout occurrences IO protocol errors The number of I O protocol errors IO SBC 3 protection errors Number of SCSI block data protection errors for SBC 3 SCSI Block Command 3 IO aborted by TM requests The number of I Os that were aborted because of target mode requests IO retry for SQ error recovery The number of 1 0 retries for sequence level error recovery Delayed freeing of IO resources The number of times I O resource freeing was delayed IO with non good SCSI status Host IO abort requests Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of I Os with SCSI status of non good The number of times the host aborted I O requests 103 A FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Field Description IO comp with unknown tags The number of I Os with unknown tags IO implicitly aborted The number of times an I O was implicitly aborted IO aborted due to TM commands The number of I Os that were aborted because of target mode commands Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Sta
14. fctraceroute sport id lt rpwwn gt Ipwwn bcu fcdiag fcecho port id rpwwn Ipwwn bcu fcdiag linkbeacon port id on off bcu fcdiag scsitest port id lt rpwwn gt Ipwwn Fibre Channel diagnostic tests evaluate the integrity of Fibre Channel components fcping port id rpwwn Ipwwn fctraceroute port id rpwwn Ipwwn fcecho port id rpwwn lpwwn linkbeacon port id on off scsitest port id rpwwn Ipwwn Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Determines the basic connectivity between two Fibre Channel network points and monitors and measures network latency Specifies the ID of the port to which you want to issue a ping command Specifies the remote port world wide name to which you want to issue a ping command Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument The base port is specified as 0 otherwise the port is a virtual port Reports on a SAN path including node hops and latency data Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to run the fctraceroute command Specifies the remote port world wide name Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument The base port is specified as 0 otherwise the port is a virtual port Sends an FC Echo Extended Link Services ELS request to a remote port Specifies the ID of the port from which you want to run the fcecho com
15. port id query Queries the CEE port information port_id Specifies the ID of the adapter CNA stats Displays the CEE port statistics port id statistics statsclr Clears the CEE port statistics port_id cee query port id CEE status Active LLDP Attributes Time to Live 120 Chassis ID 00 05 1e 53 ea a6 Port ID Te 0 3 Port Desc System Name System Desc System Cap BRIDGE ROUTER Operational CEE Map Priority Group Table Weight 0 PFC Disabled Weight 80 PFC Disabled Weight 20 PFC Enabled Weight 0 PFC Enabled Weight 0 PFC Enabled Weight 0 PFC Disabled Weight 0 PFC Disabled Weight 0 PFC Disabled e ITNA Bb WN H o oS e Specifies the ID of the converged network adapter for which you will print the Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 See Also Priority Table CoS O L2 3 4 56 7 PGID 2 2 X l1 2 2 2 FCOE Priority Table 2 bcu cee stats 1 0 CEE Statistics LLDP Frames LLDP Frames LLDP Frames LLDP Frames LLDP Frames Transmitted Aged Out Discarded with Error Received LLDP TLVs Discarded LLDP TLVs Unrecognized DCBX TLVs Unrecognized DCBX Negotiation Failed DCBX Remote cfg Changed DCBX TLVs Received DCBX TLVs Invalid CEE HW Config Changed CEE Status Down CEE Status Up CEE recvd invalid cfg DCBX s
16. BP aa bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 aa bb cc dd ee ff 00 02 645500 IM VP O1 bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 O1 bb cc dd ee ff 00 00 645501 IM IP VP O2 bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 02 bb cc dd ee ff 00 00 645502 IM VP O4 bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 04 bb cc dd ee ff 00 00 645503 IM bcu lport query hba5 port0 State Online FC address 0c0100 Port wwn aa bb co dd ee fftaa Node wwn co ddscorae ffltoctoat Symbolic name FC4 Role fcpim ipfc bcu lport query hba5 port0 1 State Online FC address 0c0101 Port wwn 01 bb cc dd ee 00 Node wwn 01 bb cc dd ee 00 bcu lport statsclr hba5 port0 lport stats cleared None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 bb ff Ol bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 01 00 183 B pbind pbind Synopsis Description Operands See Also 184 Enables target port world wide name WWN binding to a persistent target ID for an operating system OS stack bcu pbind list port id lt pwwn gt bcu pbind clear sport id Queries the list of mappings or clears existing persistent binding settings NOTE The pbind command is only supported on the Windows platform Jist port id clear port id None Queries the list of mappings from the persistent binding module Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Clears existing persistent binding settings Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to clear existing persistent binding s
17. From the Ethernet port level select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click an Ethernet port and select VLAN Configuration from the list The VLAN Configuration dialog displays 3 Click Remove on the VLAN Configuration dialog Figure 15 A warning dialog displays HCM Message A The vlan will be removed This will take affect after you click Ok or Apply on Configuration Dialog Are you sure you want to continue OK Cancel FIGURE20 Remove VLAN dialog box 4 Click OK to remove the VLAN from the configuration Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 51 53 1001256 01 4 52 VLAN configuration Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Chapter Monitoring 5 In this chapter PEHORBOOSE MONRONAE ac saa aro ataca uid Rie n qon i RR iua a Nb a des 53 Master LOS os aqua BN RROA ERRE EE ORERE ORA C 55 E EE A E eee eet L eur ERR SO Ed 57 Performance monitoring The Host Connectivity Manager HCM Port Statistics window enables you to monitor the performance of the CNA and the traffic between the CNA and the LUNs You can use the information to isolate and troubleshoot areas that impact application performance The components listed in Table 9 display statistics when the FCoE port node is selected Refer to HCM Dialog Boxes on page 75 for a description of each statistics field TABLE 9 Statistics monitored by component
18. HAL offline exception events A HAL Delete f w Responses The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete f w responses HAL Delete IOC down Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL Delete IOC down events HAL Delete Exception Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete exception events HAL Delete Pend f w Responses The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete pend f w responses HAL Delete Pend IOC downs The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete pending IOC downs HAL Delete Pend Exceptions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete pending exceptions HAL Off Pending f w Responses HAL Off Pending Deletes The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL off pending f w responses The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL off pending deletes HAL Off Pending IOC downs The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL off pending IOC downs HAL Off Pending Exceptions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL off pending exceptions HAL IOC Down Offline Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL IOC down offline events HAL IOC Down Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL IOC down delete events HAL IOC down Online Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL IOC down online events HAL IOC Down Exception Events Using the d
19. MTU N_Port A full duplex Ethernet MAC supporting at least 2 5KB jumbo frames and implementing extensions to avoid Ethernet frame loss resulting from congestion Logical unit number An address for an individual disk drive or virtual partition volume within a storage device A process that makes a LUN available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts Media Access Control Management Information Base Maximum Transfer Unit A node port a Fibre Channel host or storage port in a fabric or point to point connection that is assumed to be incapable of arbitrated loop operations Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Glossary and acronyms D NL_Port A port within a node that is capable of arbitrated loop operations NPIV N_Port ID Virtualization NPIV enables a single Fibre Channel protocol port to appear as multiple distinct ports providing separate port identification within the fabric for each operating system image behind the port as if each operating system image had its own unique physical port Persistent binding A Fibre Channel FC host bus adapter HBA feature that enables you to permanently assign a system SCSI target ID to a specific FC device even though the device s ID on the FC loop may be different each time the FC loop initializes PFC Priority Flow Control Port A generic reference to an N_Port NL_Port F_Port FL_Port E_Port or other type of Fibre Channel port Po
20. Select the Boot Device Port WWN row in the table then click the up and down arrows to move the row up or down in the table The host will attempt to boot from the first LUN in the table and then move on to succeeding LUNs e You can delete a row using the Delete button under the arrows e Click the Boot Device Port WWN and LUN fields to physically enter boot LUNs to the table These LUNs must be visible to the adapter to be accessible as boot LUNs 9 Click OK The Vendor Info LUN Capacity and Accessible status that correspond to the selected boot device and LUN display automatically Enabling and disabling Boot over SAN using the BCU Boot commands enable you to query a boot configuration and set or disable the boot over SAN configuration Enter the following command to enable or disable Boot over SAN bcu boot blunZone c lt cfg gt p port wwn r lt rport_wwn gt I lun id lun bcu boot upload adapter id image file a Refer to boot HBA only on page 159 for details about this command Boot code image upload HBA only You can upload a boot code image on the local host or on an HBA The boot over SAN feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA Follow these steps to upload the latest boot code using either the HCM GUI or the BCU NOTE On Solaris systems the Boot Code Image Upload menu is disabled if the host does not have a Fibre Channel HBA card or if the driver version is l
21. State Machine PHYSM physm sync lost The number of sync loss events in the Physical Port State Machine PHYSM Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Field prim_unknown IOC Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Description The number of unknown primitive events that occurred on the firmware port proto_err_cnt The number of I O protocol errors psp_errors The number of primitive sequence protocol errors rectov_timedout_cnt The number of Receiver Time Out events seq cnt frm drop cnt The number of sequential frame drops seqr fail cnt The number of sequential failures sig lost The number of times a signal was lost on the firmware port sig regained The number of times a signal was regained on the firmware port snsm hwsm fails snsm hwsm success The number of Hardware State Machine HWSM failures for the firmware port speed negotiation state machine SNSM The number of Hardware State Machine HWSM successes for the firmware port speed negotiation state machine SNSM snsm_hwsm_wdtov The Hardware State Machine HWSM timeout value for the firmware port speed negotiation state machine SNSM sync_lost sync_regained The number of times loss of sync on the firmware port has occurred The number of synchronizations that were regained on the firmware port sync_to tgt_aborted_io The number of times sync timeout on the fir
22. The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays Enable the Target Rate Limiting feature by clicking the corresponding check box Select the default rate limit from the list Options include 1 Gbps 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps the default is 2 Gbps 4 Click OK to close the window Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 31 53 1001256 01 4 Boot over SAN HBA only Enabling and disabling rate limiting on the adapter side using the BCU Enter the following command to enable or disable rate limiting on the adapter side NOTE You must first enter the bcu port disable port id command followed by the bcu port enable port id command before the bcu ratelim enable or bcu ratelim disable commands take effect bcu ratelim enable sport id s default speed bcu ratelim disable sport id bcu ratelim query port id bcu ratelim defspeed port id lt 1 2 4 gt Refer to ratelim HBA only on page 191 for details about this command Boot over SAN HBA only NOTE The Boot over SAN feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA The boot over SAN feature allows you to target remote boot devices LUNs on SAN storage arrays from which to boot the host system When the host s operating system and adapter driver are installed on the remote device the adapter BIOS and user configurable boot instructions stored in adapter flash memory allow the host to boot from the device NOTE Various o
23. The V Port WWN is a required argument 197 B 198 vport Example See Also statsclr port_id vpwwn Clears the statistics that are associated with the V Port If you do not specify the port s world wide name the statistics listed are for the base V Port WWN is a required argument bcu vport query hba5 port0 State Online FC address 0c0101 Port Node Symbo wwn aa bb cc dd ee ff aa bb wwn cc dd cc aa ff cc aa ff lic name Test VPort FC4 Role fcpim bcu vport stats hba5_port0 fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc fdisc logo logo logo logo logo logo no np fab o fab o fab c sent 15 accepts 7 retries 8 timeouts 2 rsp err 18 acc bad 9 rejects 3 unknown 0 alloc waits 6 sent 12 accepts 8 rejects 4 rsp err 4 unknown rsp 6 alloc waits 6 dar oT ffline 5 nline 8 leanup 9 bcu vport statsclr hba5 port0 vport None stats cleared Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Clears the statistics for the virtual port by its world wide name The V Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Appendix HCM Troubleshooting C This section discusses known problems with HCM usability features and the workaround HCM tab navigation Problem Workaround There are various places within the Host Connectivity Manager HCM where you cannot navigate without usin
24. Vendor OUI 00 05 1E Vendor PN BRCD 8519 7D 2 5 Vendor Rev Options 0012 Loss_of_Sig Tx_Disable BR Max 0 BR Min 0 Serial No H11QET9 Date Code 020429 Temperature 50 Centigrade Current 10634 mAmps Voltage 3164 8 mVolts RX Power 199 6 uWatts Tx Power 235 2 uWatts Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 See Also bcu diag tempshow 1 temperature 43 131800 C bcu diag beacon 1 1 on Port beacon turned on To turn on the first LED with green color bcu diag ledtest 1 0 1 on green led turned on fcdiag Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 diag 167 B drvconf drvconf 168 Synopsis Description See Also Sets the basic parameters for the driver to function properly Note The drvconf commands are supported on Windows platforms only bcu drvconf key key name val lt value gt Changes the values for basic Windows registry entry parameters NOTE You can directly change these values by editing the Windows registry entries for these values or you can use the drvconf commands for the same purpose Possible key name and value ranges are as follows key bfa lun queue depth value range 50 default 32 key ioc auto recover value range 0 1 default 1 key rport del timeout value range 750 default 90 key reqq_size value range 64 8192 default 512 key rspq size value range 64 8192 default 512
25. ausser RR RREEGARER ZTRRERGGXRRAXARERGO 2 e FCOE protocols sUpDOIIEd reor ng cULR ORILPRDUKEG URP E RU ER ERI tekni 4 FCoE overview Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE leverages Ethernet enhancements called Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE to transport encapsulated Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet Ethernet is the physical layer over which the encapsulated FC frames are transported One of the barriers to using Ethernet as the basis for a converged network has been the limited bandwidth that Ethernet has historically provided However with 10 Gbps Ethernet the available bandwidth now offers the potential to consolidate all the traffic types over the same link Unlike Fibre Channel Ethernet is not a peer to peer protocol The mechanism used to discover new ports MAC address assignments and FC logins and logouts is called the FCoE Initialization Protocol FIP DCB exchange protocol DCB Exchange DCBX protocol is used between data center bridging DCB devices such as a converged network adapter CNA and a FCoE switch to exchange configuration with directly connected peers NOTE When DCBX protocol is used any other LLDP implementation must be disabled on the host systems Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 1 53 1001256 01 1 Enhanced Ethernet features Drivers Three types of adapter drivers are provided in installation packages e Storage driver This is a unified driver that provides Fibre Channel frame transpor
26. disable commands take effect Enter the following commands to enable or disable QoS support on the HBA side bcu qos enable port id bcu qos disable port id bcu qos query port id bcu qos stats sport id bcu qos statsclr sport id Refer to qos HBA only on page 190 for details about this command MPIO HBA only Multipathing I O MPIO uses redundant physical path components such as adapters cables and switches to create logical paths between the server and the storage device In the event that one or more of these components fails causing the path to fail MPIO uses an alternate path for I O so that applications can still access their data Specitying the MPIO using the GUI 1 Select Configure Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 2 Click the MPIO Mode Enable check box 3 Click OK to close the window Specitying MPIO using the BCU Enter the following command to set the MPIO mode to on or off If the MPIO mode is off you can specify an optional path time out value TOV in seconds 1 to 60 A timeout value of 10 is the default bcu fcpim pathtov lt port_id gt tov Refer to fcpim on page 177 for details about this command Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Basic port configuration 4 Path Time Out You can enable or edit the Path Time Out field only when MPIO is disabled
27. name1 name 2 e No special characters are allowed except for an underscore or hyphen e The maximum length of the name is 15 characters e The maximum length of the description is 80 characters Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 41 53 1001256 01 4 42 Name configuration Editing the name fields Only the name the world wide name WWN and the description fields are editable Depending on the component the following occurs when you edit the name fields e Name changes on the adapter and ports are sent to the agent and stored in the properties file e Name changes on remote ports and virtual ports are sent to the properties file local to the HCM application but are not sent to the agent 1 Select an HBA an HBA port a Virtual Port a CNA or a CEE port from the device tree 2 Select Configure Names from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure Names The Configure Names dialog box displays all the discovered and detached undiscovered names e Configure Names Display Current Host Name v Description Detached VWN 420 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 Discovered 410 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 Discovered 410 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 Discovered EFCM Format Y Import Export Fix Duplicates FIGURE 13 Configure Names dialog box OK Cancel Apply Help 3 Select a row and edit the name the WWN and the descriptio
28. system initialization Target ID The identifier of the target device Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 127 A SFP Properties panel SFP Properties panel The SFP Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected small form factor pluggable SFP transceiver 128 Opening the properties panel 1 Select a port in the device tree 2 Click the SFP or SFP tab in the right pane NOTE Only Brocade branded SFPs are supported with the 8 Gbps FC HBAs and 10 Gbps CNAs The 4 Gbps SFP bundled with the Brocade 415 or 425 is referred to as SFP the 8 Gbps SFP bundled with the Brocade 815 or 825 is referred to as SFP and the 10 Gbps SFP bundled with the BR 1010 and BR 1020 is referred to as XFP Fields and components Field Description Port Technology SFP Supported The name of the supported SFP Connector Type The type of port connector for example LC SC or Cu copper cable Transceiver The type of transceiver for example XFP or GBIC Media The type of media for the transceiver for example single mode Speed The port speed For the HBA the options are 1 Gbps 2 Gbps 4 Gbps or 8 Gbps For the 10 Gbps CNA the only speed option is auto negotiate Extended Information Identifier The identifier for the extended link Encoding Displays how the extended link is encoded for example 8B10B Baud Rat
29. 01 The Fibre Channel Class of Service that specifies a priority value 81 A CEE Port Properties panel CNA only CEE Port Properties panel CNA only The Port Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected CEE port Opening the properties panel 1 Select a CEE port in the device tree 2 Click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Port Parameters Description Port The port number O or 1 Port WWN The port s world wide name Node WWN The CNA s world wide name Physical Port Type The port type CEE Name The name that is manually assigned to the port Local Port MAC The local port s media access control MAC address Media The type of media for example 10G sw CEE State The state of the converged ethernet whether it is online or offline FCoE VLAN Properties VLAN ID The VLAN identifier VLAN Name The VLAN name Using the property panel Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Configuring the port speed using the GUI e Specifying the maximum frame size using the GUI Specifying the MPIO using the GUI Specifying Path Time Out using the GUI e Configuring the HCM logging level using the GUI e Configuring the queue depth using the GUI Enabling and disabling persistent binding using the GUI Enabling an
30. 10 Some features are available only in specific OS environments The features are shown in Table 5 TABLE 5 OS specific features Features Windows Linux Solaris VMWare Storage NPIV support Yes Yes No Yes Ethernet VLAN support Yes Yes No Yes Ethernet Receive Side Scaling RSS Yes No No No Ethernet Header Data Split HDS Yes No No No Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Chapter Getting Started with HCM Software 3 In this chapter LEGE TUI NAMEN oi kana EET ITI T 11 Changing an HCM application password aan 13 e DIScaeBly oi Chait Seeds SEGUE SES CL SEU RAT ERR RN FRETR ED STERNE ES 18 roten ETC AA ER 19 HCM software launch The following procedures describe how to launch the HCM application in Windows Linux and Solaris Launching the application on Windows platforms e Launching the application on Linux platforms e Launching the application on Solaris platforms Launching the application on Windows platforms After installing the HCM software locate Brocade HCM on the Windows platform by selecting Start gt Programs gt BROCADE_FCHBA OR Click the desktop icon to launch the application The following figure shows the screen that appears when HCM software is first launched Userld Administrator Password _ Remember password CJ Skip Login Dialog Login Cancel Help FIGURE 1 HCM Login dialog box The factory d
31. 3 Configure the following parameters on the Port Security Authentication tab a Select the Enable Authentication check box to enable or disable the authentication policy If authentication is enabled the port attempts to negotiate with the switch If the switch does not participate in the authentication process the port skips the authentication process b Type and retype the secret The maximum length of the secret is 63 bytes The default secret for each interface is its port world wide name PWWN without the colons for example 0102030405060708 Select the algorithm type from the list e MD5 A hashing algorithm that verifies a message s integrity using Message Digest version 5 e SHA1 A secure hashing algorithm that computes a 160 bit message digest for a data file that is provided as input e MD5SH1 Similar to the MD5 hashing algorithm but used for DH CHAP authentication e SHA1MD5 Similar to the SHA1 hashing algorithm but used for DH CHAP authentication c Select DHNULL as the group value this is the only group that is supported 4 Click Apply to apply the changes 5 Click OK to save the changes and close the dialog box Configuring security authentication using the BCU Enter the following command to display or configure security authentication for the ports bcu auth algo port id lt md sha1 ms sm gt bcu auth policy port id on off bcu auth secret port id secret string bcu auth
32. DH Group DH Null group O is the only option Error Status The health status of the Fibre Channel Security Protocol parameters QoS Parameters Configured QoS State Operating QoS State Indicates whether QoS is enabled or disabled Indicates whether QoS is online or offline Total BB Credit The number of receive buffers Priority Levels Using the property panel QoS priority levels Values include High Medium and Low Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Configuring the port speed using the GUI e Specifying the maximum frame size using the GUI e Specifying the maximum frame size using the GUI Specifying Path Time Out using the GUI e Configuring the HCM logging level using the GUI e Configuring the queue depth using the GUI Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Port Statistics dialog box enables you to monitor the performance of the CNA and the traffic between the CNA and the LUNs You can use the information to isolate and troubleshoot areas that affect application performance Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Port Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description Date The date and time of the most recent reset Port WWN The world wi
33. Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL firmware created exception events HAL Online Offline Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL online and offline events HAL Online Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL online delete events HAL Online IOC down Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL online IOC down events HAL Online Exception Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL online exception events HAL fw Delete f w Responses The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL fw Delete f w responses HAL fw Delete Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL fw Delete Delete events HAL fw Delete IOC down Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL fw Delete IOC down events HAL fw Delete Exception Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL fw Delete Exception events HAL Offline Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL Offline Delete events HAL Offline Online Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL Offline Online events HAL Offline IOC down Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL offline IOC down events Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Field HAL Offline exception events Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Description The number of hardware abstraction layer
34. HBA and CNA a 137 Virtual Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 20000e 138 e VLAN Configuration dialog box CNA only 000 eee eee eee 140 VLAN configuration Add a VLAN dialog box CNA only 141 VLAN configuration Edit a VLAN dialog box CNA only 142 e VLAN Statistics dialog box CNA only 00 ce eee eee eee 143 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Authentication Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Authentication Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Authentication Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information related to transmitted and received DH CHAP attempts for a selected port Opening the dialog box 1 Select a port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt FC_SP gt Authentication Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Date Description The date the statistics were run Auth Failures The number of times security authentication failed Auth Successes The number of times security authentication succeeded Tx Auth Rjts The number of rejected transmitted Fibre Channel authentication attempts Tx Negs The number of transmitted Fibre Channel authentication negotiation attempts Tx Auth Dones The number of completed Fibre Channel authentication negotiation attempts Tx DHCHAP Challenges The number
35. ID is not specified the V Port is created in the base fabric FCP initiator mode is supported Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to add a new V Port Adds the virtual port by its world wide name The V Port WWN is a required argument Adds the virtual port by the node s world wide name for the V Port This is an optional argument If not specified the base port node s world wide name is used Adds the symbolic name for the virtual port This is an optional argument Deletes the specified V Port This deletes all associated objects such as any associated login sessions and active I O requests Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to delete a V Port Deletes the virtual port by its world wide name The V Port WWN is a required argument Queries information about the V Port This provides the V Port s status and information associated with FC 4s If no port WWN is specified the information provided is for the base V Port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to query V Port information Queries the virtual port by its world wide name The V Port WWN is a required argument Displays the statistics that are associated with the V Port If you do not specify the port s world wide name the statistics listed are for the base V Port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display statistical information Displays the statistics for the virtual port by its world wide name
36. Pattern Data Pattern Tests Pending 0 az Test Log Time Test Status Configuration Result Cancel Help FIGURE25 Diagnostics Port Tests dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 63 53 1001256 01 64 6 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI Click the check box that corresponds to the port test you are running Specify the parameters based on parameter information found in Table 15 NOTE Click the Stop on Error check box if you want the test to stop running if an error occurs 5 Click Start to run the test Hardware level test parameters TABLE 15 Hardware level test parameters Hardware level test Parameter Memory test None NOTE During the test IOC will Test Options You can enable or disable this test Regardless of test cycle set value the Memory Test will run only once be disabled PCI loopback test Frame Count Integer from O 4 294 967 295 The default value is 8192 Data Pattern Default value is ASA5A5A5 Test Cycle The number of times the test runs The default value is 10 Port loopback test Subtest ID External Serdes Link Speed 10 Gbps NOTE For an External Loopback test you must plug in the loopback connector Frame Count Integer from O 4 294 967 295 The default value is 8192 Test Cycle The number of times the test runs The default value is 10 Data Pattern hexadecimal Default value is A5A5A5A5 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001
37. The number of times the IOC was started ioc stops The number of times the IOC was stopped link fails The number of link failures lip rx The number of loop initialization LIP receive events that occurred on the firmware port Ir tx The number of times Link Reset Primitive LR transmits started Irr rx The number of times Link Reset Responsive Primitive LRR receives started Irr tx The number of times Link Reset Responsive Primitive LRR transmits started mrk rx The number of MRK receive events that occurred on the firmware port nos rx The number of not operational link has failed receives on the firmware port nos tx The number of not operational link has failed transmits on the firmware port ols rx The number of times Offline Sequence Primitive OLS receives were started ols tx The number of times Offline Sequence Primitive OLS transmits were started oor cnt The percent of data that is out of range over run cnt The number of I O overruns over run err The number of I O overrun errors physm laser faults The number of laser fault events in the Physical Port State Machine PHYSM physm module inserts The number of module inserts in the Physical Port State Machine PHYSM physm module invalids The number of invalid module events in the Physical Port State Machine PHYSM physm module read ign The number of module validation ignored events in the Physical Port
38. Virtual Local Area Network WMI Windows Management Instrumentation WWNN World Wide Node Name The unique name for any particular node in the fabric for example an HBA WWPN World Wide Port Name The unique name for any particular port in the fabric A WWNN can have multiple associated WWPNs 206 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Index A adapter command 151 advanced port configuration options 38 application log 57 auth command 154 Authentication Configuration dialog box 105 authentication security 23 B backing up data prior to uninstalling 15 base port properties panel 80 beaconing configuring using the BCU 69 configuring using the GUI 69 boot groups 33 boot over SAN description of 32 buffer credits 24 C CEE properties 83 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 command adapter 151 auth 154 debug 71 162 diag 62 165 fabric 174 fcdiag 62 175 fcpim 177 IOC 179 log 37 181 Iport 182 port 185 portlog 71 portlogclear 71 portlogct 71 rport 192 vlan 195 vport 197 Configure Names dialog box 89 configuring HCM logging level 37 interrupt control coalesce 40 NPIV 40 persistent binding 28 port speed 27 QoS using the BCU 29 queue depth 39 rate limiting using the CLI 31 security authentication using the GUI 22 debug command 71 162 Define Name dialog box 90 diag command 165 diagnostics related
39. bcu bios query port id bcu bios enable port id s speed o auto flash firstlun p pos b pwwn lun bcu bios disable port id Description You must enable BIOS to support boot over SAN for a CEE port If disabled the host system cannot boot from Fibre Channel disk drives The default setting for the CNA boot BIOS is enabled BIOS must be enabled on only one adapter port per host in order to boot from SAN The port ID can be any of the following Adapter ID e Port ID Port WWN e Port name e Port hardware path Operands query Queries the boot over SAN configuration port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information enable Enables the boot over SAN configuration port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the port s boot from SAN attributes s speed Specifies the port speed as auto negotiate o auto flash firstlun Specifies the following options for obtaining boot LUN information e auto Enables auto discovery When enabled the boot LUN identification is provided by the fabric e flash The CNA obtains the boot LUN information from flash memory Values are saved to flash when you configure them and save them through the BIOS Configuration Utility HCM and BCU e firstlun The host boots from the first LUN visible to the CNA that is discovered in the fabric p pos Specifies the position for storing the boot LUN information in the b pwwn lun operand The range is
40. be run in parallel on a device Indicates whether interrupt control is on or off The value will be off because Interrupt Control Coalesce is not supported on the CNA Interrupt Control Latency Sets the interrupt control latency value Interrupt Control Delay Sets the interrupt control delay value Fabric Parameters Port Type The port type for example N Port FC Address The FCoE port s Fibre Channel address Local Port MAC Configured Port State The media access control address of the local port Indicates whether the FCoE port is enabled or disabled Operating Port State Indicates whether the port is online or offline Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 FCoE port properties CNA only A Field Description Operating Speed The configured speed of the FCoE port Max Speed Supported The maximum speed that is supported on the FCoE port Operating Topology The topology setting Options include auto point to point and loop Frame Data Field Size The frame size in bytes of the FCoE port Hardware Path The hardware path of the CNA of Lports The number of logical ports Operating Parameters MPIO Mode State Indicates whether MPIO is on or off Path Time Out Logging Level The value between O and 60 that specifies the time out session Note You can only enable or edit the path time out when MPIO is disabled Th
41. dialog box HBA and CNA 113 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Appendix B Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 LPORT Properties panel HBA and CNA 000005 115 Master Log tab HBA and CNA 000 ce eee eee eee 116 Master Log Filter dialog box HBA and CNA 0 118 Persistent Binding dialog box HBA and CNA 119 Port POM Properties panel HBA and CNA 005 120 Port Properties panel HBA only a 121 Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 200000 123 Protocol Tests dialog box HBA and CNA 0000 eee 125 QoS Statistics dialog box HBA only ee eee eee 126 Remote Port Properties panel HBA and CNA 127 SFP Properties panel 00 c cece eee eee eee eee 128 Syslog Server Configuration dialog box HBA and CNA 130 Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 134 Test Log Details dialog box HBA and CNA 0005 134 Virtual Port Creation dialog box HBA and CNA 135 Virtual Port Deletion dialog box HBA and CMA 136 Virtual Port Properties panel HBA and CNA 137 Virtual Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 138 VLAN Configuration dialog box CNA only 20 0005 140 VLAN configuration Add a VLAN dialog box CNA only 141 VLAN confi
42. dir e bfa supportsave dir ss file name to create and save the supportsave under dir as the file name ss file name If ss file name already exists it will be overwritten Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 73 53 1001256 01 74 6 supportSave supportSave collection using a browser You can use an Internet browser Internet Explorer 6 or higher or Firefox 2 0 or higher to collect and transfer supportSave information for the driver and the HCM agent Use a browser if you do not have root access if you do not have access to file transfer methods such as FTP and SCP or you do not have access to the Host Configuration Manager HCM 1 Open an Internet browser and type the following URL https localhost 34568 JSONRPCServiceApp SupportSaveController do where localhost is the IP address of the server from which you want to collect the supportSave information 2 Type the agent s credentials using the factory default settings admin and password The File Download dialog box displays prompting you to save the supportSaveController do file 3 Click Save and navigate to the location where you want to save the supportSave file Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HCM Dialog Boxes Appendix A In this section e Authentication Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 77 Backup dialog box HBA and GNA cacscccuiaceasdee Kha REAR tinaaa 79 Base Port Properti
43. distance and speed performance can be severely limited See Buffer credits on page 24 for information about buffer credits Specitying the maximum frame size using the GUI 1 Select Configure Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 2 Select the frame size from the Frame Data Field Size list Options include 512 1024 2048 and 2112 Mbps The default value is 2112 Click Apply to apply the change Click OK to close the window Configuring the frame data field size using the BCU The dfsize command sets the ports maximum receive data field size If you do not specify a value the driver default receive buffer size displays which is 2112 NOTE The new receive data field size takes effect when the port is re enabled Enter the following command to set the frame data field size bcu port dfsize sport id lt dfsize gt Refer to port on page 185 for details about this command Persistent binding Persistent binding enables you to permanently assign a system SCSI target ID to a specific FC device Persistent binding can be achieved by binding to world wide port name WWPN world wide node name WWNN or device ID DID You can access the Persistent Binding dialog box by selecting the Host an HBA a CNA a CEE port or an FCoE port from the device tree Enabling and disabling persistent binding using the GUI Persistent binding can be ena
44. hw_stats_updates DOO O O O OO O S 57195744 96395 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 547 Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port for which you want to display statistics Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port for which you want clear statistics Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 ethport B bcu ethport statsclr 1 0 Successfully reset the ethernet port stats See Also None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 173 53 1001256 01 B fabric fabric Prints and resets Fabric statistics Synopsis bcu fabric stats port id bcu fabric statsclr port id Description Displays or clears Fabric statistics Operands stats Prints the fabric statistics port id Specifies the ID of the fabric port for which you will print the statistics statsclr Resets the fabric statistics port id Specifies the ID of the fabric port for which you will reset the statistics Example bcu fabric stats 1 0 Fabric Stats FLOGI sent 114 FLOGI rsp errors O0 FLOGI accept errors 0 FLOGI accepts 58 FLOGI rejects O0 FLOGI unknown rsp 0 FLOGI alloc wait 0 FLOGI received 0 FLOGI rejected 0 fabric offlines 57 fabric onlines 58 See Also None 174 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 fcdiag Synopsis Description Operands fcdiag B Runs diagnostic tests on Fibre Channel components bcu fcdiag feping port id lt rpwwn gt Ipwwn bcu fcdiag
45. in the device tree 2 Click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Port Parameters Description Port The port number O or 1 Port WWN The port s world wide name Node WWN The HBA s world wide name Port Type The port type for example N Port Name The name that is manually assigned to the port Media Type of software for example 4G sw FC Address The port s Fibre Channel address Configured Port State Indicates whether the port is enabled or disabled Operating State Indicates whether the link is online or offline Configured Speed The configured speed of the port Operating Speed The speed at which the port is operating Max Speed Supported The maximum port speed that is supported on the port Configured Topology The topology setting Options include auto point to point and loop Operating Topology The topology setting at which the port is operating Receive BB Credit The maximum number of receive buffers Transmit BB Credit The maximum number of transmit buffers Frame Data Field Size The frame size in bytes of the port The default is 2112 Select auto to set the frame data field size automatically Hardware Path Indicates whether MPIO is enabled or disabled of LPorts The number of logical ports Boot over SAN Indicates whether the boot over SAN configuration is enabled or disabled
46. limit A new backup file overwrites the oldest file supportSave collection using the GUI There are two ways to trigger a support save collection using the GUI explained in this section 1 Select Tool Support Save from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a host from the device tree and select Support Save from the list NOTE If the agent is up it will use the advanced configuration If there is no agent it will use the basic configuration After the supportSave operation completes the following message is displayed Support Save Completed and is located at HCM HOME Dir data localhost supportSave Basic file name zip 2 Click OK to close the dialog box supportSave collection on a port crash event If the port crashes and triggers a port crash event support save data is collected at a system wide level An application log message is generated with the following message Port Crash Support Save Completed Port crash events have a CRITICAL severity and you can view the details in the Master Log and Application Log tables in HCM For more information refer to Master Log on page 55 and Application log on page 57 supportSave collection using a command prompt bcu debug does not support the bcu debug supportsave command bfa supportsave however supports the following options e bfa supportsave to create and save the supportsave at tmp e bfa supportsave dir to create and save the supportsave under
47. log where all messages are exchanged between the HCM GUI application and the HCM agent e HCM debug log where messages are logged locally If you do not set an HCM log level TRACE which is the most verbose and the default is used Configuring the HCM logging level using the GUI 1 Select Configure HCM Logging Levels from the Host Connectivity Manager The Configure HCM Logging Levels dialog box displays x Configure HCM Logging Levels x Agent Communication Log TRACE inii HCM Debug Log TRACE vi OK Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 11 Configure HCM Logging Levels dialog box 2 From both the Agent Communication Log and the HCM Debug Log lists select one of the following e Trace which is the most verbose e Debug Info e Warning Error e Fatal which is the least verbose 3 Click Apply to apply the change Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 4 37 4 Advanced port configuration Advanced port configuration You can access the Advanced Port Configuration dialog box by selecting an HBA port or an FCoE port from the device tree For each port you can configure the following parameters using the Advanced Port Configuration dialog box the Brocade Command Line utility BCU or both Table 8 lists the features and configuration options TABLE 8 Advanced port configuration options Port configuration parameter Configurable using the GUI Configurable using the BCU Queue Depth Y
48. not required in a local data center network and the necessary functions can be provided with Enhanced Ethernet The purpose of an enhanced Ethernet is to provide reliable lossless transport for the encapsulated Fibre Channel traffic Enhanced Ethernet provides support for jumbo Ethernet frames and in order frame delivery The Brocade FCoE 10 Gbps converged network adapter supports jumbo packets of up to 9 KB compared to the original 1 518 byte MTU for Ethernet The frame size increase allows the same amount of data to be transferred with less effort The frame data field size that you can set using the HCM GUI or BCU is for the storage side You can set the MTU using the OS interface and this is for the network side See Frame data field size on page 28 for information about setting the frame data field size NOTE If a jumbo frame size is set for the CNA the frame size setting on the attached FCoE switch must match or it cannot accept jumbo frames 1 FCoE protocols supported FCoE protocols supported The Brocade FCoE converged network adapter supports two layers of protocols Ethernet link layer and FCoE layer They are listed in the following sections Ethernet link layer protocols supported The following protocols support the Ethernet link layer e 802 1q VLAN e 802 1Qaz enhanced transmission selection e 802 1Qbb priority flow control e 802 3ad link aggregation e 802 3ae 10 Gb Ethernet e 802 1p priority en
49. or Port Description Displays a description of the device Remove Select a device to highlight it then click the Remove button to remove the discovered device from the list Import Click to import properties from a properties file for a selected device Export Click to save properties to a properties file for a selected device Add button For undiscovered devices type in the name of the port s name or the WWN and click the Add button to add it to the Display list EFCM DCFM FM format Select from the list to import properties in EFCM DCFM Data Center Fabric Manager or FM Fabric Manager format Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Name configuration Adding name entries e Removing a name entry e Exporting the properties for a WWN Importing the properties for a WWN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 89 53 1001256 01 A Define Name dialog box HBA and CNA Define Name dialog box HBA and CNA The Define Name dialog box enables you to assign a name to an existing world wide name Opening the dialog box 1 Right click on an HBA a CNA or a port in the device tree NOTE You can not define a name on an FCoE port or an Ethernet port 2 Typea name that represents the adapter or port NOTE The WWN and the Type are not editable 3 Click OK to apply the change and close the window The new component is added to the Name
50. target on which the test will be run from the list Logical Port list Select a logical port on which the test will be run from the list Stop on Error check box Check to flag the system to stop running the test if an error occurs Start button Stop button Using the dialog box Click to run the selected test Click to stop all pending tests Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Configuring beaconing using the GUI Displaying SFP information using the BCU supportSave collection sources Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 125 QoS Statistics dialog box HBA only QoS Statistics dialog box HBA only The QoS Statistics dialog box enables you to view statistics related to Quality of Service QoS Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt QoS Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description ELP accepted The number of ELPs Exchange Link Parameters accepts sent ELP dropped The number of ELPs dropped ELP received The number of ELPs successfully received ELP rejected The number of ELPs rejected QoS Flogi acc_received The number of QoS Fabric login Flogi accept requests received QoS Flogi_sent The number of QoS Fabric login Flogi requests sent QoS_RSCN_received The number of Registered State Change Notifications RSCN received Using the dialog box
51. the ID of the port you want to enable Disables the physical port if currently enabled This is a destructive operation and affects normal operation of the port The port is taken offline all remote FCP sessions are logged out and all outstanding I Os are terminated You are prompted before disabling occurs Specifies the ID of the port you want to disable Forces the operation for scripting 185 B 186 port Example stats port_id statsclr port_id query port id speed port id speed dfsize port id df size topology port_id auto p2p loop bcu port list Displays the physical port level statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display statistical information Clears port level statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Queries and displays port related information for a port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Queries or sets the port speed The port speed can be changed dynamically when the port is enabled If the port is disabled the new port speed setting takes effect when the port is re enabled Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the port speed Specifies the port speed Auto negotiate is the only supported speed value Queries or sets the port s maximum receive data field size If you do not specify a value the current receive buffer si
52. 0 3 The LUN information specified in position O is used first to boot from SAN then information specified for positions 1 2 and 3 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 157 53 1001256 01 158 bios b pwwn lun disable port_id See Also boot HBA only Specifies the host boots from the LUN information defined by the target port world wide name PWWN and LUN value lun Specify the PWWN as a colon separated value and the LUN as a 64 bit decimal value The LUN must be the same LUN that you bound to the CEE port using the storage system s management or configuration utility Disables boot over SAN for the specified port if enabled Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to disable the boot over SAN configuration Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 boot HBA only B boot HBA only Updates the boot code in flash The boot over SAN feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA The adapter id could be any one of the following adapter id e adapter sn adapter name e adapter hwpath NOTE On Solaris systems the Boot Code Image Upload menu is disabled if the host does not have a Fibre Channel HBA card or if the driver version is 1 1 0 7 or lower Synopsis bcu boot blunZone c lt cfg gt p sport wwn r lt rport_wwn gt l lun id lun gt bcu boot upload adapter id image file a Description Boot commands enable you
53. 001256 01 A Eth Statistics dialog box CNA only Eth Statistics dialog box CNA only The Eth Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information related to the Ethernet 94 port Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Eth Statistics from the main menu OR Right click the Ethernet port and select Statistics gt Eth Statistics from the list The Eth Statistics dialog at the host level displays Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the Ethernet IOC statistics Reset button Click to reset all of the statistics to O Date The date the Eth statistics were run TxfO Unicast Octets Total number of transmitted unicast octets TxfO Unicast Total number of transmitted unicast frames TxfO Unicast Vian Total number of transmitted unicast VLANs TxfO Multicast Octets TxfO Multicast Total number of transmitted multicast octets Total number of transmitted multicast frames TxfO Multicast Vian Total number of transmitted multicast VLANs Txfo Broadcast Oc
54. 001256 01 log log B Sets the log level for each module If no log level is specified the current level is used Synopsis bcu log level sport id lt level gt m lt fw ha1 fcs drv aen all gt Description The number of messages logged by the host depends on the predetermined logging level Although the CNA might generate many messages only certain types of messages are logged based on the specified logging level Operands level Specifies the number of messages logged by the host which depends on the predetermined logging level port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the log level level Critical Error Warning Info Specifies the severity level Error is the default setting See Also None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 181 53 1001256 01 B Iport Iport Synopsis Description Operands Lists the logical port Iport commands bcu Iport list port id bcu lport query port id lpwwn bcu Iport stats port id I lowwn bcu Iport statsclr sport id lowwn Lists all the logical ports Iports under a given port ID A logical port is a port that is logged into a fabric Possible logical port type values are the following e Base port e Virtual port Logical port PWWN logical port s port world wide name Logical port NWWN logical port s port node world wide name e FC addr FC address of the logical port Possible roles supported
55. 1256 01 CEE properties panel CNA only CEE properties panel CNA only A The CEE properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected converged network adapter CNA Operational CEE Configuration is displayed when the CEE Status is Active The Remote CEE Configuration table is visible only when the CEE status is inactive and error reason is not one of the following e CEE PHY LINK DOWN e CEE LLDP SHUTDOWN TLV RCVD e CEE PROTOCOL INIT e CEE LLDP INFO AGED OUT Opening the dialog box 1 Select a CNA in the device tree 2 Click the CEE tab in the right pane Fields and components Field FCoE Logical Link Status Description The operational status of the FCoE logical link for example Up or Down DCBCXP Version The DCBCXP version type for example CEE Priority Group ID The priority group ID Values are O 7 and 15 strict priority When coupled with bandwidth percentage and CoS you can manage traffic by grouping like traffic together and giving each type a different priority level Bandwidth The bandwidth percentage for a given priority group Priority Flow Control Indicates whether priority flow control is turned on or off Ethernet Link Layer Specifies a priority value between O signifying best effort and 7 signifying real time data to differentiate traffic FCoE CoS Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256
56. 19 53 1001256 01 A Port POM Properties panel HBA and CNA Port POM Properties panel HBA and CNA 120 The Port POM Properties panel enables you to monitor the SFP attributes A notification is given for any parameters that are not within the configured power temperature voltage and current specification policy NOTE Only Brocade branded SFPs are supported with the 8 Gbps FC HBAs and 10 Gbps CNAs The 4 Gbps SFP bundled with the Brocade 415 or 425 is referred to as SFP the 8 Gbps SFP bundled with the Brocade 815 or 825 is referred to as SFP and the 10 Gbps SFP bundled with the BR 1010 and BR 1020 is referred to as XFP Opening the properties panel 1 Select a port in the device tree 2 Click the POM tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Description Temperature C The port temperature measured in Celsius Bias Current mA The low level DC current the Bias Current measured in mA Tx Power mW The transmitted power measured in mW Rx Power mW The received power measured in mW Voltage The voltage for example 1 8V 3 3V or 5 0V Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Port Properties panel HBA only Port Properties panel HBA only A The Port Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected HBA port NOTE QoS properties apply only to the HBA Opening the properties panel 1 Select a port
57. 256 01 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI 6 Running a Fibre Channel protocol level test using the GUI There are three protocol level tests e Echo test which sends an FC Echo ELS to a remote port e FC ping test which requests the management server to test the connectivity with a given remote port without zoning restrictions Not supported in Solaris operating systems e FC traceroute test which requests to enumerate the route between two given end points Not supported in Solaris operating systems To run one of the protocol level tests use the following procedure 1 Select an adapter or port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the main menu OR Right click the component and select Diagnostics from the list The Diagnostics dialog box is displayed 3 Click the FC Protocol Tests tab V Diagnostics 23 Hardware Tests Ethernet Tests FC Protocol Tests Test Configuration v Echo Test CJ FC Ping Test FC Trace Route Test Cycle Pot AXASASASAXASASA3 V LogicalPot AAAAAA AA AMAA ARAL w Stop on Error Target AAAS ANAN AAA AAA w c Add Remove Remove All Test Port Logical port Target Total Tests 0 Tests Passed O Tests Failed Tests Cancelled 0 Tests Executing 0 Tests Pending O ay Test Log Time Test Status Configuration Result Cancel Help FIGURE26 Protocol level tests dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 65 53 1001256 01
58. 4 0 tx frames 4096 tx words 202448224 rx frames 1024 rx words 10224844 lip count 2096 nos count 64 error frames 2 dropped frames 12 link failures 6 loss of syncs 2 loss of signals 8 primseq errs 2 invalid tx words 4 invalid cres 32 bcu port statsclr dell s1 ad0 pl port stats cleared bcu port query 1 0 port id 1 0 port type CNA port instance 0 port name Media Sw Speed 10G CNA CEE status CEE Linkup FCOE MAC 00 05 le 8e b6 02 pwwn 10 00 00 05 1e 8e b6 02 nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 8e b6 02 state Linkup Topology current P2P configured P2P SNIA port type N supported classes Class 3 symbolic name BR 1020 2 0 0 0 maximum frame size 2112 receive bb credits 48 transmit bb credits 74 QOS Disabled Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 187 B 188 port TRL Disabled TRL default speed 1G Path TOV 30 seconds SCSI queue Depth 0 Beacon status oft Portlog Enabled Vlans Ta Eth Burnt in MAC 00 05 1e 8e b6 04 Currently used MAC 00 05 1e 8e b6 04 state Linkup OS Eth Device eth2 bcu port query 1 1 port id 1 1 port type CNA port instance 1 port name Media 10G sw State Linkup Speed 10G FCOE MAC 00 05 1e 12 34 56 pwwn 10 00 00 05 1e 0d 60 6b nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 0d 60 6b supported classes Class 3 symbolic name BR 1010 maximum frame size 2112 receive bb credits 50 transmit bb credits 8 QoS Disabled
59. 5 importing in FM format 46 Protocol Tests diagnostics dialog box 125 Q quality of service QoS configuring 29 queue depth configuring using the BCU 39 configuring using the GUI 39 R rate limiting configuration 31 remote host management 5 Remote port properties panel 115 127 resetting a password 15 resetting statistics 54 rport command 192 S SAN components types listed in device tree 7 security authentication configuring using the BCU 23 configuring using the GUI 22 Security Authentication dialog box 105 SFP displaying using the BCU 70 displaying using the GUI 70 management information 71 SFP management 70 skip login 12 Solaris launching HCM 12 statistics resetting 54 supportSave categories of information 72 collecting on a port crash event 73 collecting using a browser 74 collecting using the BCU 73 collecting using the GUI 73 collection sources 72 configuring using the CLI 73 209 T test log details 66 Test Log Details dialog box 134 tree node pop up menus 6 U uninstalling the software 15 V vlan command 195 vport command 197 W Windows launching HCM application 11 WWN adding a name 46 exporting 44 importing 45 removing 43 210 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01
60. 53 1001256 01 12 June 2009 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide Supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 Supporting HBA models 415 425 815 825 BROCADE Copyright 2009 Brocade Communications Systems Inc All Rights Reserved Brocade the B wing symbol Biglron DCX Fabric OS Fastlron IronPoint IronShield IronView IronWare JetCore Netlron Securelron Serverlron StorageX and Turbolron are registered trademarks and DCFM Extraordinary Networks and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc in the United States and or in other countries All other brands products or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners Notice This document is for informational purposes only and does not set forth any warranty expressed or implied concerning any equipment equipment feature or service offered or to be offered by Brocade Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use This informational document describes features that may not be currently available Contact a Brocade sales office for information on feature and product availability Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States government The authors and Brocade Communications Systems Inc shall have no liability or re
61. 9 10 28 31 QG INFO Discovery find new info for host hemvista hemvista 03 18 2009 10 28 11 G INFO Start discovery hcmvista a 03 18 2009 10 27 31 INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hcmvista 03 18 2009 10 27 31 G INFO Discovery find new info for host hemvista hemvista 03 8 2009 10 27 31 A MAJOR SFP not found for port 22 AA AA 22 AA AA 22 22 hemvista 03 18 2009 10 27 11 Q INFO Start discovery hemvista 03 18 2009 10 26 35 G INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hemvista 03 18 2009 10 26 35 G INFO Discovery find new info for host hcmvista hemvista 03 18 2008 10 26 35 A MAJOR SFP not found for port 22 AA AA 22 AA AA 22 22 hemvista 0318 2009 10 26 11 Q INFO Start discovery hemvista LJ 03 18 2009 10 25 27 I INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hcmvista aaa dd n User admin Agent 10 32 116 222 Port 34568 Last Updated Fri May 01 10 25 58 MDT 2009 FIGURE23 HCM Application Log Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 57 53 1001256 01 5 Syslog support Syslog support Syslog forwarding is the process by which you can configure the Host Connectivity Manager HCM agent to send Syslog messages to other computers through port 514 You can configure the HCM agent to forward events to a maximum of three Syslog destinations These events will display in the operating system logs The HCM stores all the received events from the driver in the agtEvent log file By default the loc
62. ABLE 1 HCM tree pop up menus SAN component Pop up menu feature Host Refresh All Start Polling Brocade HBA 4 Gbps or 8 Gbps Upload Boot Code Image Change Agent Password Configure Names Basic Port Configuration Persistent Binding Statistics gt Port Statistics FC SP Support Save Tree gt Copy Search Collapse All Expand All Refresh Define Name Upload Boot Code Image Basic Port Configuration Persistent Binding Port Statistics Diagnostics FC SP Enable Adapter Converged Network Adapter CNA 10 Gbps Refresh Define Name Persistent Binding Statistics gt Port CEE FCP IM Module Statistics Diagnostics Enable Port Tree gt Copy Search Collapse All Expand All FCoE Port Refresh Define Names Port Configuration gt Basic Advanced Persistent Binding Virtual Port gt Create Delete Statistics gt Fabric IOC Beacon gt Port Tree gt Copy Search Collapse All Expand All Ethernet Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Refresh Names Basic Port Configuration includes Ethernet Logging Level VLAN Configuration Change Password for HCM User HCM Logging Levels Syslog Statistics gt IOC Ethernet VLAN Diagnostics gt Ethernet Tests Tree gt Copy Search Collapse All Expand All 2 Operating system support Operating system support There are slight differences in the operating systems OSs that are supported on the driv
63. AXXXXA EDC The identifier for the EDC type adapter MDC The identifier for the MDC type adapter Misc Miscellaneous information pertaining to the HP adapter Serial The serial number of the adapter preceded by HP For example hp aabbccddsss Product Description An HP specific description of the adapter IBM Information EC level FRU The adapter s EC level IBM only The adapter s FRU number IBM only Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Configure Names dialog box HBA and CNA A Configure Names dialog box HBA and CNA The Configure Names dialog box enables you to add a world wide name and an associated name for an adapter port or storage device that is not yet discovered You can also remove a device from the Name display list and import from or export properties to a file Opening the dialog box 1 Select any device from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Names from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description Display Select a discovered host from the list Current Host is the default Name The name for all configured devices NOTE You can also search for a name by typing the name into the text box and clicking OK WWN MAC The world wide name for all configured devices NOTE You can also search for a name by typing the world wide name into the text box and clicking OK Type The type of device for example Node
64. Display list Current Host e Al WWNs e Only Nodes Only Ports e Only Remote Ports Click the Import button The Open dialog box displays Navigate to the location of the properties file from which you will import properties for the selected device Name the properties file and click Open Click OK to close the window Importing properties in EFCM format You can use this procedure to import properties in Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager EFCM format 1 In the Configure Names dialog box select EFCM Format and then select Import 2 Click OK 3 Navigate to the location of the properties file from which you will import properties for the selected device The format appears as follows Names Export File V 1 0 DO NOT DELETE MOVE MODIFY THIS LINE For each row in the file the name should be followed by an Column Format WWN Name Type Description EFCM Names file Format Delimiter FE EAE HE FE EE FE HH HE EE FE HE HE HH aE EH EEE FE HE FE FE EE EE EE EEE EE EE EH 200000051e536b20 s Node 200000051e536b43 bfa0 Node 100000051e536b20 a Port 100000051e536b44 bfa0 portl Port 100000051e536b43 bfa0_port0 Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 45 53 1001256 01 4 Name configuration Importing properties in DCFM or FM format You can use this procedure to import properties in DCFM or Fabric Manager FM format 1 In the Configure Names dialog box select DCFM FM Format and the
65. E New password Confirm New password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 2 Change HCM Password dialog box 2 Type the current password for the account The default user name and password are Administrator and password Type the new password of the account The new password must have at least one character different from the old password Retype the new password in the Confirm New password field Click OK NOTE Both the user name and passwords are case sensitive Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 13 53 1001256 01 3 HCM software launch Changing an HCM agent password You can change the default password of the agent to a different password using the Change HCM Agent Password dialog Note the following when you change a password e You must validate your user identity by supplying your old password before you can change to a new password The new password must be different than the old password e The password can begin with an alphabetic numeric or special character e The default minimum and maximum length of the password is 8 and 64 characters You can configure the password length in the HBAApplication properties file min chars for the application password password min 8 max chars for the application password password max 64 The password is encrypted and stored in the noitacitnehtua properties file 1 From the Host Connectivity Manager click Configure gt Change Password gt Change Agent Password T
66. ER X T xe M qs MEE dE qd 159 CRS oucssEcpESUEPQERPRGSPRRLRRRSPRCAR SRI TS RACE ANT AL EFE MEE 160 e UD hacrotnci oiucds HiGes HEEL eC eee eRe wee sue RR a 162 LO E PPM aa nie ane ae Se eee mcr Pe 165 SOGO napana PAGKARAAN cere BAN UR ERR UA EE RS E Seas 168 GIA Loses ch ached hee OGRA REO Se ERI M Red d ERE SERES ERI NU KENN 169 Lut p P rc 170 V BUNGE ruedas rA ERO EX QGURRCERGA RR REA CR AGAT RA NR GO DR TL E s es lacs cdace E RC AA AA MEG 112 Tab Bes os palin BG kA BR HABA DNA d aw cad ade Hoade ee atlew tates asus 174 die AELE AEEA EEEE OLE R RE REGGINA AP 175 AA dl a edi c cuta RD dM ARA DAA EE S ME 179 dj rer EP 181 Balb id aes GY qobeest REL ERG PERNOFAUE REN ESE A ERE TIR NM UR 182 DOO cuia oe tad sa pie daa ER Echec asa Md CAM RU Boda ERU E Ea 184 APAPAP PER GU EG 185 gos HBA OMN sc paaa Cheat BAD GA TH X OERESPERETRERS GU KENN 190 fe HBA GHG dasebedcoidsieicddiiqddx aee AG 191 DOM cvs cen eaeue ewok OE eee Ree UREN ER ou eee Sear ARE ERE 192 OMA otacs AGAIN Moats Hanes MEds HEU oRe T Cee kere eens 195 OVO ua nied wa ices i a Queue a ave d Memes eer ae eee a ye nae teenager ent 197 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 145 B About the BCU About the BCU This appendix provides reference documentation for the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU supporting the Brocade Fibre Channel components BCU runs in two modes e Direct mode where you type the command at the command prompt For examp
67. Ea VLANDD vLaNneme 1 vlani Add 2 vlan2 Edit Remove OK Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 15 VLAN Configuration dialog box Click the Add button that corresponds to the VLANs table Click Add on the VLAN Configuration dialog Figure 15 The Add VLAN dialog displays Figure 16 shows a VLAN configuration before a passthru VLAN is configured Add VLAN Port MAC 2A2A2A2A2A28 vianio 3 VLAN Name vlan3 _ Create Passthru Cancel Help FIGURE 16 Add VLAN dialog box Enter a VLAN identifier in the VLAN ID text box The range is 1 to 4094 Enter a VLAN name in the VLAN Name text box The VLAN name must not exceed 31 characters Optional Click the Create Passthru checkbox to designate the VLAN as a Passthru VLAN Click OK Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 49 4 50 VLAN configuration VLAN configuration conflicts Figure 17 shows the VLAN Configuration dialog box if a PORT VLAN exists in the configuration When a PORT VLAN exists the VLAN Add Edit and Remove buttons are disabled VLAN Configuration VLANID VLANName 4094 PORT VLAN Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 17 VLAN Configuration dialog box with PORT VLAN A port VLAN cannot co exist with a regular or Passthru VLAN If the configuration includes a regular VLAN or a Passthru VLAN and a PORT VLAN an error message displays shown in Figure 18 VLAN ID VLANName too wan 2 vlan2 o PASSTHRU 1000 PORT VLAN Por
68. Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a remote port and select Target Statistics Fields and components Field Description Date The date and time of the most recent reset WWN The world wide name of the selected remote port Offlines The remote ports that are offline RSCNs The number of Fibre Channel Registered State Change Notifications RSCNs received PLOGI Sent The number of times port logins when two node ports in the SAN establish a connection between each other occur PLOGI Accepts The number of times port logins are accepted PLOGI Timeouts The number of times port logins time out PLOGI Failed PLOGI Rejects The number of times port logins fail The number of times port logins are rejected PLOGI Received The number of times port logins are received PRLI Received The number of times PRLIs are received ADISC Sent The number of discover address ADISC requests sent ADISC Accepts The number of times discover address ADISC requests are accepted ADISC Failed The number of times discover address ADISC requests fail ADISC Rejects The number of times discover address ADISC rejects ADISC Received The number of times discover address ADISC requests are received ADISC Rejected The number of times discover address ADISC requests are rejected LOGO Sent The number of times logouts occur LOGO Accepts The number of t
69. LAN is identified using a VLAN ID with a range of 1 4094 where O is used for an untagged VLAN and a VLAN name e Passthru VLAN A Passthru VLAN has VLAN ID O and PASSTHRU as its VLAN Name It can be created or deleted at any time and is treated as a regular VLAN however a Passthru VLAN is not editable e Port VLAN PVID You create a Port VLAN using Windows Device Manager The VLAN ID is assigned when it is created and the VLAN name is PORT VLAN You cannot create edit or delete a Port VLAN using the Host Connectivity Manager HCM NOTE If a PORT VLAN exists in the VLAN configuration you cannot perform any add delete or edit operations on any VLAN In addition you cannot view statistical information on any VLAN Adding a VLAN You can access the VLAN Configuration dialog box by selecting an Ethernet port from the device tree This procedure provides instructions about how to add a VLAN to an Ethernet port NOTE You can create a regular VLAN or a passthru VLAN only if a Port VLAN ID PVID does not exist You cannot name a regular VLAN PORT LAN or Passthru 1 From the Ethernet port level select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click an Ethernet port and select VLAN Configuration from the list 48 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 VLAN configuration 4 The VLAN Configuration dialog displays VLAN Configuration
70. MD5 DH NULL Here is an example of the output when authentication failed bcu auth port show 1 0 Port Status Auth Hash Type Group Type 1 0 Linkdown failed MD5 DH NULL Here is an example of the output when authentication is not enabled bcu auth port show 1 0 Port Status Auth Hash Type Group Type 1 0 bcu auth Linkup no auth policy 2 1 on Authentication turned on bcu auth policy 2 1 off Authentication turned off bcu auth secret 5 0 mypasswd Authentication secret set bcu auth reinit 4 1 Authentication restarted bcu auth stats 4 1 successes l failures 0 auth rx stats auth rjts O0 auth negs 0 auth dones 0 dhchap challenges 2 dhchap replies 0 dhchap successes 1 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 155 53 1001256 01 B 156 auth See Also aut aut aut aut dhe dhe dhe aut Suc h_tx_stats h rjtss 0 h negs 2 h dones 0 hap challenges 0 hap replies 2 hap successes 0 h statsclr 4 1 cessfully cleared auth stats None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 bios B bios Enables the basic input output system BIOS in preparation for Boot Over SAN The BIOS is the firmware code that when first powered on is a type of boot loader NOTE Refer to the Brocade Fibre Channel CNA Installation and Reference Manual for more information about configuring BIOS Synopsis
71. OC is already disabled the command is ignored Specifies the ID of the port you want to disable Queries the attributes of the IOC with the IOC ID Specifies the port of the IO Controller IOC you want to enable Sets the interrupt attributes for the port Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to set interrupt attributes Sets the coalesce flag Possible values are on or off Sets the latency monitor timeout value Latency can be between O to 225 microseconds A latency value of O disables latency monitor timeout interrupt 179 B toc delay Sets the delay timeout interrupt value A delay can be between O to 1125 microseconds A delay value of O disables the delay timeout interrupt Example bcu ioc stats 1 0 Num suspends 7 bcu ioc statsclr 1 0 ioc stats cleared bcu ioc enable 1 0 ioc is enabled bcu ioc enable adi pO ioc is already enabled bcu ioc disable 1 0 ioc is disabled bcu ioc disable adl p0 ioc is already disabled bcu port intr 1 0 coalesce off interrupt coalescing has been turned off bcu ioc intr 1 0 coalesce on interrupt coalescing has been turned on bcu ioc intr 1 0 coalesce on latency xxx delay xxx interrupt coalescing has been turned on bcu ioc intr 1 0 coalesce on latency xxx delay xxx interrupt coalescing parameter set failed Latency delay value out of range See Also adapter Iport 180 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1
72. Port Configuration 23 Serial 40010101 Hardware Path 30 00 11 Ports Port Name Port Type Configured State Operating State Configured Speed Operating Speed Configured Topology Operating To o Port 0 UNKNOWN Enabled Enabling qwait 1 Gb s 8 Gbis Point to Point Point to Point 1 Port1 OTHER Enabled Enabling qwait 4 Gb s Auto Negotiate Point to Point Point to Point ay Port Parameters Boot over SAN Apply BIOS Enable v Speed Auto Negotiate ssi Boot Option User Configured LUNs cedi Apply To All Boot Device Port WAN Vendor Info LUN LUN Capacity Accessible Apply All action amp 22 22 22 FF 22 22 22 0000 0000 1110 no t will mot change BB 22 22 22 FF 22 22 22 1000 0000 1110 no 4 port wwr or number x 4 i i i d o OK Cancel Help FIGURE 8 Boot over SAN dialog box 6 Click the BIOS Enable check box to enable Boot Over SAN NOTE Auto Negotiate is the only speed option for the 10 Gbps CNA card 7 From the Boot Option list select one of the following e Auto Discovered from Fabric Enables Boot over SAN using boot LUN information stored in the fabric This is the default setting First Visible LUN Enables Boot over SAN from the first discovered LUN in the SAN e User Configured LUNs Allows the user to select and prioritize the remote target and LUN for booting over SAN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 33 53 1001256 01 4 34 Boot over SAN HBA only 8
73. Port Onlines The number of online R_Ports RPort Offlines The number of offline R_Ports PRLI Sent The number of process login PRLI requests sent Fexp Alloc Waits The number of FCXP allocation waits PRLI Rsp Errors PRLI Rsp Accepts The number of process login PRLI response errors The number of process login PRLI response accepts Num Times in Initiator Mode The number of times the RPort has been in initiator mode HAL Online Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL online events HAL Offline Events HAL Create Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL offline events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL create events HAL Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete events HAL Create Completions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL create completions HAL Delete Completions HAL SLER Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL delete completions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL sequence layer error recovery SLER events HAL IOC Down Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL IOC Down events HAL IO Cleanup Completions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL I O cleanup completions HAL Task Management Commands The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL task management commands HAL TM FirmwareResponses The number o
74. PortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 00 40 27 Fth Loonbeck INT Cu DASS bhheMA C oulllocalBortha A C Total Tests 1 Tests Passed 1 Tests Failed Tests Cancelled Tests Executing Tests Pending Result Started Eth Loopback T Executing Eth Loopbac 7 Eth Loopback test com lt Executing Eth Loopbac Eth Loopback test com Executing Eth Loopbac f Eth Loopback test com j Executing Eth Loopbac Eth Loopback test com Executing Eth Loopbac p Eth Loopback test com Executing Eth Loopbac Eth Loopback test com Executing Eth Loopbac Eth Loopback test com Executing Eth Loopbac Eth Loonhack tast com v Cancel Help Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Beaconing Beaconing 6 The Ethernet Test options are described in Table 17 TABLE 17 Ethernet Test parameters Ethernet loopback test Subtest ID External Serdes Link Speed 10 Gbps NOTE For an External Loopback test you must plug in the loopback connector Frame Count Integer from 1 131072 128K The default value is 65536 64K Test Cycle The number of times the test runs The default value is 10
75. R ee NN LPA BA rte ter eee nee teas dave dana 18 Setting up out of band discovery for an adapter 18 Logging off HOM lle mmn 19 Chapter 4 Host Configuration In this chapter e iinan cem Dem mee n E ee a ee i 21 Host security authentication eee ee 21 Configuring security authentication using the GUI Host and HBA 22 Configuring security authentication using the BCU 23 Buffer cr ditsc 3 AT NAG NAN dc ER nct d 24 Basic port configuration saaran aa nana 24 Opening the Basic Port Configuration dialog box 25 Port logging level 0 0 cece eee een 26 Ethernet logging level 0 0 0 c cece eee eee eee 26 PortSpeed sue Ni er ere hl eek tee roce eee ee 27 Frame data field size ee 28 Persistent binding ka Nak a ah T oi 28 QoS HBA only sss re een eee Hx ege mx RAVENA NG 29 MPIO HBA Only 2 0 0 cee cece eee eee mmn 30 Path TIME QUt s ov tc wees sete ee aed Pe wale ed ee ee eS 31 Target rate limiting HBA only 022 eee eee eee 31 Boot over SAN HBA only 0000 cece eee eee eee 32 Configuring Boot over SAN 000 cece eee eee eee 33 Boot code image upload HBA only 000000ee 34 Virtual Port configuration c eee eee 35 Creating a Virtual Port 0 0 0 eee eee 35 Deleting a Virtual Port 2 2 0 0 eee eee 36 iv Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 HCM Logging levels cece eee 37 Co
76. Statistics gt VLAN Statistics from the main menu The VLAN Statistics dialog box displays Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Reset button Click to manually poll the VLAN statistics Click to reset all of the statistics to O Date The date the VLAN statistics were run VLAN ID The VLAN identifier VLAN Name The VLAN name TxBytes The number of transmitted bytes RxBytes The number of received bytes Duration The length of time between byte transmission and reception Status The connection status Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e VLAN configuration e Adding a VLAN e VLAN configuration conflicts Editing a VLAN e Removing a VLAN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 143 VLAN Statistics dialog box CNA only 144 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Brocade Command Utility Appendix B In this appendix AE a ex ital a ele eh eae acd dose des e Ri Gloves Geta dudas M ad un 151 SAM oreretarra ipada r aa Sd E HI EAR ENAT AEE 154 Ms mr mr 157 Dot OMS OD ei a med e
77. TRL Disabled TRL default speed fcpim MPIO mode Disabled Path TOV 30 seconds SCSI queue depth 0 Beacon status Off Portlog Enabled Vlans 0 eth MAC 00 05 1e 12 34 57 OS eth device eth0 bcu port topology 1 1 Current topology auto bcu port topology 1 1 p2p Topology set to p2p bcu port topology 1 1 auto Topology set to auto bcu port speed 1 0 auto Port speed set bcu port speed 1 0 Current port speed is 10G Configured port speed is Auto Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 See Also port bcu port dfsize 1 1 2112 Setting will be enforced after port disable and enable bcu port dfsize 1 1 auto Setting will be enforced after port disable and enable bcu port dfsize 1 1 2112 Port maximum receive data field size met bcu port dfsize 1 1 auto Port maximum receive data field size set to driver default adapter OC Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 189 B qos HBA only qos HBA only 190 Synopsis Description Operands Example See Also NOTE The QoS feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA Quality of Service QoS works in conjunction with the QoS feature on Brocade switch F_ports The Fabric operating system FOS provides a mechanism to assign traffic priority high medium or low for a given source and destination traffic flow By default all flows are marked as m
78. The number of elastic FIFO EFIFO underflow events on the firmware port enable_reqs The number of IOC firmware enable requests hb_count The number of IOC firmware heartbeats hwsm_fails The number of Hardware State Machine HWSM failures for the firmware port speed negotiation state machine hwsm_success The number of Hardware State Machine HWSM successes for the firmware port speed negotiation state machine hwsm_wdtov The timeout value for the Hardware State Machine HWSM ic_reqs The number of interrupt coalesce requests idle_rx The number of IDLE receive primitive events that occurred on the firmware port imp_aborted The number of times an implicit I O abort has occurred intr The number of firmware port interrupts Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 109 A 110 IOC Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Field Description intr_causeO The number of O cause interrupts on the firmware port intr evt The number of event type interrupts on the firmware port intr other The number of other type interrupts on the firmware port intr other ign The number of other ign interrupts on the firmware port ioc boots The number of IOC boots ioc disables The number of times the IOC was disabled ioc enables The number of times the IOC was enabled ioc hbfails The number of heartbeat failures on the IOC driver ioc starts
79. Xiii 53 1001256 01 e Appendix C HCM Troubleshooting provides a summary of HCM navigation problems and workarounds 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 follows bold text Identifies command names Identifies the names of user manipulated GUI elements Identifies keywords and operands Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI italic text Provides emphasis Identifies variables Identifies paths and Internet addresses Identifies document titles code text Identifies CLI output Identifies command syntax examples For readability command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed lettercase for example switchShow In actual examples command lettercase is often all lowercase Otherwise this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case sensitive Notes cautions and warnings The following notices and statements are used in this manual They are listed below in order of increasing severity of potential hazards NOTE Anote 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 data A CAUTION A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous
80. adb bcu adapter name 1 adapter BRCD1234567 s name is emc fab3 ad5 IOC port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 adapter B 153 B auth auth 154 Synopsis Description Operands Enables authentication configuration on a per port basis and the ability to display authentication status and statistics bcu auth algo port id lt md sha1 ms sm gt bcu auth policy sport id on off bcu auth secret port id secret string bcu auth show port id bcu auth stats port id bcu auth statsclr port id Configure and display authentication settings and status algo Sets the authentication algorithm port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information md sha1 ms sm e MD5 A hashing algorithm that verifies a message s integrity using Message Digest version 5 MD5 produces a 128 bit digest and is the required authentication mechanism for LDAP v3 servers SHA1 A secure hashing algorithm that computes a 160 bit message digest for a data file that is provided as input e MDSSHI Similar to the MDS hashing algorithm but used for DH CHAP authentication SHAIMDS Similar to the SHAI hashing algorithm but used for DH CHAP authentication policy Turns authentication on or off By default the authentication policy is disabled If authentication is enabled the port attempts to negotiate with the Switch If the switch side does no
81. and CNA Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 97 A FCoE port properties CNA only 98 FCoE port properties CNA only The FCoE Port properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected FCoE port Opening the properties panel Select an FCoE port in the device tree and click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field FCoE Port information Description State The state of the FCoE port online or offline PWWN The FCoE port s world wide name NWWN The node s world wide name Supported Classes The class that is supported on the selected FCoE port Symbolic Name MTU The nickname for the selected FCoE port The FCoE port s maximum transmission unit based on the specified FC frame size Beacon State Indicates whether beaconing is on or off Portlog FCoE information Indicates whether the port log is enabled or disabled FIP state The state of the Fibre Channel Initialization Protocol online or offline Priorities Lists the available priorities PG ID The priority group ID Values are O 7 and 15 strict priority Bandwidth The bandwidth percentage for a given priority group Advanced Port Parameters Queue Depth Interrupt Control Coalesce The number of I O operations that can
82. and CNA A Virtual Port Properties panel HBA and CNA The Virtual Port Parameters properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a virtual port or FCoE port Opening the properties panel Select a virtual port from the device tree and click the Properties tab Fields and components Field Description Port WWN The port s world wide name Node WWN The adapter s world wide name FC Address The Fibre Channel address of the virtual port State Indicates whether the virtual port is online or offline Roles The role of the virtual port for example FCP Initiator Base Port Indicates whether the virtual port is used as the base port Switch NWWN The world wide name of the switch Symbolic name The switch s symbolic name Switch IP address The switch s IP address Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Virtual Port configuration e Creating a Virtual Port e Deleting a Virtual Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 137 53 1001256 01 A Virtual Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Virtual Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Virtual Port Statistics dialog box enables you to view statistical information related to a 138 selected virtual port or FCoE port Opening the dialog box 1 Select a virtual port from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics g
83. ated to the Fibre Channel port initiator mode Specifies the ID of the module for which you want to display statistical information Clears statistics related to the Fibre Channel port initiator mode Specifies the ID of the module for which you want to clear statistical information Sets the device path timeout value tov in seconds 1 60 Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to enable or disable the FCP initiator mode Specifies the optional path time out value TOV in seconds 1 to 60 A value of O triggers the default timeout value The default TOV is 10 seconds 177 B 178 fcpim Example See Also bcu fcpim stats 1 0 50 00 rport onlines rport offlines PRLI sent PRLI Accepts PRLI error responses PRLI responses parse err fcxp alloc waits Second level err recovery Num times in initiator mode HAL fcpim statistics online events offline events create events delete events create completions delete completions SLER events IOC down events IO cleanup completions l1f el DOO O O F BW BS task management commands TM firmware responses successes failures related IO cleanups AHHH AHH IO requests IO completions OC vport firmware queue resumed affected by IOC down events affected by ITN offline TM offline cleanup completions 0 50 0d da a9 So C C TOTO Q O Wr ON AB O E C amp 456026 456026 Brocade Adapters Adm
84. ation is opt hcmagent log hbaEvents 1og in Linux and Solaris systems Opening the Syslog Server Configuration dialog box 1 Select an adapter from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Syslog from the main menu The Syslog Server Configuration dialog box displays e Host Name IP Address Add Host Name IP Address Remove _ Set this IP in all discovered agents in future Cancel Help FIGURE 24 Syslog Server Configuration dialog box Registering a host server You can register up to three Syslog destinations on managed Fabric OS devices 1 Select Configure gt Syslog from the main menu The Syslog Server Configuration dialog box displays 2 Enter the host name or IP address of the destination device into the Host Name IP Address field Click Add to register the host as a Syslog destination Click OK to close the dialog box 58 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Syslog support Removing a host server 1 OT BQN Select Configure gt Syslog from the main menu The Syslog Server Configuration dialog box displays Enter the host name of the destination device into the Hostname field Enter the IP address of the destination device into the IP Address field Click Remove to remove the host as a Syslog destination Click OK to close the dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 59 60 5 Syslog support Brocade Adapters Ad
85. ause The root cause of the event Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Master Log Event severities e Filtering event log entries Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Fabric Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Fabric Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Fabric Statistics dialog box enables you to view statistics on a selected Fabric Opening the dialog box 1 Select a port from the device list 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Fabric Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field FLOGI sent Description The number of Fabric logins sent A FLOGI rsp errors FLOGI accepts The number of Fabric login response errors The number of times Fabric login attempts are accepted FLOGI rejects The number of times Fabric login attempts are rejected FLOGI unknown rsp The number of unknown Fabric login responses FLOGI alloc waits FLOGI received The number of delayed Fabric login allocations The number of times Fabric logins are received FLOGI rejected The number of times Fabric logins are rejected Fabric Offlines The number of Fabrics that are offline Fabric Onlines Using the dialog box The number of Fabrics that are online Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA
86. ays the usage enable Enables the adapter ad id Specifies the ID of the adapter you want to enable disable Disables the adapter ad_id Specifies the ID of the adapter you want to disable list Lists all adapters in the system For each adapter in the system a brief summary line is displayed name Displays or specifies the name of the adapter Note Use an empty string to clear a previous adapter name Adapter names are stored persistently serial no adapter index Specifies the serial number or the ID of the adapter for which you want to display information adapter name Specifies the adapter name The name can include up to 15 characters must begin with a letter can consist of letters digits hyphens and underscore characters but must not contain spaces This operand is optional if you do not specify an adapter name the current adapter name displays query Queries or displays adapter information ad_id Specifies the ID of the adapter for which you want to query Example bcu adapter list Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 151 53 1001256 01 B adapter AD NP HW path Type Model Info Serial num Name 1 2 0000 01 00 FC Brocade 825 ALX0303D01C 2 2 0000 09 00 FC Brocade 825 ALX0301D06D 3 2 0000 14 00 CNA BR 1010 ALXO714DO5R bcu adapter query 1 Example bcu adapter query 1 Adapter Information model info BR 1020 OEM info N A num ports 2 max speed 10 Gbps chip revi
87. bled or disabled from the HCM GUI using the following steps 1 Launch the Basic Port Configuration dialog at the port level 2 Check or uncheck the persistent binding check box in the Basic Port Configuration dialog NOTE The Persistent Binding check box is not available for Solaris agents Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Basic port configuration 4 Enabling and disabling persistent binding using the BCU Target persistent binding enables target port world wide name binding to a persistent target ID for the OS stack Using the list operand you can query the list of mappings from the persistent binding module Enter the following commands to configure target persistent binding bcu pbind list lt port_id gt lt pwwn gt bcu pbind clear port id Refer to pbind on page 184 for details about this command QoS HBA only NOTE The QoS feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA Quality of Service QoS works in conjunction with the QoS feature on Brocade switch F Ports The Fabric operating system FOS provides a mechanism to assign traffic priority high medium or low for a given source and destination traffic flow By default all flows are marked as medium This feature is supported only on 8 Gbps HBA ports installed on specific switch models that use Fabric OS 6 2 and later The following licenses need to be installed on the switch connected to each HBA port edg
88. box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Name configuration Adding name entries Removing a name entry Exporting the properties for a WWN Importing the properties for a WWN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 91 Eth IOC Statistics dialog box CNA only Eth IOC Statistics dialog box CNA only The Eth IOC Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information related to the Ethernet IOC Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Eth IOC Statistics from the main menu OR Right click the Ethernet port and select Statistics gt Eth IOC Statistics from the list The Eth IOC Statistics dialog at the host level displays Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the Ethernet IOC statistics Reset button Click to reset all of the statistics to O Date The date the Eth IOC statistics were run Mailbox Interrupts The number of mailbox interrupts that occurred on the Ethernet IOC Enable Events The numbe
89. by the logical port are FCP initiator mode IM FCP target mode FCPTM and IP over FC support IP list port id query port id lpwwn stats port id Ipwwn statsclr port_id Ipwwn Lists all the Iports for a specified port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Lists the attributes of the logical port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Specifies the logical port s world wide name for which you want to display information If the Ipwwn is not specified the base port is used Displays the logical port s statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display statistical information Specifies the logical port s world wide name for which you want to display statistical information If the Ipwwn is not specified the base port is used Clears the logical port s statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Specifies the logical port s port world wide name for which you want to clear statistical information If the Ipwwn is not specified the base port is used Example bcu lport list 5 1 Port ID 5 1 Port Name ad5 pl Port PWWN 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 Port NWWN 10 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 Port HW Path 1 5 3 0 Num LPORTs 4 182 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 See Also B Iport PT Logical Port PWWN Logical Port NWWN FC Addr FC4 Roles
90. ceived Collects the data received over the network link from the transmitting network element NE resulting in both the local NE and the remote NE having the port discovery data at each end of the network link LLDP TLVs Discarded The number of discarded type length value TLV elements for LLDP LLDP TLVs Unrecognized The number of unrecognized type length value TLV elements for LLDP DCBX TLVs Unrecognized DCBX Negotiation Failed The number of unrecognized type length value TLV elements for DCBX The number of failed DCBX negotiation attempts DCBX Remote Config Changed The number of times a remote configuration was changed for DCBX DCBX TLVs Received The number of received type length value TLV elements for DCBX DCBX TLVs Invalid DCBX Sequence Numbers The number of invalid type length value TLV elements for DCBX The number of DCBX sequence numbers on the physical port of the CNA DCBX Acknowledgements Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of DCBX acknowledgements on the physical port of the CNA 83 CEE Statistics dialog box CNA only Field Description of the CNA DCBX Receive Acknowledgements The number of receive acknowledgements for DCBX CEE HW Config Changed The number of times the physical port of the CNA changed CEE Status Down The number of status down events on the physical port of the CNA CEE Status Up The nu
91. ching Firmware trace Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fetching Firmware trace Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fetching Firmware trace Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 00050001 00050001 O0fffffd O0fffffd O0fffffd O0ffffd 0 O0fffffd O0fffffd O0fffffd O0fffffd port for port for port port port for port for port for por for port for port for port 0005fffEf 00050006 00050006 00050006 0006ffff 00060007 00060007 00060007 debug 10000000 02000000 11100060 02100060 1 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 3 0 3 1 2 0 3 0 163 B debug Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fetching Firmware trace for port 3 1 Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fetching supportshow details Done Creating a tar ball Done See Also None 164 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 diag B diag Lists the non destructive group of diagnostic commands Synopsis bcu diag sfpshow port id bcu diag tempshow ad id bcu diag beacon port id on off t lt secs gt bcu diag pciloopback sport id pattern bcu diag loopback port id t lt sub_test_id gt s lt speed gt c lt count gt p lt pattern gt bcu diag memtest lt port_id gt bcu diag queue
92. coding e EEE 1149 1 JTAG for manufacturing debug and diagnostics e Pv4 specification RFC 793 768 e Pv6 specification RFC 2460 e TCP UDP specification RFC 793 768 e ARP specification RFC 826 e RSS with support for IPVATCP IPV4 IPV6TCP IPV6 hash types e HDS Header data split FCoE protocols The following protocols support Fibre Channel over Ethernet e FIP FC BB5 compliant e Support for FIP Discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link management e Support for FPMA and SPMA type FIP fabric login e Support for Initiator mode only FCP 3 compliant in Initiator mode e SCSI protection information support P over FC e NPIV support 4 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Chapter HCM Overview 2 In this chapter OR oasis i caesarean ad eee wd aaa acd Ra xn cau edu ented Es xe a Raro a dela 5 HON EAE Syre noiet Shree GRAN RS ERR CRGA SN TE X NAR RR RUE ER UA 6 e Tree Node pop up Menus 41 023 Exo ERRARE RU ERG ERG E KR PRA 6 Operating Sy Ste Mh SUDDOFL eus cu exe vxo Rae rer rCELAda ead ace ERU ge 8 HCM software The Host Connectivity Manager HCM is a management software application for configuring monitoring and troubleshooting Brocade HBAs and Converged Network Adapters CNAs in a storage area network SAN environment The management software has two components The agent which runs on the host e The management console which is the graphical user interfac
93. ctivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure Names If there are duplicate names the Duplicated Names dialog box displays Duplicated Names x LJ The following names are found to be identical which violate the unique name policy you are trying to set What do you want to do with them Append Incremental numbers for all repetitive names C will fix them myself Duplicated Names Name WAAN _ Operational Status Type Description hellot 10 00 00 05 1E 53 0 Unknown Port OK Cancel Help FIGURE 14 Duplicated Names dialog box 2 Determine which method you will use to fix the name policy violation and click the appropriate button Append incremental numbers for all repetitive names Click to instruct the software to add incremental numbers to fix the duplicated names will fix them myself Change duplicate names using the procedure in Editing the name fields on page 42 Click OK 47 4 VLAN configuration VLAN configuration A Virtual LAN VLAN is a collection of network nodes that share the same broadcast domain regardless of their physical location or connection point to the network A VLAN serves as a logical workgroup with no other physical barriers and allows users to share information and resources as though located on the same LAN NOTE VLAN configuration is a Windows only feature There are three types of VLANS e Regular VLAN A V
94. d disabling rate limiting on the adapter side using the GUI 82 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 CEE Statistics dialog box CNA only A CEE Statistics dialog box CNA only The CEE Statistics dialog box enables you to display the statistics that are associated with the link layer port Opening the CEE Statistics dialog box 1 From the device tree select a physical port of a CNA 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt CEE Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the CEE statistics Reset button Click to reset all of the statistics to O LLDP Frames Transmitted Transmits the local network element NE data on a per link basis to the remote NE at the other end of the link LLDP Frames Aged Out The number of LLDP frames that timed out between the local and remote ends of the link LLDP Frames Discarded The number of LLDP frames that were discarded between the local and remote ends of the link LLDP Frames with Error The number of LLDP frames that were not transmitted because of errors Frames Re
95. de name of the port about which statistics are displayed TX Frames The number of total transmitted Fibre Channel frames across all protocols and classes RX Frames The number of total received Fibre Channel frames across all protocols and classes TX Words The number of total transmitted Fibre Channel words across all protocols and classes RX Words The number of total received Fibre Channel words across all protocols and classes LIP Count The number of loop initialization LIP events NOS Count The number of not operational link has failed events Error Frames Dropped Frames The number of frames that have been received in error The number of frames that were lost due to a lack of host buffers available Link Failure Count The number of times a link error has occurred Loss Of Sync Count The number of times loss of sync has occurred Loss Of Signal Count The number of times loss of signal has occurred Primitive Seq Protocol Err Count The number of primitive sequence protocol errors Undersized Frame The number of undersized frame errors Bad EOF Frame The number of end of frame EOF errors Oversized Frame The number of oversized frame errors Invalid CRC Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of frames received with invalid CRC 123 A Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Using the dialog box Refer to the following topic
96. documentation 61 running port level test 63 65 types of tests 6 207 dialog box Authentication Configuration 105 Configure Names 89 Define Master Log Filter 118 Define Name 90 Event Properties 96 Persistent Binding 119 Protocol Tests diagnostics 125 Security Authentication 105 Test Log Details 134 discovery description of 6 setting up 18 setting up out of band 18 documentation related for diagnostics 61 E event categories 116 event logs how to filter 56 Event Properties dialog box 96 event severities 55 events master log 55 F fabric command 174 fcdiag command 175 fcpim command 177 filtering event log entries 56 frame data field size specifying using the BCU 28 specifying using the GUI 28 H HBA Properties panel 87 107 HCM authentication 13 14 change password dialog box 85 features 6 logging level configuration 37 main window 16 master log icons 55 product icons 17 software overview 5 statistics monitoring 6 208 host management remote 5 interrupt control coalesce configuring using the GUI 40 IOC command 179 L launching HCM on Linux 12 on Solaris 12 on Windows 11 Linux launching HCM 12 log application 57 master log 55 test 66 log command 37 181 log off 19 login how to skip 12 lport command 182 M management software components 5 Master Log Filter dialog box 118 Master Log properties 55 Master Log Properties tab 116 mo
97. e rece sent rece reje reje sent sent accepts failed accepts failed accepts failed rejected received received rejects accepts failed rejected 1 outs cts ived ived ived cts cUed DO OO SOOO CD Q3 DOO TO CY C C CO SOO N B cC BN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 rport B 193 B 194 rport See Also HAL rport statistics uninit create events uninit exception events created online events created delete events created IOC down created exception events fw create f w responses fw create delete events fw create offline events fw create IOC down fw create exception events online offline events online delete events online IOC down events online exception events fw delete fw delete fw delete fw delete offline offline offline offline delete fw responses delete I delete e delete pe delete pe delete pe off pendi off pendi off pendi off pendi IOC down IOC down IOC down IOC down bcu rport Successfully None fw responses delete events IOC down events exception events delete events online events IOC down events exception events OC down events xception events nd fw responses nd IOC downs nd exceptions ng fw responses ng deletes ng IOC downs ng exceptions offline events delete events online events exceptio
98. e The transmission rate roughly equivalent to the number of bits per second Length 9u The length of the single mode fiber optic cable used in situations where gigabit performance is not required for distances greater than 100 meters Length 5Ou The length of the fiber optic cable for distances greater than 10 meters Length 62 5u The length of the fiber optic cable for distances greater than 10 meters Length Cu The length of the copper cable for distances greater than 1 meter where optimum performance is required Vendor Name The vendor of the extended link Vendor OUI The vendor s organizational unique identifier OUI Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Field Vendor Part SFP Properties panel Description The part number of the extended link A Revision The revision level of the extended link Wavelength The wavelength translation which enables longer reach through lower attenuation Options Displays details about the transceiver for example the type of port connector type of transceiver and enable disable status BR Max The upper bit rate limit at which the SFP transceiver meets its specifications BR Min The lower bit rate limit at which the SFP transceiver meets its specifications Serial The serial number of the SFP Date Code The date the SFP was manufactured 129 A Syslog Serve
99. e client used to manage the HBA or CNA You can manage the software on the host or remotely from another host The communication between the management console and the agent is managed using JSON RPC over https The information in this guide is intended for OEMs field service personnel and customers who are installing Brocade hardware and HCM software NOTE All HCM utility SMI S Provider boot software and driver installation packages as well as the Driver Update Disk DUD are described in the Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 5 53 1001256 01 2 HCM features HCM features Common HBA and CNA management software features include the following e Discovery using the agent software running on the servers attached to the SAN which enables you to contact the devices in your SAN e Configuration management which enables you to configure local and remote systems With HCM you can configure the following items Local host e Brocade 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps HBAs e HBA ports including logical ports base ports remote ports and virtual ports e Brocade 10 Gbps single port and 10 Gbps dual port converged network adapters CNAs e CEE ports e FCoE ports CNA only e Ethernet ports CNA only Diagnostics which enables you to test the adapters and the devices to which they are connected e Link status of each adapter and its attached devices e Loopback test which i
100. e port logging level Values include Log Critical Log Error Log Warning and Log Info Target Rate Limit Indicates that target rate limiting is disabled because this feature is not supported on the FCoE port Default Rate Limit The default rate limit which is not applicable because target rate limiting is not supported on the FCoE port FC SP Parameters Authentication Indicates whether FC SP authentication is on or off Status The status of FC SP authentication Algorithm The configured authentication algorithm Group The DH group which is DH null group O which is the only option Error Status The health status of the Fibre Channel Security Protocol parameters Using the property panel Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Enabling and disabling rate limiting on the adapter side using the GUI Enabling and disabling rate limiting on the adapter side using the BCU e Configuring beaconing using the GUI e Configuring beaconing using the GUI Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 99 A FCoE Statistics dialog box CNA only FCoE Statistics dialog box CNA only The FCoE Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information related to the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE port Opening the dialog box 1 Select an FCoE port from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt FCoE Statist
101. e switch e Adaptive Networking AN license e Server Application Optimization SAO license To determine if these licenses are installed on the connected switch execute the Fabric OS licenseshow command Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator s Guide for detailed information about QoS Configuring QoS on the switch side using the BCU On the switch side you can create QoS zones using the PWWNS that correspond to devices in a source destination traffic flow You need a Server Application Optimization SAO license installed on the switch to enable QoS In addition an Adaptive Network AN license is required on the switch to enable QoS on the switch ports You enable or disable QoS settings on ports with the portCfgQos command Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator s Guide for details about this command on the switch side Configuring QoS on the HBA side using the BCU There are three possible QoS states e Enabled online QoS is established with the switch e Enabled offline QoS negotiation failed and QoS was not established with the switch Possible reasons for failure could be the license is not installed on the switch or QoS is not enabled on the port Disabled Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 29 53 1001256 01 4 30 Basic port configuration NOTE You must first enter the bcu port disable port id command followed by the bcu port enable port id command before the bcu qos enable Orbcu qos
102. ear the port s frame log portlogctl Enables or disables the portlog port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to enable or disable the portlog enable Enables the portlogclear command disable Disables the portlogclear command 162 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Example bcu debug portlog 10 0 time event port code args 08 35 28 430 fwm 10 0 00 00001234 08 35 28 431 mbox 10 0 01 00001234 08 35 28 433 ioctl 10 0 90 101d9910 0 08 35 28 433 Tx 10 0 164 O2fffffd 08 35 28 433 Rx 10 0 0 cOfffffd 08 35 28 433 Rx 10 0 164 O3fffffd 08 35 28 433 Tx 10 0 0 cOfffffd 08 35 28 433 ioctl 10 0 91 103646d8 08 35 28 466 ioctl 10 0 a7 36 1 08 35 28 483 Tx 10 0 96 O2fffffd 08 35 28 483 Rx 10 0 0 cOfffffd 08 35 28 483 Rx 10 0 96 O3fffffd 08 35 28 483 Tx 10 0 0 c0fffffd 08 35 28 483 ioctl 10 0 al 0 0 bcu debug portlogclear 1 0 portlog cleared bcu debug portlogctl 1 0 enable portlog enabled bcu debug portlogctl 1 0 disable portlog disabled bcu debug portlogctl 1 0 disable portlog disabled bfa supportsave Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Driver trace Done Fetching Firmware trace Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fetching Firmware trace Warning No saved firmware trace Done Fet
103. eckbox Check to create a pass through VLAN Using the dialog box 141 A VLAN configuration Edit a VLAN dialog box CNA only VLAN configuration Edit a VLAN dialog box CNA only The Edit VLAN dialog box allows you to edit an existing VLAN Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click the host and select VLAN Configuration from the list 3 Click Edit on the VLAN Configuration dialog box Fields and components Field Description Port MAC The media access control address of the Ethernet port VLAN ID text box The VLAN identifier VLAN Name text box The VLAN name Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e VLAN configuration e Adding a VLAN e VLAN configuration conflicts Editing a VLAN e Removing a VLAN 142 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 VLAN Statistics dialog box CNA only A VLAN Statistics dialog box CNA only The VLAN Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistics related to a selected virtual LAN NOTE If a PORT VLAN exists in the VLAN configuration you cannot perform any add delete or edit operations on any VLAN In addition you cannot view statistical information on any VLAN Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt
104. ection between two ports with confirmed delivery or notification of non deliverability Class 2 A class of service providing a frame switching service between two ports with confirmed delivery or notification of non deliverability Class F service A connectionless frame multiplexed service used between Fibre Channel E_Ports and B_Ports for coordination of the internal behavior of the fabric Class N service A generic reference to any class of service other than Class F CNA Converged Network Adapter Connection initiator The node port that initiates a Class 1 dedicated connection and receives a valid response Connection recipient The node port that receives a Class 1 dedicated connection request and transmits a valid response Credit Permission given by a receiving port to a sending port to send a specified number of frames DCB Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Glossary and acronyms D Data Center Bridging DCBX DCB Capability Exchange Protocol DCFM Data Center Fabric Manager Distributed Services Timeout Value D_S_TOV The maximum time that a requestor will wait for a response to an FC CT distributed services request Domain ID An eight bit value that identifies a domain ELM Ethernet Link Manager Error Detect Timeout Value E D TOV The minimum time that a node port waits for sequence completion before initiating recovery Fabric Port F Port A switch port that is no
105. edium bcu qos enable port id bcu qos disable sport id bcu qos query port id bcu qos stats port id bcu qos statsclr sport id Enables or disables Quality of Service QoS The QoS commands apply to the 8 Gbps HBA only QoS is not supported on the CNA enable Enables Quality of Service QoS port_id Specifies the ID of the port on which QoS is enabled disable Disables Quality of Service QoS port_id Specifies the ID of the port on which QoS is disabled query Queries the QoS details port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information stats Displays the QoS statistics port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display statistical information statsclr Clears the QoS statistics port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information bcu qos query 1 0 None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 ratelim HBA only B ratelim HBA only Enables or disables target rate limiting support on the HBA side NOTE The target rate limiting feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA Synopsis bcu ratelim enable lt port_id gt s lt default_speed gt bcu ratelim disable sport id bcu ratelim query port id bcu ratelim defspeed port id lt 1 2 4 gt Description The target rate limiting feature is used to minimize congestion at the HBA port due to a slow drain device opera
106. eee 58 Removing a host Server 1 eee else eere 59 Chapter 6 Diagnostics Ir thiis cHapter sie vel ois eth E a Se cV LATER 61 Related Diagnostic Documentation 00 eee eens 61 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the BCU 4 62 fcdiag comimands apa Mean hha aed 62 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI 00 63 Hardware level test parameters 0 cc eee 64 Running a Fibre Channel protocol level test using the GUI 65 Displaying test log details 0 0 0 eee eee 66 Ethernet diagnostics lessen 68 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 BeaboniNgi amang A KAANAK Acie NA dend Sova dave A ANNA 69 Configuring beaconing using the GUI 200 69 Configuring beaconing using the BCU 69 SFP Management cece eee eee 70 Displaying SFP information using the BCU 70 Displaying SFP information using the GUI 70 Debugging erp gen ee eg chante goce kde Wiens keen ale Sie 71 SUpportSav6 i eee Ae ee a Anda RUP ER ETE 72 supportSave collection sources 72 Appendix A HCM Dialog Boxes ItvthilS Section seu eb ed der race Rut i ee gar ade ear Baton miele 75 Authentication Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 77 Backup dialog box HBA and CNA eee eee ee eee 79 Base Port Properties panel HBA and CNA 80 CEE properties panel CNA on
107. efault user ID and password are Administrator and password After you log in for the first time you should change the default password to a new one using the HCM GUI Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 11 53 1001256 01 3 HCM software launch Launching the application on Linux platforms After installing the HCM software locate Brocade HCM on the Linux platform e f using a GNOME shell double click the BROCADE_FCHBA icon to launch the application e f using a KDE shell single click the BROCADE FCHBA icon to launch the application OR Start the application from the command prompt using the following commands susell6208 cd opt brocade fchba client susell6208 installed directory fchba client BROCADE FCHBA Launching the application on Solaris platforms After installing the HCM software you can launch the Brocade HCM application on the Solaris platform by double clicking on the BROCADE FCHBA icon OR Start the application from the command prompt using the following commands sun 1161904 cd installed directory gt fchba client sun 116190 BROCADE FCHBA Remember password The Login dialog has a check box to remember the password If you check the Remember password check box you do not need to enter the password the next time you launch the application Skip login Take one of the following actions to manage the Skip Login feature Enable Skip Login by checking the Skip L
108. eiver Media Speed in MBps Extended information Debugging Extended ID Encoding Baud rate Length 9u 50u 62 5u Cu Vendor name OUI part Revision Wavelength Options BR Max BR Min Serial number Date code The following debug commands capture all the support information needed to diagnose suspected system issues e portlog Displays the log of FC frames and other main control messages that were sent out and received e portlogclear Clears the port s frame log e portlogctl Enables or disables the portlog Refer to debug on page 162 for details about these commands Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 71 6 supportSave supportSave The supportSave command collects debug information needed from the driver The captured debug information can be saved to the local filesystem and then sent to the supplier for further investigation The information that is captured is detailed in Table 19 TABLE 19 supportSave categories supportSave level Captured information System or Host HCM GUl related engineering logs Events Configuration files Operating specific information Environment information Data xml file Vital CPU memory network resources HCM Agent logs configuration Driver logs bfa supportSave output Install logs Core files The default location to where supportSave output is saved is under the IP address of the host from which it was collected r
109. el Category _ Category MAIN O vw Cancel Help FIGURE22 Master Log Filter dialog box 3 Click Apply to save your changes or click Cancel to exit the window OR Click OK to save the changes and exit the window Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Application log 5 Application log The application log displays all application related informational and error messages as well as the following attributes Date and time the message occurred e Severity of the message Description of the message The agent IP address Clear Date Time v Severty Description Agent Host 0318 2009 10 31 31 A MAJOR SFP not found for port 22 AA AA 22 AA AA 22 22 hemvista E 03 18 2009 10 31 11 G INFO Start discovery hemvista 03 18 2009 10 30 30 G INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hemvista 03 18 2009 10 30 30 Gp INFO Discovery find new info for host hcmvista hemvista 03 18 2008 10 30 30 a MAJOR SFP not found for port 22 AA AA 22 AA AA 22 22 hemvista 03 18 2009 10 30 11 i INFO Start discovery hemvista 03 18 2009 10 29 30 Q INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hcmvista 03 18 2009 10 29 30 G INFO Discovery find new info for host hemvista hemvista 03 18 2009 10 29 30 A MAJOR SFP not found for port 22 AA AA 22 AA AA 22 22 hcmvista 03 18 2009 10 29 11 G INFO Start discovery hemvista 03 18 2009 10 28 31 QG INFO Non phased discovery completed successfully hemvista 03 18 200
110. elative to the HCM installation directory For example e HCM Installation DIR data 10 32 116 1 supportSave e C Program Files BROCADE FCHBA client data 10 32 116 1 supportSave supportSave collection sources Table 20 lists the sources from which you can gather supportSave information TABLE 20 supportSave collection sources Source of supportSave information supportSave information collected BFA based supportSave Driver related logs and config files Browser based supportSave Driver related logs and config files Agent log config files HCM based supportsave Agent log and config files HCM GUI log and config files 1 peu debug does not support the bcu debug supportsave command bfa supportsave however supports the following options bfa supportsave to create and save the supportsave at tmp e bfa supportsave dir to create and save the supportsave under dir bfa supportsave dir ss file name to create and save the supportsave under dir as the file name ss file name If ss file name already exists it will be overwritten 72 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 supportSave 6 Automatic statistics collection The port statistics log file is collected as part of the supportSave activity Port statistics collection occurs every eight hours and will be logged in to a rolling file under the 1og directory There are a maximum of five backup files and each file has a 100 KB size
111. eqno DCBX ackno DCBX recvd seqno DCBX recvd ackno Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 O O O NO N H N O N Bb O O O ON O O O N cee 161 B debug debug The debug commands gather support information on Fibre Channel components Synopsis bcu debug portlog lt port_id gt bcu debug portlogclear lt port_id gt bcu debug portlogetl port id enable disable bcu debug does not support the bcu debug supportsave command bfa supportsave however supports the following options bfa supportsave to create and save the supportsave at tmp e bfa supportsave dir to create and save the supportsave under dir e bfa supportsave dir ss file name to create and save the supportsave under dir as the file name ss file name If ss file name already exists it will be overwritten Description Captures all the support information needed to diagnose suspected system issues Operands portlog Displays the log of FC frames and other main control messages that were sent out and received If the port log is disabled the following message displays as the first line Refer to the portlogctl command for more information WARNING port log is disabled port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display the FC frame logs and other control messages portlogclear Clears the port s frame log port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to cl
112. er on the Host Connectivity Manager HCM and the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU and the HCM agent Ethernet Link Layer Driver OS support Table 2 lists the operating systems supported on the driver NOTE The Brocade Command Line Utility BCU is a standalone application that is installed as part of the driver package The BCU is used primarily for managing adapters installed on a local machine The BCU is supported across all operating system versions listed in Table 2 Supported drivers vary with the operating system being used For example for Windows the Storport miniport driver is supported there is no support for the SCSI miniport driver and for Solaris only the Leadville based driver is Supported TABLE 2 Ethernet Link Layer Driver operating system support Operating System x86 IA64 IEM64T AMD64 Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Yes No Yes Yes Requires SP2 plus Hotfix 932755 and KB943545 Windows Server 2008 Yes Yes Yes Yes Linux 2 6 kernel Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Yes No Yes Yes 10 1 10 2 Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 11 0 Yes No Yes Yes Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 6 4 7 Yes No Yes Yes Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 2 5 3 Yes No Yes Yes VMware ESX 3 5 U3 U4 Yes No Yes Yes 8 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Supported features 2 FCoE Driver OS support Table 3 lists the operating systems supported on the FCoE driver
113. er Log Event severities e Filtering event log entries Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 117 53 1001256 01 A Master Log Filter dialog box HBA and CNA Master Log Filter dialog box HBA and CNA The Master Log Filter dialog box enables you to filter the events you receive by time severity category or world wide name Opening the dialog box 1 Select the Master Log tab located at the bottom pane of the Host Connectivity Manager 2 Click the Filter button Fields and components Field Description Event Time Type in a From and To value to represent the time during which events will be logged Event Severity Select one or all of the following values Major Minor Critical Info Category Select an event category for example Rport or ITNIM from the list WWN MAC Select a world wide name WWN or media access control MAC address from the list Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Master Log Event severities e Filtering event log entries 118 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Persistent Binding dialog box HBA and CNA A Persistent Binding dialog box HBA and CNA The Persistent Binding dialog box enables target port world wide name binding to a persistent target ID for the OS stack You can view the Persistent Binding dialog box at the host level the CNA level or the port level Ope
114. erity column The event severity informational minor major or critical WWN MAC column The world wide name or the media access control MAC address of the device on which the event occurred Category column The event categories are as follows ADAPTER Events pertaining to the adapter CEE Events pertaining to Converged Enhanced Ethernet ETHPORT Events pertaining to the Ethernet port IOC Events pertaining to the IO Controller IP over FC Events pertaining to IP over Fibre Channel VLAN Events pertaining to a virtual LAN PORT Events pertaining to a physical port LPORT Events pertaining to a specific logical port one logical port always exists per physical port RPORT Events pertaining to a specific remote port could be an initiator or target ITNIM Events pertaining to an initiator target nexus RSVD Reserved AUDIT Audit events Subcategory column The subcategory of the main event for example offline online disabled or enabled Description column Displays a brief description of the event Date Time column The date and time when the event occurred Clear Filter button Refresh button 116 Click to clear the Master Log filter Click to refresh the screen Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Master Log tab HBA and CNA A Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Mast
115. ers Administrator s Guide 43 53 1001256 01 44 4 Name configuration 4 5 Select a device to highlight it and click the Remove button to remove the discovered device from the list The Remove button clears the names of the discovered WWN and the entire row of the detached undiscovered WWN Click OK to close the window Exporting the properties for a WWN You can export the properties for a world wide name in csv properties or txt file format 1 2 Select an HBA an HBA port a Virtual Port a CNA or a CEE port from the device tree Select Configure gt Names from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure gt Names The Configure Names dialog box displays Select one of the following from the Display list Current Host e 6AllWWNs e Only Nodes Only Ports e Only L Ports e OnlyV Ports e Only Remote Ports Click the Export button The Save dialog box displays You can save the properties file in txt csv or properties format Name the file and click Save Click OK to close the window Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Name configuration 4 Importing the properties fora WWN 1 5 6 Select Configure gt Names from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure Names The Configure Names dialog box displays Select one of the following from the
116. es Yes Interrupt Control Coalesce HBA only Yes Yes Interrupt Control Latency HBA only Yes Yes Interrupt Control Delay HBA only Yes Yes Opening the Advanced Port Configuration dialog box 1 Select an HBA port or FCoE port from the device tree 2 From the Host Connectivity Manager select Configure gt Port Configuration gt Advanced The Advanced Port Configuration dialog box displays s Advanced Port Configuration x Queue Depth o Interrupt Control Coalesce Off v Interrupt Control Latency 0 Interrupt Control Delay n Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 12 Advanced Port Configuration dialog box 38 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Advanced port configuration 4 Queue Depth configuration The queue depth is the number of I O operations that can be run in parallel on a device When the queue is full the drive refuses to accept any additional SCSI commands The device continues to refuse new commands until at least one command has been completed freeing up space in the queue Configuring the queue depth using the GUI 1 Select a port from the device tree e From the Host Connectivity Manager select Configure gt Advanced Port Configuration The Advanced Port Configuration dialog box displays OR e Right click a port and select Port Configuration gt Advanced 2 Set the queue depth a value that represents the number of parallel I O operations The valid queue depth ra
117. es panel HBA and CNA 200 0a 000 0 00002 eevee 80 CEE properties panel CNA only 2 cceea nies um e ERR RR RR AREA 81 CEE Port Properties panel GNA only sacaccacacnavacvasaetavacvenns 82 e CEE Statistics dialog box CNA only 2 20 ccec ecc Rm m hx 83 e Change HCM Password dialog box HBA and CNA llssusus 85 e Change HCM Agent dialog box HBA and CNA aaa 86 e Configure Names dialog box HBA and CNA ssslleelsssesss 89 Define Name dialog box HBA and CNA 20 cee eee eee 90 Duplicated Names dialog box HBA and CNA 0 0 0c eee eee 91 e Eth IOC Statistics dialog box CNA Only sie lee cien rl RR eee 92 Ethernet Port Properties panel CNA only aaa 93 e Eth Statistics dialog box CNA only sussosa sake ERSRATRETYARKRGESA ERG 94 Event Properties dialog box HBA and CNA aan 96 Fabric Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA aan 97 FCoE port properties CNA only 44 mapa xa kata tha Rh ERERRR UR RES 98 e FCoE Statistics dialog box CNA only 2 naaa c err RR eee es 100 e FCP IM Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA aan 101 FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 103 Fibre Channel Security Protocol dialog box HBA and CNA 105 Hardware Tests Diagnostics dialog box HBA and CNA 106 HBA Properties panel HBA only s accscautacaccasanveccncesaeacad 107 e IOC Stati
118. es supported are 0 1125 microseconds Setting the delay timeout value to O disables the latency monitor time out interrupt 3 Click OK N Port ID Virtualization NPIV enables a single Fibre Channel protocol port to appear as multiple distinct ports NPIV provides separate port identification within the fabric for each operating system image partition behind the port as if each operating system image had its own unique physical port Each NPIV device has a unique virtual port ID PID port WWN and node WWN The virtual port has the same properties as an N Port and is therefore capable of registering with all services of the fabric In other words multiple virtual devices emulated by NPIV appear no different than regular devices connected to a non NPIV port The maximum number of virtual PIDs for an N Port on a FC switch is 255 For a CEE switch the maximum number of V Ports is 64 NPIV is available at the physical port level or at the virtual fabric level If virtual fabric ports are detected then you cannot configure NPIV parameters at the physical port level If virtual fabric ports are deleted on the switch port side the NPIV parameters can then be configured at the physical port level No settings are available for V Ports from basic port configuration NOTE NPIV is not supported on Solaris platforms Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Name configuration 4 Name configuration The Host Connectivity Mana
119. est FIGURE27 Test Log Details for Echo Test dialog box m Test Log Details Lx Time Tue Oct OF 17 28 59 PDT 2008 Test FCTraceTest Status EXECUTING Name Value Port 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B7 Configuration Adapter 20 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B6 Logical port 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 B7 Remote port 21 00 00 20 37 B3 8D F8 Result executing the test ng FIGURE28 Test Log Details for FC trace test dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 67 53 1001256 01 6 Ethernet diagnostics Ethernet diagnostics 68 The Ethernet loopback test generates and sends out the desired number of packets and expects to receive the same number of packets through the loopback interface Serdes or external Each time a packet is sent it is selected from a different starting point of the data buffer so that any two consecutively transmitted packets will not be the same You must have the Ethernet card and the device driver installed and a loopback connector in place The loopback connector is a standard RJ 45 connector NOTE Windows 64 bit platforms only You must first create a VLAN on the port before you perform an Ethernet loopback test If the port does not have a VLAN an error message displays The following procedure explains how to run an Ethernet test 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the main menu OR Right click the component and select Diagnostics from the lis
120. et Retype Secret Retype the CHAP secret to confirm Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Configuring security authentication using the GUI Host and HBA Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA e Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 105 A Hardware Tests Diagnostics dialog box HBA and CNA Hardware Tests Diagnostics dialog box HBA and CNA The Port Tests diagnostics dialog box enables you to run tests on the port and to configure parameters such as link speed and frame count Opening the dialog box 1 Select an HBA CNA HBA port or CEE port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the Host Connectivity Manager 3 Click the Hardware Tests tab Fields and components Field Description Ports list Select a port from the list Memory Test check box Check to run a Memory test on the port PCI Loopback Test check box Check to run a PCI Loopback test on the port Data Pattern Type a data pattern The default value is A5A5A5A5 Test Cycle text box Specify the number of times the test runs The default value is 100 Loopback Test check box Check to run a Loopback test on the port Subtest ID list Select a subtest from the list The default is Internal Link Speed list Select a link speed fro
121. ettings Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 port port B Lists the port commands the physical ports on the CNA Synopsis bcu port list bcu port name port id port name bcu port enable sport id bcu port disable port id f bcu port stats port id bcu port statsclr sport id bcu port query port id bcu port topology port id auto p2p loop bcu port speed sport id lt speed gt bcu port dfsize port id lt dfsize gt Description Lists all the physical ports for a given port identifier Possible port identifiers could be any one of the following Adapter ID e PortID Port WWN Port name user assigned e Port hardware path Operands list name port id port name enable port_id disable port_id f Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Lists all the physical ports along with their basic attributes Queries or sets the port name You can clear the port name using an empty string Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Specifies a new name for the port The name can include up to 15 characters must begin with an alphabetic letter can consist of letters digits hyphens and underscore characters but no spaces Naming a port is optional if you do not specify a port name the current port name displays Enables the physical port if it is disabled Specifies
122. f hardware abstraction layer HAL task management firmware responses HAL TM Successes The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL task management successes HAL TM Failures Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL task management failures 101 A FCP IM statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Field Description HAL TM Related IO Cleanups The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL TM related I O cleanups HAL TM Firmware Queue Resumed The number of times the hardware abstraction layer HAL task management firmware queue is resumed HAL TM Affected by IOC Down Events The number of times hardware abstraction layer HAL task management is affected by IOC down events HAL TM Affected by ITN Offline The number of times hardware abstraction layer HAL task management is affected when ITN is offline HAL TM Offline Cleanup Completions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL task management offline cleanup completions HAL IO Requests The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL I O requests HAL IO Completions The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL I O completions Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA e Polling frequency rate e Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring 102 Brocade Adapter
123. fies the ID of the port for which you want to send a health check message pattern Displays the data pattern Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 165 53 1001256 01 B 166 diag Example loopback Sends a health check message from the host to the firmware through message queues memory mapped over the PCI This is an offline diagnostic test port id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to run a loopback test tsub test id Specifies the loopback test type Possible values are int internal loopback the default serdes SerDes loopback and ext external loopback If sub test id is not specified all loopback tests run s speed Specifies the link speed as auto negotiate c frame count Specifies the frame count p pattern Specifies the pattern must be one hex word memtest Performs a generic memory test using different algorithms port_id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to run a memory test queuetest Tests the CPE RME queue port id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to run a queuetest To display detailed information about a specific port bcu diag sfpshow 1 0 Identifier 3 SFP Connector 7 LC Transceiver 050c402000000000 100 200 MB s M5 M6 sw Inter dist Encoding 1 8B10B Baud Rate 21 units 100 megabaud Length 9u O units 100 meters Length 50u 30 units 10 meters Length 62 5u 15 units 10 meters Length Cu O units 1 meter Vendor Name BROCADE
124. figuration dialog box with PORT VLAN 000 0 eee eee eee 50 VLAN Configuration conflicts eee 50 Edit VLAN dialog box hr 51 Remove VLAN dialog DOX 1 eect tees 51 Reset Statistics warning 0 0 eee eene 54 Master Log Filter dialog box A 56 HCM Application LOB sss ewe Renee Nee IDRRR GRAE GAL APK ae a ek ae NG 57 Syslog Server Configuration dialog DOX 1 2 6 e eee eee 58 Diagnostics Port Tests dialog box 2 eee 63 Protocol level tests dialog DOX 2 ketene 65 Test Log Details for Echo Test dialog box a 67 Test Log Details for FC trace test dialog box eee 67 SEP PrOpertIES 2a AGA NANG BNG KIND ANAK aa eddie KUNG Rieck eee TO Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Tables Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 6 Table 7 Table 8 Table 9 Table 10 Table 11 Table 12 Table 13 Table 14 Table 15 Table 16 Table 17 Table 18 Table 19 Table 20 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HCM tree pop up menus 1 eee 7 Ethernet Link Layer Driver operating system support 8 FCoE driver operating system support 2 2 00 ee eee 9 Port node specific features 0 0 ce eee nee eae 9 OS specific features 0 ee eee ee een eens 10 HCM product ICONS ors eee ives wg aw Rade ene Godan OS Babe Se aa 17 Basic port configuration options 0 0 cee eee 24 Advanced port con
125. figuration options 00 0 cee eee eee 38 Statistics monitored by component 0 0c eee enne 53 Master kog flelds iustae aote sie naci in noa tache NAGANA ARA 55 HCM Master Log ICONS i a re eek eee eh ee ra Race ace E EUR RC aoe 55 Related diagnostic documentation llli lesen 61 Fibre Channel diag commands sseseseeeeeee eene 62 Fibre Channel diagnostic tests eee 62 Hardware level test parameters 0 0 eee eee eee 64 Test log detalls sien ee tnd NA KG RR Re RT Beas Baas NG 66 Ethernet Test parameters 00 ccc ssh eee 69 SFP management information 000 c eee eee eee 71 supportSave categories iiss ionas icas s ko a eee eee 72 supportSave collection sources 1 keene eee eee 72 xi Xii Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 About This Document In this section How this document is organized seccion ees eer terrm eer rece reas xiii Document CONYENILIGRS sues cue seme Rx nem RR slc Rs PERA RR RR RR RA xiv Notice to the read irs docs Rd EE FR ORE LEUR e ER PREIS oV XV e Additional informatiDhi 4 0x kA ace tra a XV CS eT urge m xvi Related doculmebntelori six xo e ER qa EE RREN FA ERROR WR dE dog ed xvi e Docutient TEGO DACK cu ran ea ee Era ECCE ORE ER ORTA OR ORE ECKE xvii How this document is organized This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as possible The doc
126. first time the Host Name list will contain only the Local host You must specify the Hostname or the IP address for discovering the remote servers Only previously discovered servers are available in the Host Name list Type the port number in the Port Number text box The default is 34568 Type in the user ID and password that will authenticate the SAN product with the agent The default user ID and password are admin password It is recommended you change the agent password on the host for security reasons NOTE Click the Remember Host check box if you do not want to type it in each time you set up discovery In the Polling Frequency Seconds text box specify the value for how frequently the application has to poll for newly discovered devices All parameters related to the adapters that are installed in that server are refreshed each time the poll occurs NOTE If the Keep Polling check box is checked polling occurs after the specified polling interval If the check box is not checked polling stops Click OK Logging off HCM End the HCM session using one of the following methods From the Host Connectivity Manager click File gt Exit Click the X in the upper right corner of the HCM window to close it Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 19 53 1001256 01 3 20 Logging off HCM Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Host Configuration Chapter 4 In this chapter Host
127. g the mouse on the KDE GUI on the Linux operating system If you use the tab key to enter any of the fields listed below you cannot exit the field without using the mouse The problem includes any of the following right pane properties Host gt Properties fields Host gt Adapter fields Adapter gt Properties fields Adapter gt Ports fields Port gt Properties fields Port gt LPORT fields Port gt SFP fields Port gt POM fields Base Port gt Properties Base Port gt Remote Properties Target gt Properties Target gt LUNs LUN gt Properties Master Log Details Application Log Details The Ctrl Tab combination is the default in KDE GUI on Linux platforms Therefore the Ctrl Tab combination is intercepted by the KDE shell To navigate HCM using the keyboard you must manually disable the Ctrl Tab shortcut Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 199 53 1001256 01 C HCM tab navigation 200 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Appendix Glossary and acronyms D Address assignment Address identifier Available BB_Credit A process whereby addresses are assigned to switches and switch ports A 24 bit address value used to uniquely identify the source S_ID and destination D_ID of Fibre Channel frames A value used by a transmitter to determine permission to transmit frames and if so how many The transmitter may transmit a frame when the available BB_Credit is greater t
128. ger allows you to configure names as a method of providing familiar simple names to world wide names for adapters ports virtual ports and remote ports in the SAN A logical port can be a base port or a virtual port Only unique names are allowed You can access the Configure Names dialog box by selecting an HBA an HBA port a Virtual Port a CNA or a CEE port from the device tree You can perform the following name tasks using either the Configure Names dialog or the Define Names dialog e Associate a name that represents an adapter port virtual port or remote port Note the following things about names e Among all adapters two cannot have duplicate names e Among all the ports two cannot have duplicate names e Aport and adapter can have the same name e You cannot associate a name for a storage device e Name changes on remote ports and virtual ports are sent to the properties file local to the HCM application but are not sent to the agent e Add a detached WWN and an associated name with Type and operational status as Unknown e Remove or disassociate a name from a WWN NOTE You can launch the Define Names dialog by right clicking an adapter port remote port or V Port Name validation Note the following when you define a name e The name cannot begin with a number e The name cannot begin with an underscore or hyphen however an underscore or hyphen character is allowed within the name for example
129. gid_ft_sent Description The number of times a Name Server Get all Port ID request for a given FC4 type is sent ns_gid_ft_accepts The number of times a Name Server Get all Port ID request for a given FC4 type is accepted ns gid ft rsp errors The number of response errors associated with a Name Server Get all Port ID request for a given FC4 type ns gid ft rejects The number of times a Name Server Get all Port ID request for a given FC4 type is rejected ns_gid_ft_unknown_rsp The number of unknown responses associated with a Name Server Get all Port ID request for a given FC4 type ns_gid_ft_alloc_wait The number of delayed Name Server Get all Port ID requests for a given FC4 type allocations ns_rejects The number of times a Name Server request is rejected ns_timeouts The number of Name Server timeouts ns_retries The number of Name Server retries num port ID rscns The number of Fibre Channel s Registered State Change Notifications by port ID Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate e Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring 114 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 LPORT Properties panel HBA and CNA A LPORT Properties panel HBA and CNA The LPORT Properties panel enables you to display the properties tha
130. ging HCM or the V_Ports deleted on Linux servers reboot you must first manually remove the V_Port s WWN from the Names dialog box in HCM If you do not manually remove the V_Port from HCM an error message displays that the V_Port already exists See Removing a name entry on page 43 for instructions Creating a Virtual Port You create virtual ports on HBA ports and FCoE ports only virtual ports are not supported on an adapter Virtual ports are not supported for VMware and Solaris agents 1 Select a physical HBA port or an FCoE port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Virtual Port gt Create from the main menu OR Right click the physical port and select Virtual Port Create from the list The Virtual Port Creation dialog box displays The following fields are system generated e Physical port world wide name e Virtual port world wide name This WWN must be unique e Virtual node world wide name The system returns the default node WWN which is the physical port node WWN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 35 53 1001256 01 36 4 Virtual Port configuration NOTE By default the Use auto generated check box is selected and the Generate Again button is enabled You can still edit the Virtual Port WWN field if Use auto generated is selected Virtual Port Creation ES Physical Port WAAN 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 CO Virtual Port VN 25 33 00 05 1E 53 08 C0 v Use auto generated Generate Again
131. guration Edit a VLAN dialog box CNA only 142 VLAN Statistics dialog box CNA only aa 143 Brocade Command Utility Irithis appendic sas usu metes Rex RN 145 About the BCU swig foe ie se ot ed eee A te be 146 BCU commands a a ma GA NA ee eee ee a ee ee ee 146 adapter sss veld Ae ee Pee a PARKE NA DUN HE haha 151 UCD sies Ri IA ANAL ede SUUS A ee dats 154 DIOS dore eec seed psc Vol oec e nca V rut oxide e ep te ee 157 boot HBA only enel e R9 eer x aret 159 COO ouo da ek a exa xx ee ees e aga ey 160 debug et wedded qur MP ea lect ae eka 162 diag ama M aaa E 165 drvcOonf csuila erp x eed de RET Rae RAE E REA one 168 ethdlag s igclI AR Os eel signi hh Sareea ts Bg 169 Quiere E 170 vii QUIPPC AA 171 ethipOlE ue b EUER UE epa Aakash 172 PANIC cre ec eec ete epoca det ace eta Ve ae RR see ta te 174 fedia AA 175 TODIM ee Se RE ae 2h es PCR ke a eee ee as 177 NOGA eos ONS RI 179 p IMP a era E na EA a a E aer AE TE a AE 181 IPON paaa etalon Goan gee a lene e ret aa ene ste died eed dedu 182 PDING EE E es DARE AIMER ED AA itas Pec 184 DOT uci onte toute oer uie Se dus atc teeth oe etn us 185 gos HBA only ud eer kom nre Rr nk ree REOR 190 ratelim HBA only 5 io eee exe Rx eR GD 191 DOIT c oo nic ER ERES shea vEExWAM A ERAI MAU ERA 192 Valls isses ccr ea cura PAA 195 VDO to lie ee eee enn ee epee hb ee eee eee ee eee he eee nee eee 197 Appendix C HCM Troubleshooting HCM tab navigation
132. h Brocade Fabric Switches through http www amazon com For additional Brocade documentation visit the Brocade Web site http www brocade com Release notes are available on the Brocade Connect Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric OS firmware Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide XV 53 1001256 01 Other industry resources For additional resource information visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site This Web site provides interface standards for high performance and mass storage applications for Fibre Channel storage management and other applications http www t11 org For information about the Fibre Channel industry visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association Web site http www fibrechannel org For information about the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE organization visit the IEEE Web site http standards ieee org Getting technical help Contact your adapter support supplier for hardware firmware and software support including product repairs and part ordering To expedite your call have the following information available e Adapter model e Adapter operating system version Error numbers and messages received e supportSave command output see debug on page 162 for details e Detailed description of the problem including the switch or fabric behavior immediately following the problem and specific questions Description of any troubleshooting steps already
133. han zero Available_receive_buffers The current number of buffers in a receiving port that are available for receiving frames at link rate Arbitration Wait Timeout Value AW_TOV Bandwidth Baud BCU Beaconing Bit error rate BER Block Bridge Port B_Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The minimum time that an L_Port waits while arbitrating before originating a loop initialization The maximum information carrying capacity of a system The encoded bit rate per second Brocade Command Line Utility BCU A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN Beaconing can occur either on the port or on one or both sides of the link known as end to end beaconing The probability that a transmitted bit will be received in error The bit error rate is expressed as the ratio of error bits to total number of bits Upper level application data assigned a single information category and transferred within a single sequence 201 D 202 Glossary and acronyms A fabric inter element port used to connect bridge devices with E Ports Byte A group of eight data bits CDM Common Diagnostic Model CEE Converged Enhanced Ethernet CIM Common Information Model CIMOM Common Information Model Object Manager Class of service A frame delivery scheme exhibiting a specified set of delivery characteristics and attributes Class 1 A class of service providing a dedicated conn
134. he Change HCM Agent Password dialog box displays Change HCM Agent Password Host Name 10 32 116 191 User Name admin Old password New password Confirm New password E Cancel Help FIGURE 3 Change HCM Agent password dialog box 2 Type the current password for the account The default user name and password are admin and password 3 Type the new password of the account The new password must have at least one character different from the old password 4 Retype the new password in the Confirm New password field Click OK NOTE Both the user name and passwords are case sensitive 14 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HCM software launch 3 Resetting a password or restoring a factory default password After a successful installation copy the data noitacitnehtua properties file to your personal folder so that in case the password is lost you can overwrite the noitacitnehtua properties file in the data folder with the local copy This restores the factory default user name Administrator and password password Backing up data after an uninstall If you uninstall the Brocade HCM software you are prompted to back up the application configuration data that was created during installation The following application configuration files are backed up in the data directory HBAApplication properties SetupDiscovery properties HbaAliasdb properties log4j xml noitacitnehtua propertie
135. ialog box The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL IOC down exception events Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA e Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 133 Test Log Details dialog box HBA and CNA Test Log Details dialog box HBA and CNA The Test Log Details dialog box enables you to view details about a selected port or protocol test Opening the dialog box 1 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the Host Connectivity Manager 2 Run any diagnostic test 3 Select and double click a row of the test results in the bottom pane Fields and components Field Description Time The date and time the test was run Test The name of the test Status The status of the test for example executing or pending Configuration The name of the test component and its corresponding value For example Adapter world wide name Data pattern Frame count e Port world wide name Result The test result for example test started or test complete Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Running a hardware level test using the GUI Running a Fibre Channel protocol level test using the GUI 134 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Virt
136. ics from the main menu OR Right click the FCoE port and select Statistics gt FCoE Statistics from the list The FCoE Statistics dialog at the host level displays Fields and components Field Description Keep Running Data checkbox Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the FCoE statistics Reset button Click to reset all of the statistics to O Date The date the FCoE statistics were run rx_packets The number of received packets tx_packets The number of transmitted packets rx_bytes The number of received bytes tx bytes The number of transmitted bytes 100 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 FCP IM Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A FCP IM Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The FCP IM Statistics dialog box enables you to display Fibre Channel Protocol Input Method FCP IM statistical information for initiators and targets Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Remote Port Statistics gt FCP IM Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a remote port from the device tree and select FCP IM Statistics Fields and components Field Description Date The date and time of the most recent reset R
137. imes logouts are accepted LOGO Failed The number of times logouts fail LOGO Rejected The number of times logouts are rejected Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 131 A 132 Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Field LOGO Received Description The number of times logouts are received HAL uninit Create Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL uninit create events HAL uninit Exception Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL uninit exception events HAL Created Online Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL created online events HAL Created Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL created delete events HAL Created IOC Down HAL Created Exception Events The number of times hardware abstraction layer HAL created 1 0 controllers were down The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL created exception events HAL fw Create f w Responses HAL fw Create Delete Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL firmware create responses The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL firmware created delete events HAL fw Create Offline Events The number of hardware abstraction layer HAL firmware created offline events HAL fw Create IOC Down The number of times hardware abstraction layer HAL firmware created I O controllers were down HAL fw Create Exception
138. inistrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 IOC Synopsis Description loc B Enables or disables the IO Controller IOC which refers to the combination of port and the firmware controlling it NOTE The Interrupt Control Coalesce feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA bcu ioc stats port id bcu ioc statsclr sport id bcu ioc enable sport id bcu ioc disable sport id bcu ioc query ioc id bcu ioc intr ioc id coalesce c gt on off Latency lt Delay gt The IOC commands allow you to enable or disable the IOC display the IOC statistics or clear the statistics A CAUTION Disabling the IOC is a destructive operation Operands stats port id statsclr port id enable port_id disable port_id query ioc id intr ioc id c coalesce latency Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Displays the IOC level statistics on the specified port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Clears the IOC level statistics on the specified port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Enables the IO Controller IOC If the IOC is already enabled the command is ignored Specifies the port of the IO Controller IOC you want to enable Caution Disabling the IOC is a destructive operation Disables the port of the IO Controller IOC If the I
139. inistrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Basic port configuration 4 Port speed Port speed is the maximum amount of data that can pass through the port at a given second The unit of measurement is in gigabits per second Gbps NOTE For the 10 Gbps CNA the only option is auto negotiate Configuring the port speed using the GUI 1 Select Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays Select a value from the Configured Speed list Speed options for the HBA are 1 Gbps 2 Gbps 4 Gbps and 8 Gbps The available speed options depend on the HBA s speed and the port s SFP Auto negotiate is the recommended setting and it is the default Click Apply to apply the changes A port disable enable configuration dialog displays confirming the configured speed which will take effect when the port is disabled or enabled Click Yes to continue or No to cancel the operation Click OK to close the window Configuring the port speed using the BCU Enter the following command to set the port speed bcu port speed lt port_id gt lt speed gt Refer to port on page 185 for details about this command Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 27 53 1001256 01 28 4 Basic port configuration Frame data field size Buffer credits determine the maximum amount of frame data If the number of buffer credits is not large enough to handle the link
140. is bcu fcpim stats lt port_id gt bcu fcpim statsclear lt port_id gt bcu fcpim qdepth lt port_id gt lt q_depth_value gt bcu fcpim query port id lt rpwwn gt l lt lpwwn gt bcu fcpim modstats port id bcu fcipim modstatsclr port id bcu fcpim pathtov port id tov Description Enables or disables fast failover of the Fibre Channel Port FCP initiator mode I O and displays or clears statistics NOTE The fcpim mpiomode command is not available on the Solaris operating system Operands stats port_id statsclr port_id qdepth port_id q_depth_value query port_id modstats port id modstatsclr port id pathtov port_id tov Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Displays statistics related to the Fibre Channel port initiator mode Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display statistical information Clears statistics related to the Fibre Channel port initiator mode Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Specifies the per target SCSI queue depth value Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to enable or disable the FCP initiator mode Specifies the queue depth value per target The maximum value is 1024 If O is specified no maximum limit is enforced Queries the fcpim attributes Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to query Displays statistics rel
141. key msix disable value range 0 1 default 1 key pbind enable value range 0 1 default O None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 ethdiag B ethdiag The Ethernet Port Loopback Test that tests the Ethernet data path from the host to Serdes or external loopback based on your selection Synopsis bcu ethdiag loopback port id t lt loopback_type c lt frame_count gt p pattern Description Runs the Ethernet diagnostic loopback test and indicates when the adapter is running at a normal operation state Operands loopback Runs the port loopback test You must disable the Ethernet port prior to executing the loopback test port_id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to run a loopback test t loopback type Specifies the loopback type Possible values are int serdes and ext c frame count Specifies the frame count p pattern Specifies the pattern must be one hex word See Also None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 169 53 1001256 01 B ethioc ethioc 170 Synopsis Description Operands Examples See Also Displays or clears Ethernet IOC statistics The port_id could be any of the following Adapter ID or port ID e Port name e Port hardware path bcu ethioc enable port id bcu ethioc disable port id bcu ethioc query port id bcu ethioc stats sport id bcu ethioc statsclr port id Enables or disables Ethernet IOC o
142. l gt Backup Data from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description Output Directory text box Enter the location of the directory in which you want to back up the data and configuration files Browse button Click to browse to the location of the backup directory Start Backup button Click to instruct the system to back up the data and configuration files to the designated location Close button Click to close and exit the Backup dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 79 A Base Port Properties panel HBA and CNA Base Port Properties panel HBA and CNA The Base Port Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with the base port Opening the properties panel 1 From the device tree select a base port 2 Inthe right pane click the Base Port Properties tab Fields and components Field Description Base Port The name of the base port FC Address The Fibre Channel address of the base port Node WWN The world wide name of the device Port WWN The world wide name of the base port Roles The role of the base port for example FCP Initiator State Indicates whether the base port is online or offline Switch NWWN The world wide name of the switch Switch IP Address The IP address of the switch Symbolic Name The symbolic name associated with the base port 80 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 100
143. lays 2 Select a value from the Port Logging Level list Supported values are Log Critical Log Error Log Warning and Log Info Click Apply to apply the changes Click OK to save the changes and close the window Configuring the port logging level using the BCU Enter the following command to set the logging level on the port bcu log level port id lt level gt m sfw ha1 fcs drv aen all gt Refer to log on page 181 for details about this command Ethernet logging level The number of messages logged by the host depends on the predetermined logging level Although the Ethernet port might generate many messages only certain types of messages are logged based on the specified logging level Configuring the Ethernet logging level using the GUI 1 Select an Ethernet port from the Host Connectivity Manager device tree 2 Select Configure Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 3 Select a value from the Eth Logging Level list Supported values are Log Critical Log Error Log Warning and Log Info 4 Click Apply to apply the changes Click OK to save the changes and close the window Configuring the Ethernt logging level using the BCU Enter the following command to set the logging level on the port bcu ethlog level sport id lt level gt Refer to ethlog on page 171 for details about this command Brocade Adapters Adm
144. le bcu port topology port id lt auto p2p loop gt e Shell mode accessed using the bcu shell for example bcu port topology port id auto p2plloop e To access the shell mode type bcu shell To exit out of shell mode type exit All the commands in this appendix are shown in the direct mode For example bcu port topology port id autol p2plloop To use the CLI help type the following command bcu help BCU commands 146 The following table alphabetically lists the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU commands that are available for configuring the devices in a SAN environment that use a Brocade CNA Command Operands Synopsis Help commands bcu help Lists all available sub commands bcu lt sub_command gt help Lists all details about the specific subcommand Adapter commands bcu adapter list name ad id adapter name query ad id enable lt ad_id gt disable lt ad_id gt Authentication commands bcu auth show lt port_id gt policy lt port_id gt lt on off gt algo lt port_id gt lt md5 sha1 ms sm gt secret lt port_id gt secret string stats lt port_id gt statsclr port id Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Boot commands BCU commands B boot over SAN commands apply to the 8 Gbps HBA only bcu boot blunZone c lt cfg gt p sport wwn r lt rport_wwn gt lu
145. lected small form factor pluggable SFP transceiver Displaying SFP information using the BCU Enter the following command to view the SFP information If the firmware detects a non Brocade SFP the port is disabled bcu diag sfpshow lt port_id gt Refer to diag on page 165 for details about this command Displaying SFP information using the GUI 1 Select a port in the device tree 2 Click the SFP tab in the right pane 3 The SFP Properties panel displays Help Properties LPORTs SFP POM Port Technology SFP Supported Connector Type Transceiver Media Speed True LC XFP 1Gb s 2Gb S 4Gb s 8Gb s Extended Information Identifier Encoding Baud Rate Length Su Length Su Length 50u Length 62 5u Length Cu Vendor Name Vendor OUI Vendor Part Revision Wavelength Options BR Max BR Min Serial Date Code FIGURE 29 Details about the port technology and extended link are described in Table 18 70 2 8B10B 85 units 100 megabaud O units km O units 100 meters 5 units 10 meters 2 units 10 meters O units 1 meter BROCADE 00 05 1e part01 01 5203 units nm 003a Rx LOSTX FAULT TX DISABLE RATE SELECT o O A10 1147 2007 SFP Properties Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 TABLE 18 SFP management information SFP category Port technology Debugging 6 SFP information displayed SFP supported Connector type Transc
146. list Fields and components Field Description WWN MAC The world wide name for the device Name Enter a meaningful name for the device Type Select the type of device from the list for example Node or Port Description Enter a description of the device Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Name configuration e Adding name entries e Removing a name entry e Exporting the properties for a WWN Importing the properties for a WWN 90 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Duplicated Names dialog box HBA and CNA A Duplicated Names dialog box HBA and CNA The Duplicated Names dialog box enables you to display configured names that are redundant Opening the dialog box 1 2 Select Configure Names from the Host Connectivity Manager Click Fix Duplicates Fields and components Field Description Append incremental numbers for all Click to automatically add an incremental number to a duplicate repetitive names button name will fix them myself button Click if you want to manually fix a duplicate name Name The port number with which the duplicated name is associated WWN The world wide name with which the duplicated name is associated Operational Status The operational status of the duplicate WWN for example Discovered Description A description of the duplicate name Using the dialog
147. ly 00 e ee eee eee eee 81 CEE Port Properties panel CNA only eee eee 82 CEE Statistics dialog box CNA only 0c eee eee eee 83 Change HCM Password dialog box HBA and CNA 85 Change HCM Agent dialog box HBA and CNA 86 CNA Properties panel CNA only 0c eee eee eee eee 87 Configure Names dialog box HBA and CNA 05 89 Define Name dialog box HBA and CNA 000e ee eee 90 Duplicated Names dialog box HBA and CNA 91 Eth IOC Statistics dialog box CNA only 05000e eee eee 92 Ethernet Port Properties panel CNA only llsssus 93 Eth Statistics dialog box CNA only lssesleleelesssns 94 Event Properties dialog box HBA and CNA 00 96 Fabric Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA llsssss 97 FCoE port properties CNA only lle lesen 98 FCoE Statistics dialog box CNA only lslslselssss 100 FCP IM Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA lssuse 101 FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 103 Fibre Channel Security Protocol dialog box HBA and CNA 105 Hardware Tests Diagnostics dialog box HBA and CNA 106 HBA Properties panel HBA only eee eee eee 107 IOC Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 0200 eee 109 LLDP Properties panel CNA only eee eee eee 112 Logical Port Statistics
148. m the list Frame Count Type a frame count The default value is 8192 Stop on Error check box Check to flag the system to stop running the test if an error occurs Test Log table Displays the time the test was run the status of the test and the result of the test Start button Click to run the selected test Stop button Click to stop all pending tests Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Configuring beaconing using the GUI Displaying SFP information using the BCU e supportSave collection sources 106 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HBA Properties panel HBA only A HBA Properties panel HBA only The HBA Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected 4 Gbps or 8 Gbps Brocade HBA Opening the properties panel 1 Select an HBA in the device tree 2 Click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field HBA Parameters Description Node WWN The adapter s world wide name Name The name representing the adapter Operating Status Whether the HBA is enabled or disabled Manufacturer The company that manufactured the HBA Model Description The description of the HBA Max speed supported The maximum speed supported on the HBA for example 8 Gbps OEM info Information about the original equipment manufacturer
149. mand Specifies the remote port world wide name on which you want to run the fcecho diagnostic test Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument The base port is specified as 0 otherwise the port is a virtual port Blinks toggles the link beacon Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to run the linkbeacon command Specifies if the linkbeacon test is on or off Tests the SCSI components Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to run the scsitest command Specifies the remote port world wide name Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument The base port is specified as 0 otherwise the port is a virtual port 175 B 176 fcdiag Examples See Also bcu fcdiag fctraceroute 2 0 50 05 07 63 04 13 46 eb Error Reject from attached fabric bcu fcdiag fctraceroute 2 0 50 05 07 63 04 13 46 eb FC Traceroute completed successfully Path Info Switch WWN Switch DomainID Ingress Port Egress Port 10 00 08 00 88 03 31 8b 127 5 11 10 00 08 00 88 03 31 8b 127 11 5 bcu fcdiag fctraceroute 2 0 50 05 07 63 04 13 46 e1 FC Traceroute Failed Reason Destination Port bcu fcdiag fcecho 2 0 50 05 07 63 04 13 46 eb FC ECHO completed successfully diag not in Fabric Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 fcpim fcpim B Enables or disables fast failover of initiator mode I O The default setting is off Synops
150. mber of status up events on the physical port of the CNA CEE Received Invalid Configurations The number of invalid configurations events received on the physical port of the CNA 84 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Change HCM Password dialog box HBA and CNA Change HCM Password dialog box HBA and CNA The Change HCM Password dialog box enables you to change an existing password for the application Opening the dialog box Select Configure gt Change HCM Password from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components A Field Description User Name Type your user name Old password Type your existing password New password Type a new password Confirm New password Confirm your new password by retyping it Using the dialog box Refer to the following topic for specific procedures using this dialog box e Changing an HCM application password Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 85 Change HCM Agent dialog box HBA and CNA Change HCM Agent dialog box HBA and CNA The Change HCM Agent Password dialog box enables you to change an existing password for the host Opening the dialog box Select Configure gt Change Password gt Change Agent Password from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description Host Name Displays the IP address of the host User Name Type your user name Old password Type your existing pas
151. ministrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Chapter Diagnostics 6 In this chapter Fibre Channel diagnostics using the BCU occ cece ee nha nnn 62 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI 02 02 eee ee eee 63 BEACONS A ata agua heres Heed RE RDERDURI SERRE KA SERE RT EE 69 SPI RIS EIU iaa autre ax aie bene sid ape ab here tu CERE Rara id x enia TO DODUSSBIWE ocsaepesrardPriRENARREGOAREA Ga cR a ACE RA RERO a Y Rd 71 SUP POS aUe aaa ABA BANA KG BAG P EREERIPRUAPEREKRE TERES NAR ees 72 Related Diagnostic Documentation The information in this chapter is specific to commands that support the adapter You can run diagnostics using the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU or the Host Connectivity Manager HCM GUI For more information refer to the documentation listed in Table 12 TABLE 12 Related diagnostic documentation Part Number Document Title 53 1001254 01 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual Supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 Supporting HBA models 415 425 815 825 53 1001253 01 Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide Supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 Supporting HBA models 415 425 815 825 53 1001336 01 Fabric OS Administrator s Guide supporting Fabric OS v6 3 0 53 1001340 01 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide supporting Fabric OS v6 3 0 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 61 53 1001256 01 6 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the BCU Fibre Chan
152. mware port has occurred The number of times the target I O aborts timed_out_cnt The number of times the target I O times out under run cnt The number of I O underruns unexp bad fcp rsp The number of unexpected frames on the firmware I O that resulted in a bad response unexp_frame_recv_cnt The number of received unexpected frames on the firmware 1 0 unexp good fcp rsp unknown reqs Using the dialog box The number of unexpected frames on the firmware I O that resulted in a good response The number of unknown requests on the firmware 1 0 Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 111 53 1001256 01 A LLDP Properties panel CNA only LLDP Properties panel CNA only The LLDP Properties panel enables you to display the link layer properties that are associated with the selected converged network adapter CNA both locally and remotely 112 Opening the properties panel 1 Select a CNA in the device tree 2 Click the LLDP tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Chassis ID Description The MAC address associated with the local system Port Description The user configured port description Port ID The port identification associated with
153. n as needed 4 Click OK Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Name configuration 4 Adding name entries You can add up to 2000 names which are then stored in the HbaAliasdb properties file The entries persist during reboot The WWN types are as follows Node Port Remote Port V Port Dual Role port type that acts as initiator and target Unknown Select an HBA an HBA port a Virtual Port a CNA or a CEE port from the device tree Select Configure Names from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure Names Type a name that represents an adapter port or storage device into the Name text box Type a valid WWN that corresponds to the name Click OK to close the window The new component is added to the Name list Removing a name entry The Remove functionality clears the name and description values of a selected detached WWN 1 Select an HBA an HBA port a Virtual Port a CNA or a CEE port from the device tree 2 Select Configure Names from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a device from the device tree and select Configure Names The Configure Names dialog box displays all the names available at the host 3 Select one of the following from the Display list e Current Host e AllWWNs e Only Nodes e Only Ports e OnlyV Ports e Only Remote Ports A list of names for the devices you selected displays Brocade Adapt
154. n Log 3 Master Log Filter None Clear Filter Refresh Sr No v Severity wem Category Sub Cat Description 36 amp MNOR 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 PORT Unhealthy SFP POM level to Red port 0 VWWNMAC 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 a 35 A MINOR 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 PORT Online Base port online VWN 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 34 A INFO 00 05 1E 55 33 53 VLAN Added Base port ethernet linkup mac 00 05 1E 55 33 53 133 G INFO 00 05 1E 55 33 53 VLAN Deleted Base port ethernet interface enabled mac 00 05 1E 55 33 53 1 B2 G INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 IOC Enabled IOC 1 is enabled 131 G INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 IOC Enabled IOC 0 is enabled 1 so G INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 IOC Enabled OC 1 is enabled 29 QG INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 IOC Enabled OC 0 is enabled 28 G INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 IOC Disabled 10C 1 is disabled aT Q INFO 00 05 1E 55 33 53 VLAN Base port ethernet interface disabled mac 00 05 1E 55 33 53 26 N INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 IOC Disabled OC 1 is disabled 25 G INFO 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 IOC Disabled IOC O is disabled 24 ap INFO 00 05 1E 55 33 53 VLAN Added Base port ethernet linkup mac 00 05 1E 55 33 53 p23 Q INFO 00 05 1E 55 33 53 VLAN Deleted Base port ethernet interface enabled mac 00 05 1E 55 33 53 E CP vum PIT User admin Agent 10 32 116 222 Port 34568 Last Updated Fri May 01 10 09 01 MDT 2009 1 Menu bar 2 Device tree window 3 Master Log 4 O
155. n id lun gt upload adapter_id lt image_file gt a Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE commands bcu cee query lt port_id gt stats lt port_id gt statsclr port id Debug commands bcu debug portlog port id portlogclear lt port_id gt portlogctl lt port_id gt lt enable disable gt Diagnostic commands bcu diag sfpshow port id tempshow lt ad_id gt beacon lt port_id gt on off lt duration gt pciloopback lt port_id gt p lt pattern gt c lt frame_count gt loopback lt port_id gt t lt loopback_type gt s lt speed gt c lt frame_count gt p lt pattern gt memtest ad id queuetest port id Windows driver configuration commands bcu drvconf key key name val lt value gt Possible key_name and value ranges are key bfa_ioc_queue_depth value range gt 0 default 2048 key bfa_lun_queue_depth value range gt 0 default 32 key ioc auto recover value range 0 1 default 1 key rport_del_timeout value range 50 default 90 key msix_disable value range 0 1 default 1 Ethernet diagnostic commands bcu ethdiag loopback lt port_id gt t lt loopback type gt c lt frame_count gt p pattern Ethernet IOC commands bcu ethioc enable lt port_id gt disable lt port_id gt stats port id statsclr port id
156. n select Import 2 Navigate to the location of the properties file from which you will import properties for the selected device The format appears as follows Names Export File V 1 0 DO NOT DELETE MOVE MODIFY THIS LINE For each row in the file the name should be followed by an Column Format WWN Name Type Description FM Names file Format Delimiter HERE EEE HEE HEE EE HE HEE HE HE HEE HH E E E HEE HE E E E HEE HE E E E HEE HE EE EEE HEE EE HH 200000051e536b20 s Node 200000051e536b43 bfa0 Node 100000051e536b20 a Port 100000051e536b44 bfa0 port1 Port 100000051e536b43 bfa0 port0 Port Adding a name and a WWN 3 Click OK DCFM support for FCoE The converged network adapter CNA is supported in the Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM version 10 3 DCFM 10 3 supports the following FCoE features e Virtual LANs VLANs e Converged Enhanced Ethernet CEE switches and ports e CEE maps Link Layer Discovery Protocol Data Center Bridging Exchange LLDP DCBX profiles Access control lists e Spanning tree protocol e 802 1x authentication e FCoE login groups e Virtual ports and trunks Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Name configuration 4 Importing duplicated names The Duplicated Names dialog box displays when you import a file with a duplicate name 1 Select Configure gt Names from the Host Conne
157. n the port and displays and clears Ethernet IOC statistics enable Enables the Ethernet IOC if it is currently disabled port id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port you want to enable disable Disables the Ethernet IOC if it is currently enabled port_id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port you want to disable query Queries the attributes of the Ethernet IOC port_id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port you want to query stats Displays the Ethernet IOC statistics port id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port for which you will display the statistics statsclr Clears the Ethernet IOC level statistics port_id Specifies the ID of the Ethernet port for which you will reset the statistics bcu ethioc stats 1 0 IOC host statistics mailbox interrupts 40771 enable events 1 disable events 0 heartbeat failures 0 firmware boots 0 stats timeouts 0 bcu ethioc statsclr 1 0 Successfully reset the ioc level stats None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 ethlog ethlog B Sets the log level for each Ethernet driver The port_id could be any of the following Adapter ID or port ID e Port name e Port hardware path Synopsis bcu ethlog level sport id lt level gt Description The number of messages logged by the host depends on the predetermined logging level Although the CNA might generate many messages only certain types of messages are logged based on the specified logging level
158. nel diagnostics using the BCU The purpose of diagnostic commands is to evaluate the integrity of the system hardware Be sure to disable the port before running any type of port diagnostics In addition it is advisable that you do not perform other operations on the adapter while running HCM or BCU diagnostics diag commands The diag commands shown in Table 13 monitor hardware components and can be performed while the system is running they are non disruptive TABLE 13 Fibre Channel diag commands Command Description beacon Blinks the appropriate port LED for physical identification Beaconing can occur at the port or the link level loopback Sends a health check message from the host to firmware through mes sage queues that are memory mapped over the PCI memtest Tests the adapter s memory blocks pciloopback Checks the communication path between the host and the IO Controller IOC queuetest Tests the CPE RME queue sfpshow Displays small form factor pluggable SFP information tempshow Displays the temperature of the adapter Refer to diag on page 165 for details about this command fcdiag commands Fibre Channel diagnostics include the tests shown in Table 14 TABLE 14 Fibre Channel diagnostic tests Command Description fcping Determines the basic connectivity between the Fibre Channel network points and monitors and measures network latency fctraceroute Reports on a SAN pa
159. nfiguring the HCM logging level using the GUI 37 Advanced port configuration saaana eeann 38 Opening the Advanced Port Configuration dialog box 38 Queue Depth configuration a 39 NPIM cia es oe PA Eales 40 Name configuration Ie 41 Name validation rues Re RUD Rente i 41 Editing the name fields eee eee eee 42 Adding name entries 0 0 0 0 cee eee 43 Removing a name entry 0 0 cece ee eee eee 43 Exporting the properties fora WWN aa 44 Importing the properties for a WWN a 45 DCFM support for FCoE c eee ee 46 Importing duplicated names cee eee 47 VLAN configuration 0 0 0 eee 48 Adding a VLAN 2 aa a eva x ee ee ee ee E 48 VLAN configuration conflicts s eassa 0 cee eee ee eee 50 Editing a VLAN n sine eee needa ERG pews Pete PING 50 Removing a VEAN nessen Rh AA 51 Chapter 5 Monitoring In this chapter cede e ec DALA ee RR REG 53 Performance monitoring 0 cee eee 53 Polling frequency rate 0 ee 54 Resetting statistics ec leno Rex b o DUNG PERS 54 Master Log ir AGANG Tad erus Role ripe RB ab en 55 Event severities esis sese mee rk mk acr ee E sk ced n 55 Filtering event log entries a 56 Applicationilog aasa a had hada Rete Rete ecu 57 Syslog support enne Soret ete ee ee ee 58 Opening the Syslog Server Configuration dialog box 58 Registering a host server eee
160. nge is 0 2000 3 Click OK Configuring the queue depth using the BCU Enter the following command to set the queue depth bcu fcpim qdepth port id q depth value Refer to fcpim on page 177 for details about this command Interrupt Control Coalesce NOTE The Interrupt Control Coalesce feature is not supported on the converged network adapter CNA Interrupt control coalescing allows the system to change CPU utilization by varying the number of interrupts generated Increasing the latency monitor timeout value should result in a lower interrupt count and less CPU utilization which may result in higher throughput Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 39 53 1001256 01 4 NPIV 40 NPIV Configuring the Interrupt Control Coalesce using the GUI HBA only 1 Select a port from the device tree e From the Host Connectivity Manager select Configure gt Advanced Port Configuration The Advanced Port Configuration dialog box displays OR e Right click a port and select Port Configuration gt Advanced 2 Setthe latency and delay values e Select On from the Interrupt Control Coalesce list e Specify the latency monitor timeout value in microseconds if coalesce is set to on Latency timeout values supported are 0 225 microseconds Setting the latency timeout value to O disables the latency monitor time out interrupt e Specify the delay timeout value in microseconds if coalesce is set to on Delay timeout valu
161. ning the dialog box 1 Select a device that supports persistent binding from the device tree Devices that support persistent binding include the local host the HBA CNA CEE port and the FCoE port 2 Select Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manaager 3 Click the Enable Persistent Binding check box Persistent Binding is enabled 4 Select Configure gt Persistent Binding Fields and components Field At the host or CNA level Description Serial Number The serial number of the CNA Port The port number of the CNA Port WWN The port s world wide name Name The port name for example Port O or Port 1 Persistent Type The type of binding for example Port WWN Target Name Remote Port WWN The SCSI target name The world wide name of the remote port SCSI Target ID The SCSI target identifier At the port level HBA or CNA Node The world wide node name of the HBA or CNA node HBA or CEE port The world wide name of the HBA or CEE port Persistent type The type of binding for example Port WWN Target Name The SCSI target name Remote Port WWN The world wide name of the remote port SCSI Target ID The SCSI target identifier Using the dialog box Refer to the following topic for specific procedures using this dialog box e Basic port configuration Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 1
162. nitoring statistics 6 MPIO specifying using the BCU 30 specifying using the GUI 30 N name configuration 41 nickname association tasks 41 NPIV configuration 40 0 operating systems support for 8 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 operating system specific features 9 P panel HBA Properties 87 107 Port POM 120 Port SFP 128 Port Statistics 123 remote port properties 115 127 password how to change 13 14 how to reset 15 path time out specifying using the BCU 31 specifying using the GUI 31 persistent binding configuring using the BCU 29 configuring using the GUI 28 Persistent Binding dialog box 119 persistent binding configuring 28 polling frequency rate control 54 port command 185 port configuration advanced 38 basic options 24 opening the advanced dialog box 38 opening the basic dialog box 25 port speed 27 port logging level configuring using the BCU 26 configuring using the GUI 26 Port POM panel 120 port properties panel 82 121 Port SFP panel 128 port speed configuring using the BCU 27 configuring using the GUI 27 Port Statistics panel 123 port test diagnostics 106 port level diagnostic tests running from GUI 65 port level test how to run using the GUI 63 portlog command 71 portlogclear command 71 portlogct command 71 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 properties CEE 83 importing in EFCM format 4
163. nline help 5 System information 6 Context view FIGURE 4 16 Host Connectivity Manager main window Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 HCM product icons HCM product icons 3 On the left side of the Host Connectivity Manager there is a navigation tree for representing the managed host with adapters and ports Each tree node has an icon to represent the type of node If the operational status is offline link down or error a small red diamond appears on the upper right corner of the icon Table 6 shows the product icons that represent the components that HCM manages TABLE 6 HCM product icons Host agent up Remote Port Initiator Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 a online Host agent down KI Remote Port Initiator g HBA online F Remote Port Target il HBA offline o Remote Port Target if CNA onli LUN ine P CNA CNA offline Ethernet Port AMT a m CNA Port with SFP link up Base Port link up fr w Port with SFP link Base Port link down down E B Port without SFP link Virtual Port online up isi Port without SFP link Virtual Port offline down ge INI FCoE Port m 17 3 Discovery Discovery Discovery enables you to contact the adapters present in a specified host in your SAN The setup discovery profile is saved in the SetupDiscovery properties file to remember the history of each ho
164. ns oo Oo O OO OO OO DO D O DOO HO OO OF Oo 0 OF CO oO DO NO OO ior statsclr 1 0 aa bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 reset the rport level stats Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 vian vian B Lists the commands that apply to an Ethernet virtual LAN Windows only The port ID can be either the adapter ID or the port ID Synopsis bcu vlan add sport id vlan id lt vian_name gt bcu vlan remove vlan id sport id bcu vlan edit sport id svlan id new vlan name bcu vlan list port id bcu vlan query lt port_id gt lt vlan_id gt Description Configures a VLAN on a port Operands add port_id vlan_id vlan_name remove port_id vlan_id edit port id vlan id Configures a new VLAN on the port Specifies the Ethernet port associated with the VLAN Specifies the VLAN identifier The range for the VLAN ID is 1 to 4049 Specifies the VLAN name The VLAN name must not exceed 31 characters Removes a VLAN configuration from a port Specifies the Ethernet port associated with the VLAN Specifies the VLAN identifier The range for the VLAN ID is 1 to 4049 Modifies the VLAN configuration on a port Specifies the Ethernet port associated with the VLAN Specifies the VLAN identifier The range for the VLAN ID is 1 to 4049 new vlan name Specifies the new VLAN name The VLAN name must not exceed 31 list port id query port id vlan id Brocade Adapters Administrat
165. number of Linux Netlf queue wakups Ts04 Total number of Linux TSO IPv4 packets Ts06 Total number of Linux TSO IPv6 packets Tso Errors Total number of Linux errors Tcpsum offload Total number of TCP checksum offloads Udpcsum offload Csum help Total number of UDP checksum offloads Total number of checksum help requests Csum help error Total number of checksum help errors HW stats updates Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Total number of hardware statistics updates 95 A Event Properties dialog box HBA and CNA Event Properties dialog box HBA and CNA 96 The Event Properties dialog box displays the properties associated with a selected event from the Master Log Opening the dialog box 1 Click the Master Log tab located on the bottom pane of the Host Connectivity Manager A master summary of events on all discovered devices is displayed 2 Double click an event Fields and components Field Description Date Time The date when the event occurred Time The time when the event occurred Severity The event severity informational minor major or critical WWN MAC The world wide name WWN or media access control MAC of the device on which the event occurred Event ID An identifier that corresponds to the event Category The category of event for example Rport or ITNIM Description A brief description of the event Root C
166. of transmitted DH CHAP challenge attempts Tx DHCHAP Replies The number of transmitted DH CHAP replies Tx DHCHAP Successes The number of times a transmitted Fibre Channel authentication attempt was successful Rx Auth Rjts The number of rejected received Fibre Channel authentication attempts Rx Auth Negs The number of received Fibre Channel authentication negotiation attempts Rx Auth Dones Rx DHCHAP Challenges The number of completed received Fibre Channel authentication attempts The number of received DH CHAP challenge attempts Rx DHCHAP Replies The number of received DH CHAP replies Rx DHCHAP Successes Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of times a received DH CHAP challenge was successful 77 78 A Authentication Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Configuring security authentication using the GUI Host and HBA Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Backup dialog box HBA and CNA A Backup dialog box HBA and CNA The Backup dialog box allows you to create a backup of data and configuration files Opening the dialog box Select any device from the device tree and select Too
167. ogin Dialog check box If the Skip Login check box is checked it automatically disables the Remember password option e Disable Skip Login by setting hba application skip login falseinthe data HBAApplication properties file e Select the Skip Login check box if you do not want the Login dialog box to appear the next time the application is started Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 HCM software launch 3 Changing an HCM application password You can change the default password of the application to a different password using the Change HCM Password dialog Note the following when you change a password You must validate your user identity by supplying your old password before you can change to a new password The new password must be different than the old password The password can begin with an alphabetic numeric or special character The default minimum and maximum length of the password is 8 and 64 characters You can configure the password length in the HBAApplication properties file min chars for the application password password_min 8 max chars for the application password password_max 64 The password is encrypted and stored in the noitacitnehtua properties file From the Host Connectivity Manager select Configure Change Password Change Password for HCM User The Change HCM Password dialog box displays a Change Password for HCM User x User Name Administrator Old password B
168. onse errors logo_unknown_rsp The number of unknown logout occurrences logo_alloc_waits The number of delayed logout allocations fab_no_npiv Indicates if there is no NPIV support fab_offline The number of fabrics that are offline fab_online The number of fabrics that are online fab_cleanup The number of fabric cleanups Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Virtual Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate e Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 139 53 1001256 01 VIAN Configuration dialog box CNA only VLAN Configuration dialog box CNA only The VLAN Configuration dialog box enables you to create a logical work group consisting of up to 64 VLANs You can also add edit or remove VLANs using the VLAN Configuration dialog box Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click the host and select VLAN Configuration from the list The VLAN Configuration dialog displays Fields and components Field Description VLAN ID Displays a list of configured VLAN identifiers VLAN Name Displays a list of configured VLAN names Add b
169. oor Guangzhou China Tel 8620 3891 2000 Fax 8620 3891 2111 E mail china info brocade com Document History Title Publication number Summary of changes Date Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 New document June 2009 Supporting CNA models BR 1010 BR 1020 Supporting HBA models 415 425 815 825 Contents About This Document Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 In this section ss soia ee RR RR un xiii How this document is organized saasaa naaa xiii Document conventions 000 cece ee nnns xiv Text formatting xung xeu rd a eaten eae eni n sie xiv Notes cautions and warnings llis eeseeesss xiv Key terms i sga side wa a a ee y ee red ete somone dean XV Notice to the reader leslie XV Additional information 000 cee eee eee XV Brocade r SOUICES 1 eens XV Other industry resources 2 kee xvi Getting technical help 0 cece eee eee xvi Related documentation 00 0c cece eee eee eee xvi Document feedback 0c cc nnn xvii Fibre Channel over Ethernet ICIS chapter ur cen nte mien a UY n Rr edd Xe ge 1 FCoE overview Em 1 DCB exchange protocol cece eee ee eee 1 BANA iius nie Richie Ree Rx Ra ae Rx ar ace AM ae Y Sede Sh 2 Enhanced Ethernet features cee eee eee eee 2 Enhanced transmission selection 000eee eee 2 Priori
170. or s Guide 53 1001256 01 characters Lists the configured VLANs on the port Specifies the Ethernet port associated with the VLAN Queries the VLAN information on the port Specifies the Ethernet port associated with the VLAN Specifies the VLAN identifier The range for the VLAN ID is 1 to 4049 195 B vian Examples bcu vlan list 1 0 Vian id Vlan Name 1 VLANOOO1 3000 VLAN3000 bcu vlan query 1 vlan id 1 vlan name VLANOOO1 vlan statistics Tx Bytes 200 Rx Bytes 100 Duration 2 30 32 Hr Min sec rolls up and shows days also Status Connected See Also None 196 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 vport vport B Lists the commands that apply to a virtual port Synopsis bcu vport create port id lt vpwwn gt n lt nwwn gt s lt sname gt bcu vport delete port id lt vpwwn gt bcu vport query port id lt vpwwn gt bcu vport stats port id lt vpwwn gt bcu vport statsclr port id vpwwn Description NOTE The vport commands enable you to create and delete vports and display statistics about them The vport commands are not supported on Solaris platforms Operands create port_id vpwwn nnwwn s shame delete port id vpwwn query port id vpwwn stats port id vpwwn Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Adds a new V Port in the base fabric If the virtual fabric
171. ort is used Displays remote port statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Displays the remote port s port world wide name Displays the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument Note If the Ipwwn argument is not specified the base port is used Clears the remote port statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear remote port statistics Specifies the remote port s port world wide name for which you want to clear remote port statistics Displays the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Examples bcu rport Num RPORTs cf 75 6a 04 online 2048 cf 75 5b 3b online 2048 cf 75 6d 44 online 2048 010ada 21 010adc 21 010ae1 21 bcu rport list 2 0 3 00 00 04 c 75 00 00 04 cf 75 00 00 04 cf 75 query 1 0 21 RPORT FC Address RPORT port RPORT node Status Class of S Function wwn wwn ervice Data Field size Cont Incr Current Sp symbolic n Vendor Product ID seq cnt CISC eed ame Product Rev QOS priority QOS flow id TRL enforced 00 04 cf 01f701 152 6a 04 50 06 01 68 41 e0 68 c0 50 06 01 60 c1 e0 68 c0 online Class 3 Target 2048 DGC DGC DISK 0324 Unknown 0 o LUNZ ot Supported 0324 bcu rport stats 1 0 aa bb cc dd ee ff 00 01 fflines sent time reje rec
172. ower than 1 1 0 7 the version must be 1 1 0 7 or higher for Solaris Updating boot code using the GUI 1 Download the boot code brocade adapter boot fw v2 0 0 0 from www brocade com hba to a folder on your local drive 2 Launch HCM 3 Right click a host or adapter from the device tree and select Upload Boot Code Image from the list Right clicking a host uploads the boot code image to all adapters that are installed on the host e Right clicking an adapter uploads the boot code image to the selected adapter only The Boot Code Image Upload dialog displays Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Virtual Port configuration 4 m Boot Code Image Upload Ed File Name Browse OK Cancel Help FIGURE 9 Boot Code Image Upload dialog box 4 Click the Browse button and navigate to the location of the boot code image Select the boot code image and click Open The selected file uploads If an error occurs during the uploading process an error message displays Virtual Port configuration Virtual ports V_Ports appear to the hosts as physical ports in the data network One or more virtual ports are assigned to each host and a host can access storage at a virtual port only if the virtual port has been assigned to the host NOTE You cannot create a V_Port that already exists in the Names dialog If you need to re create a V_Port that has been deleted through an interface other than the currently mana
173. perating systems require you to follow specific guidelines to enable servers to boot from a SAN Understanding these requirements is key to a successful deployment of a boot over SAN environment Boot LUNs are identified to adapter ports using the BIOS Configuration Utility and BCU commands These utilities also allow you to enable or disable BIOS for booting the host system over SAN set boot options and set the port speed Refer to the Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual for instructions After you have configured boot devices using the BIOS Configuration Utility you can enable or disable BIOS for boot over SAN set boot options and set port speed using the HCM GUI All configuration is stored in flash memory 32 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Boot over SAN HBA only 4 Configuring Boot over SAN The boot LUN table lists the vendor information LUN capacity and whether the LUNs are accessible These fields are not editable You can access the Boot over SAN dialog box by selecting the Host an HBA or an HBA port from the device tree NOTE Boot over SAN configuration using the Basic Port Configuration dialog box is enabled on all platforms if the agent version is 1 1 or higher Select Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 5 Click the Boot over SAN tab The Boot over SAN dialog box displays e Basic
174. performed and the results e Serial console and Telnet session logs syslog message logs Related documentation Part Number Document Title 53 1000884 01 Brocade Fibre Channel Adapter Installation and Reference Manual supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 and HBA models 415 425 815 and 825 53 1000885 01 Brocade Fibre Channel Adapter Troubleshooting Guide supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 and HBA models 415 425 815 and 825 53 1000598 03 Fabric OS Administrator s Guide supporting Fabric OS v6 1 0 53 1000853 01 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide supporting Fabric OS v6 1 0 xvi Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Document feedback Quality is our first concern at Brocade and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of this document However if you find an error or an omission or you think that a topic needs further development we want to hear from you Forward your feedback to documentation brocade com Provide the title and version number of the document and as much detail as possible about your comment including the topic heading and page number and your suggestions for improvement Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide xvii 53 1001256 01 xviii Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Chapter Fibre Channel over Ethernet 1 In this chapter SELLER Reis cad ide e de M Re d Ane a ai d s ulin 1 Enhanced Ethernet features
175. pwwn Port commands physical port bcu port list name port id port name enable port id Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 BCU commands B disable port id stats lt port_id gt statsclr port id query port id topology port id auto p2p loop speed lt port_id gt lt speed gt dfsize port id dfsize Remote port rport commands bcu rport list port id I Ipwwn query port id lt rpwwn gt I lt lpwwn gt stats port id lt rpwwn gt I lt lpwwn gt statsclr port id lt rpwwn gt I Ipwwn osname port id I Ipwwn Target persistent binding commands Note Target persistent binding is available in Windows operating systems only It is not supported in other operating systems bcu pbind list port id lt pwwn gt clear QoS commands lt port_id gt Note QoS commands apply to the 8 Gbps HBA only bcu qos enable lt port_id gt disable lt port_id gt query port id stats lt port_id gt statsclr port id Target rate limiting commands Note Target rate limiting commands apply to the 8 Gbps HBA only bcu ratelim enable port id disable port id query port id defspeed port id lt 1 2 4 gt Ethernet VLAN Windows only commands bcu vlan add lt por
176. query port id Ethernet Log command Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 147 B 148 BCU commands bcu ethlog level port id Ethernet Port commands bcu ethport stats port id statsclr port id FC diagnostic commands bcu fcdiag feping port id lt rpwwn gt I Ipwwn fctraceroute port id lt rpwwn gt I lpwwn fcecho port id lt rpwwn gt I lpwwn linkbeacon port id on off scsitest port id lt rpwwn gt I lowwn FCP initiator mode commands Note fcpim mpiomode is not supported on Solaris platforms bcu fcpim query port id lt rpwwn gt I Ipwwn stats lt port_id gt lt statsclr lt port_id gt modstats port id modstatsclr lt port_id gt pathtov port id tov qdepth port id sq depth value 10 Controller IOC commands bcu ioc stats lt port_id gt statsclr port id enable lt port_id gt disable port id query lt ioc_id gt intr ioc id coalesce c gt on off lt Latency gt lt Delay gt Log commands bcu log level lt port_id gt lt critical error warning info gt m fw ha1 fcs drv aen all gt Logical port Iport commands bcu Iport list port id query port id I Ipwwn stats port id I Ipwwn statsclr port id I
177. r Configuration dialog box HBA and CNA Syslog Server Configuration dialog box HBA and CNA The Syslog Server Configuration dialog box enables you to configure the host connectivity manager HCM to send Syslog messages to other computers through port 514 You can configure the HCM agent to forward events to a maximum of three Syslog destinations Opening the dialog box 1 Select a CNA from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Syslog from the main menu Fields and components Field Description Hostname IP Address text box Enter the host name or IP address of the destination device Set this IP in all discovered agents in Click to set the device as a Syslog destination in all future discovered future check box agents Add button Click to register the host as a Syslog destination Remove button Click to remove the host as a Syslog destination Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Syslog support Registering a host server Removing a host server 130 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Target Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information for a selected remote port R_Port or FCoE port Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Remote port statistics gt Target Statistics from the
178. r of Enable events on the Ethernet IOC Disable Events The number of Disable events on the Ethernet IOC Heartbeat Failures Firmware Boots The number of heartbeat failures on the Ethernet IOC The number of firmware boots on the Ethernet IOC Stats Timeouts Using the dialog box The number of times the Eth IOC statistics timed out Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e Adding a VLAN Editing a VLAN e Removing a VLAN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Ethernet Port Properties panel CNA only A Ethernet Port Properties panel CNA only The Ethernet Port Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected Ethernet port Opening the properties panel 1 Select an Ethernet port in the device tree 2 Click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Description Eth Dev The name of the Ethernet device Port Type The port type for example Ethernet Burnt In MAC Address The binding MAC address of the Ethernet port Current MAC address The current MAC address of the Ethernet port IOC ID The IOC ID of the Ethernet port Hardware Path The world wide name of the hardware Status The status of the Ethernet port for example Linkup Eth Log Level The status of the Ethernet log for example Log Critical Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 93 53 1
179. rial number of the HBA 108 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 IOC Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A IOC Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The IOC Statistics dialog box enables you to view statistics related to the input output controller IOC Opening the dialog box 1 Select a physical port of the HBA or an FCoE port of a CNA from the device tree 2 Select Monitor gt Statistics gt IOC Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description aborted_cnt The number of times an I O abort has occurred abrt fail cnt The number of times an I O abort has failed arbfO rx The number of ARBFO primitive events that occurred on the firmware port buf waits The number of buffer wait state entries busy bufs The number of failures that have occurred due to a busy buffer cfg reqs The number of IOC firmware configuration requests cirstats_reqs The number of clear statistics clrstats events that have occurred on the IOC driver disable_reqs div2_overflow The number of disable events that have occurred on the IOC driver The number of div2 overflow events on the firmware port div2_underflow The number of div2 underflow events on the firmware port edtov_timedout_cnt The number of Error Detect Time Out events efifo_overflow The number of elastic FIFO EFIFO overflow events on the firmware port efifo_underflow
180. rocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Master Log Master Log 5 The Master Log Properties dialog box described in Table 10 displays a list of all events that have occurred Event monitoring enables early fault detection and isolation on a selected adapter You can filter the events based on the user defined criteria shown in Figure 22 TABLE 10 Master Log fields Field Description Filter button Click to launch the Master Log Filter dialog box Clear Filter button Click to clear the master log filter option set Sr No column Displays a numbering sequence in ascending order Severity column Displays the event severity informational minor major or critical WWN MAC column Displays the world wide name WWN or the media access control MAC address of the device on which the event occurred Category column Displays the category of event for example Rport or ITNIM Subcategory column Displays the subcategory of the main category Description column Displays a brief description of the event Date Time column Disp Event severities ays the date and time when the event occurred Table 11 describes the icons that represent the four event types TABLE 11 HCM Master Log icons Description Critical level messages indicate that the software has detected serious problems that will eventually cause a partial or complete failure of a subsystem if not corrected immediately for example a po
181. rt name A 64 bit unique identifier assigned to each Fibre Channel port The port name is communicated during the login and port discovery processes Resource Allocation Timeout Value R_A_TOV The maximum amount of time that a frame may be in transit in the topology If a frame has not been delivered within this amount of time the topology guarantees that it will never be delivered R_Port Remote port in a fabric A remote port is a port that is physically separated from the adapter Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP A protocol defined for providing network management and monitoring functions SMI S Storage Management Initiative Specification Storage Area Network SAN A configuration allowing multiple systems and storage devices to be interconnected using storage command protocols Switch Name A 64 bit unique Fibre Channel name assigned to a switch Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 205 53 1001256 01 D Glossary and acronyms TLV Type Length Value where Type is a numeric code that indicates the kind of field this part of the message represents Length is the size of the value field typically measured in bytes e Value is a variable sized set of bytes that contain data for this part of the message Topology An interconnection scheme that allows multiple Fibre Channel ports to communicate For example point to point and arbitrated loop are Fibre Channel topologies VF Virtual Fabric VLAN
182. rt that is physically separated from the adapter bcu rport list sport id sIpwwn5 bcu rport osname port id I Ipwwn bcu rport query sport id rpwwn 4 sIpwwn5 bcu rport stats port id lt rpwwn gt I Ipwwn bcu rport statsclr port id lt rpwwn gt Ipwwn Lists all the remote ports rports under a given port ID list port id Ipwwn osname port_id Ipwwn query port id rpwwn Ipwwn stats port_id rpwwn lpwwn setatsclr port id rpwwn Ipwwn Lists all remote ports accessible for a given logical port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display rport information Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument Note If the Ipwwn argument is not specified the base port is used Lists all the osnames of the remote ports that are visible through the local port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display osnames Specifies the logical port world wide name This is an optional argument Displays detailed attributes of a remote port Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to query attributes of a remote port Specifies the remote port world wide name for which you want to query attributes Specifies the logical port world wide name for which you want to query attributes of a remote port This is an optional argument Note If the Ipwwn argument is not specified the base p
183. rver port login accept errors The number of Name Server port login rejects ns_plogin_unknown_rsp The number of unknown Name Server port login response errors ns_plogin_alloc_wait The number of delayed Name Server port login response errors ns_rspn_ID_rsp_errors The number of Name Server Register Symbolic Port Name identifier response errors ns_rspn_ID_rejects The number of Name Server Register Symbolic Port Name identifier rejects ns_rspn_ID_alloc_wait The number of Name Server Register Symbolic Port Name identifier allocations ns_rspn_ID_sent The number of times the Name Server Register Symbolic Port Name identifier was sent ns_rspn_ID_accepts The number of times the Name Server Register Symbolic Port Name identifier was accepted ns_rft_ID_sent The number of Name Server Register FC4 Type identifier requests sent ns_rft_ID_accepts The number of times the system accepted Name Server Register FC4 Type identifier requests ns_rft_ID_rsp_errors The number of Name Server Register FC4 Type identifier response errors ns_rft_ID_rejects The number of times the system rejected Name Server Register FC4 Type identifier requests ns_rft_ID_alloc_wait Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The number of delayed Name Server Register FC4 Type identifier allocations 113 A Logical Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Field ns_
184. s To restore the backed up configuration data when you re install the HCM you must manually overwrite the new data directory contents with the backed up data This restores your previous settings Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 15 3 HCM main window HCM main window From the Host Connectivity Manager main window you can manage all the adapters installed in this computer Alternatively you can manage adapters installed in remote computers if the computers are networked Only one host can be managed at a time multiple host management is not supported Refer to the Brocade Fibre Channel CNA Installation and Reference Manual supporting CNA models BR 1010 and BR 1020 and HBA models 415 425 815 and 825 for instructions on how to install both the driver and GUI the driver only or the GUI only 4 x 6 Ele View Discovery Configure Monitor Tool Help E E Properties Adapters QW ARZO347D003 ace 2 E E 00 05 1 55 33 50 Host Nama 3a3 sp rh5 2 a 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 50 Operating System Type Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 2 Tikanga i686 BS 00 05 1E 55 33 52 Operating System Version 2 6 18 92 el5PAE E 9 00 05 1E 55 33 51 Agent Release Version spabbath pvt bld 04 20 2009 16 01 50 m 10 00 00 05 1E 55 33 51 j 00 05 1E 55 33 53 zz Master Log Applicatio
185. s Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The FCP IM Module Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistical information for each initiator target nexus ITN Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt FCP IM Module Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a port from the device tree and select FCP IM Module Statistics Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the FCP IM statistics Reset button Date Click to reset all of the statistics to O The date and time of the most recent reset Total number of lOs The total number of I O operations on the port IO waiting for CQ space The number of I Os waiting for circular queue space NO IO contexts IO abort requests Number of I O context requests The number of I O abort requests NO task management contexts Number of task management I O context requests IO completions with OK status The number of I O operations that completed successfully IO underrun good
186. s external to the adapter to evaluate the ports transmit and receive transceivers and the error rate on the adapter Read write buffer test which tests the link between the adapter and its devices e FC protocol tests including echo ping and traceroute Monitoring which provides statistics for the SAN components listed in Table 9 e Security which enables you to specify a CHAP secret and configure authentication parameters e Event notifications which provide asynchronous notification of various conditions and problems through a user defined event filter Tree node pop up menus You can use the HCM GUI main menu or the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU to configure monitor and troubleshoot your SAN components The instructions for using each feature are detailed in subsequent chapters of this document For each SAN component you can optionally right click its icon and a pop up menu displays see Table 1 The HCM GUI consists of three layers and the features display differently depending on the configuration There are three possible configuration scenarios as follows e Both the storage driver and the link layer driver are installed e Only the storage driver is installed e Only the link layer driver is installed Whether the FCoE Port node or the Ethernet node are presented in the tree depends on the drivers that are installed 6 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Tree node pop up menus 2 T
187. s for specific procedures using this dialog box e Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA Polling frequency rate Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring 124 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 58 1001256 01 Protocol Tests dialog box HBA and CNA A Protocol Tests dialog box HBA and CNA The Protocol Tests dialog box enables you to run diagnostic tests on Fibre Channel components Opening the dialog box 1 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the Host Connectivity Manager 2 Click the FC Protocol Tests tab Fields and components Field Echo Test check box Description Check to run an Echo Test on the selected port FC Ping Test check box Check to run an FC Ping Test on the selected port FC Traceroute check box Check to run an FC Traceroute on the selected port Add button Click to add a selected port logical port or target to the test list Remove button Click to remove a selected port logical port or target from the test list Remove All button Click to remove all ports logical ports and targets from the test list Test Cycle text box Specify the number of times the test runs The default value is 100 Test Log table Displays the time the test was run type of test run status of the test configuration and the results Port list Select a port on which the test will be run from the list Target list Select a
188. security authentica Xa scena Reece Hab BA ne aca OL B ACA a Bultel CrediiscsaaaktakqRAR RRGSAGUDRCAGAR RR RO CARA GA ERR DR OG ed e Basie Dort COUTISUEBLIDEL acu Rex bx RR E REI UE Gu a REGE E GEEK Eds BOGE over SAN HBA OD a daa Im cre px Ma RU umm ware aiite aam eR ipia Virtual Portoonf ig UESIOFL aa mp KG rr kd X ERCGAAROEGS Rack CER KG Mr PEU d RETI Advanced part ooh e I BEIDE usui eiae acte prre NANG EH nara a ede Name config UFS CO vaa quaa rar Ses EPSEAERAGGARGEGSAQ ERO Oa XO cea e VLAN CORISUFSUDI uius exea X y ERE ERU EE RYE RUE EG d E Rx KR es Host security authentication Use the HCM GUI or the Brocade command line utility BCU to display the authentication settings and status There are five well known DH groups however only DH CHAP group O called NULL DH is supported in this release NOTE Security authentication is not supported on Solaris platforms Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 21 4 Host security authentication Configuring security authentication using the GUI Host and HBA You can access the Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration dialog box by selecting the Host an HBA or an HBA port from the device tree NOTE FC SP is not available for Solaris platforms 1 Select the appropriate device based on how you want to configure security authentication e From the host level select the host from the device tree e From the HBA level select the adapter from
189. sion Rev X hw path 0000 0a 00 Serial Num ARZ0351D00L name PCI Information vendor id 0x1657 device id 0x0014 ssid 0x0014 ssvid 0x1657 revid ASIC revision PCIe Gen Genl PCIe lanes 8 Initial number of lanes 8 Port Information Port 0 pwwn 10 00 00 05 1e 55 1d 5c nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 55 1d 5c TOC ID 0 hwpath 0000 0a 00 2 Eth name eth2 Port 1 port type FC FCoE pwwn 10 00 00 05 1e 55 1d 5d nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 53 1d 5d IOC ID 1 hwpath 0000 0a 00 3 Eth name eth3 152 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 See Also Flash Information status good fw version FCHBA2 0 0 0 bios version brocade adapter boot fw v2 0 0 0 bcu adapter query 3 Adapter Information model info BR 1010 card type CNA num ports 2 max speed 10 Gbps chip revision Rev X hw path 0000 14 00 Serial Num ALX0714D05R name PCI Information vendor id 1657 device id 0014 ssid 0015 ssvid 1657 revid ASIC revision PCIe Gen Gen2 PCIe lanes 8 Initial number of lanes 8 Port Information Port 0 pwwn 10 200 00 05 1e6e 53 39 063 nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 53 39 63 hwpath 0000 01 00 0 name Port 1 pwwn 10 00 00 05 1e 53 39 64 nwwn 20 00 00 05 1e 53 39 64 hwpath 0000 01 00 0 name user assigned port name Flash Information status good fw version FCHBA2 0 bios version FCHBA2 0 bcu adapter name 1 emc fab3 ad5 adapter BRCD1234567 s name set to emc fab3
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191. st and related attributes of discovered hosts When you log in to HCM the specified host is automatically contacted discovered and displayed on the navigation tree By default the local host is automatically contacted discovered and displayed on the navigation tree When you configure and turn on discovery the application discovers Brocade adapters in that host connected to the SAN NOTE The HCM application enables you to discover Brocade adapters ports virtual ports remote ports and LUNs using out of band discovery only Setting up out of band discovery for an adapter When performing out of band discovery you are managing the adapter remotely The application connects to the agent running on the host server over the IP network and product information is copied back from the Brocade adapter to the server If you do not configure the application to directly discover the devices the connections and attached devices may not display correctly 1 From the Host Connectivity Manager click Discovery gt Setup The Setup for Discovery dialog box displays Host Name localhost v Port 34568 User ID admin Password romy Remember Host Polling Frequency Seconds 60 Keep Polling iv OK Cancel Help FIGURE 5 Setup for Discovery dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Logging off HCM 3 From the Host Name list select the host name from where you will discover the adapter For the
192. stics dialog box HBA and CNA 0c cee eee eee eee 109 LLDP Properties panel CINA only i occ araire PG KARNE a aloe 112 e Logical Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA sslslssss 113 PORT Properties panel HBA and CNA 0 0c e eee eee 145 Master Log tab HBA and CNA icc aaa asenaan ABG lace t RR RR 116 Master Log Filter dialog box HBA and CNA a aaa 118 Persistent Binding dialog box HBA and CNA aaa 119 Port POM Properties panel HBA and CNA leer 00002 cn ee 120 Port Properties panel HBA ONIY aanak kA KAR KAKA bane ANNE 121 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 75 76 A In this section Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 0 0c eee ee eee eee 123 e Protocol Tests dialog box HBA and CNA 2 00 eee eee e eee 125 Qos Statistics dialog DoxtHDA ORIY uuseaadpak kapani RR don ER keg 126 e Remote Port Properties panel HBA and CNA 00000 eee 127 SPP Properes palel cos sate acne d beaten bere ec A BORRADA 128 e Syslog Server Configuration dialog box HBA and CNA 130 Target Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA 000c ee eee eee 131 e Test Log Details dialog box HBA and CNA aaa 134 Virtual Port Creation dialog box HBA and CNA Lille 135 e Virtual Port Deletion dialog box HBA and CNA 0220000 136 e Virtual Port Properties panel
193. sword New password Type a new password Confirm New password Confirm your new password by retyping it Using the dialog box Refer to the following topic for specific procedures using this dialog box e Changing an HCM application password 86 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 CNA Properties panel CNA only A CNA Properties panel CNA only The CNA Properties panel enables you to display the properties that are associated with a selected Converged network adapter CNA Opening the properties panel 1 Select a CNA in the device tree 2 Click the Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field CNA Parameters Description MAC Address The adapter s media access control address Name The name representing the adapter Operating Status Whether the CNA is enabled or disabled Manufacturer The company that manufactured the CNA Model Description The description of the CNA Max Speed Supported The maximum speed supported on the CNA which is 10 Gbps OEM Info Information about the original equipment manufacturer if applicable Card Type The adapter card type for example CNA Hardware Path The hardware path of the CNA Serial The serial number of the CNA Temperature The temperature of the CNA both in Celsius and Fahrenheit Chip Revision The revision level of the chip Driver Parameters It is possible to have m
194. t The Diagnostics dialog box is displayed 3 Click the Ethernet Tests tab e Diagnostics Hardware Tests Ethernet Tests FC Protocol Tests Tests Y eth Loopback Test Ports AA 22 33 44 55 FE v Subtest ID Serdes TestCycle 10 _ Stop on Error Link Speed 10 Gbps v Start Frame Count 8192 Data Pattern A5A5A5A5 ay Test Log Time Test Status Configuration Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 EthLoopbackTest READY hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy EXECUTING hbaMAC null localPortMAC Thu Feb 12 09 10 37 Eth Loopback INT Cy PASS hbaMAC null local
195. t Virtual Port Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Keep Running Data checkbox Polling Frequency in Seconds text box Description Click to continue running statistical data This is useful if you want to see a trend Type a number for polling frequency The range is between five and 3600 seconds and the default is five seconds Start Polling button Click to manually poll the V Port statistics Reset button Click to reset all of the statistics to O Date The date and time of the most recent reset WWN The world wide name of the virtual port fdisc sent The number of Fabric discoveries sent fdisc accepts fdisc retries The number of times the system accepts Fabric discoveries The number of times a Fabric discovery is attempted fdisc_timeouts The time that is required for a Fabric discovery fdisc_rsp_err The number of Fabric discovery response errors fdisc_acc_bad The number of bad accepts fdisc_rejects The number of times the system rejects Fabric discoveries fdisc_unknown The number of unknown Fabric discovery occurrences fdisc_alloc_waits The number of delayed Fabric discovery allocations logo_sent logo_accepts The number of times logouts occur The number of times logouts are accepted logo_rejects The number of times logouts are rejected logo_rsp_err The number of logout resp
196. t Configure gt Basic Port Configuration from the main menu The Basic Port Configuration dialog box displays 3 Basic Port Configuration x Serial 4002202 Hardware Path 30 00 11 Ports Port Name Port Type Configured State Operating State Configured Speed Operating Speed Configured Topology Operating Tol o Port 0 UNKNOWN Enabled Enabling qwait 1 Gb s 8 Gbis Point to Point Point to Point ay Port Parameters Boot over SAN Port WAN MAC 22 44 44 22 44 44 22 22 Port 0 Apply Port Enable vi Port Logging Level LogError v Apply To All Configured Speed Auto Negotiate E Frame Data Field Size 2112 Ni Apply All action n inei vi zi will not change Persistent Binding QoS Enable vi port wwn or number MPIO Mode Enable vi Target Rate Limiting v Default Rate Limit 2 Ghis 7 coe FIGURE 7 Basic Port Configuration dialog box Windows Linux and VmWare Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 25 53 1001256 01 26 4 Basic port configuration Port logging level The number of messages logged by the host depends on the predetermined logging level Although the adapter might generate many messages only certain types of messages are logged based on the specified logging level Configuring the port logging level using the GUI 1 Select Configure Basic Port Configuration from the Host Connectivity Manager The Basic Port Configuration dialog box disp
197. t VLAN should not co exist with regular or PASSTHRU VLAN Please refer to User Guide for remedy action OK Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 18 VLAN Configuration conflicts You can remove a regular VLAN or Passthru VLAN from an invalid configuration using the instructions in Removing a VLAN on page 51 A regular VLAN or Passthru VLAN can be removed at any time A PORT VLAN however is not editable Editing a VLAN You can access the VLAN Configuration dialog box by selecting an Ethernet port from the device tree This procedure provides instructions about how to edit an existing VLAN You cannot edit a PORT VLAN or a Passthru VLAN 1 From the Ethernet port level select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click an Ethernet port and select VLAN Configuration from the list The VLAN Configuration dialog displays Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 VLAN configuration 4 3 Click Edit on the VLAN Configuration dialog Figure 15 The Edit VLAN dialog displays V Edit VLAN ez Port MAC 30 30 30 30 30 VLAN ID 1 VLAN Name vlani OK Cancel Help FIGURE 19 Edit VLAN dialog box 4 Type a new name in the VLAN Name text box 5 Click OK Removing a VLAN You can access the VLAN Configuration dialog box by selecting an Ethernet port from the device tree This procedure provides instructions about how to remove an existing VLAN 1
198. t are associated with a logical port Opening the properties panel 1 From the device tree select a physical port 2 Click the LPORTs Properties tab in the right pane Fields and components Field Description Base Port Indicates whether the logical port is used as the base port FC Address The Fibre Channel address of the logical port Node WWN The adapter s world wide name Port WWN The port s world wide name Roles The role of the logical port for example FCP Initiator State Displays whether the logical port is online or offline Switch IP Addr The switch s IP address Switch NWWN The switch node s world wide name Symbolic Name Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 The symbolic name associated with the logical port 115 A Master Log tab HBA and CNA Master Log tab HBA and CNA The Master Log enables you to display a list of all events that have occurred Opening the Master Log Click the Master Log tab located on the bottom pane of the Host Connectivity Manager A master summary of events on all discovered devices is displayed Fields and components Field Description Filter button Click to launch the Master Log Filter dialog box Clear Filter button Click to clear the Master Log Filter parameters Refresh button Click to refresh the Master Log Sr No column Displays a numbering sequence in ascending order Sev
199. t capable of arbitrated loop operations and is connected to a single N Port Fabric Stability Timeout Value F S TOV A timeout value used for fabric initialization and switch selection FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCP The Fibre Channel Protocol for mapping SCSI 3 operations to Fibre Channel FLOGI FC Fabric Login request FL_Port A switch port that is capable of arbitrated loop operations and is connected to one or more NL_Ports in an arbitrated loop topology FOS Fabric Operating System FPMA Fabric Provided MAC Address F_Port Fabric Port A port on a switch to which an N_Port connects HBA Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 203 53 1001256 01 D 204 Glossary and acronyms Host Bus Adapter HCM Host Connectivity Manager Host Bus Adapter HBA A hardware facility in a node that provides an interface attachment IOC 1 0 Controller ITL Initiator Target LUN An Initiator Port HBA controller talks to one Target Port addressing one LUN LLDP Login BB_Credit Link Layer Discovery Protocol On an arbitrated loop a value equal to the number of receive buffers that a receiving NL_Port guarantees to have available when a loop circuit is established Login BB_Credit is communicated in the FLOGI PLOGI or pDISC link services Loop Initialization Primitive Sequence A primitive sequence used to begin the arbitrated loop initialization process Lossless Ethernet MAC LUN LUN mapping MAC MIB
200. t for Brocade HBAs and FCoE transport for Brocade CNAs The adapter logic detects either a FCoE or Fibre Channel network and the appropriate driver support is provided automatically NOTE The unified storage driver will claim all installed Brocade Fiber Channel HBAs as well as FCoE CNAs installed in a system This driver will be used instead of the driver originally installed for the HBA e Network driver This is the driver for frame transport over Ethernet and basic Ethernet services This driver only applies to CNAs e Intermediate driver This is for Windows systems only It provides support for multiple VLANs This driver only applies to CNAs The firmware is packaged with both the Storage driver and the Network driver so that it can be downloaded by either of the drivers The firmware is also stored in the flash for SAN boot For more information about the driver packages support for the drivers and driver installation refer to the Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual Enhanced Ethernet features Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS and priority based flow control are the two basic requirments in a lossless Ethernet environment These capabilities allow the Fibre Channel frames to run directly over 10 Gbps Ethernet segments without adversely affecting performance Enhanced transmission selection With ETS more important storage data traffic can be assigned higher priority and higher guaranteed bandwidth so tha
201. t id gt lt vlan id gt lt vlan name gt remove lt port id gt lt vlan id gt edit port id vlan id new vlan name list port id query lt port id gt lt vlan id gt Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 149 B 150 BCU commands Virtual port vport commands Note vport commands are not supported on Solaris platforms bcu vport create sport id lt vpwwn gt n lt nwwn gt s lt sname gt delete lt port_id gt lt vpwwn gt query port id lt vpwwn gt stats port id lt vpwwn gt statsclr lt port_id gt lt vpwwn gt Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 adapter B adapter Displays and sets adapter parameters The adapters are HBA models 415 425 815 and 825 and CNA single port models BR 1010 and BR 1020 NOTE When trunking is enabled multiple physical ports are trunked together to form a logical Fibre Channel port Synopsis bcu adapter enable lt ad_id gt bcu adapter disable sad id bcu adapter list bcu adapter name lt serial no adapter index gt adapter name bcu adapter query sad id Description Displays and sets commands that apply to the physical adapter There can be one or more PCI functions per adapter which are referred to as ports Each port exposes a logical Fibre Channel port which typically equates to a physical Fibre Channel port Operands When invoked without operands this command displ
202. t it is not stalled by less important traffic To enable effective utilization of the network ETS allows lower priority to unused bandwidth from high priority queues ETS allows configuration of bandwidth per priority group Priority group ID usage is defined as follows e PGID O 7 is used when the priority group is limited for its bandwidth use e PGID 8 14 is reserved e PGID 15 is used for priorities that are not limited for their bandwidth use The configured priority group percentage refers to the maximum percentage of available link bandwidth after PGID 15 is serviced assuming all priority groups are fully subscribed If one of the priority groups does not consume its allocated bandwidth then any unused portion is available for use by other priority groups 2 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Enhanced Ethernet features 1 Priority based flow control Priority flow control pauses traffic based on the priority levels A high level pause algorithm follows During periods of heavy congestion the receive buffers reach high threshold and generate a pause e The pause tells transmission Tx queues to stop transmitting After the receive Rx buffers reach low threshold a zero pause is generated e The zero Pause signals the Tx queues to resume transmitting Ethernet jumbo frames The basic assumption underlying FCoE is that TCP IP is
203. t participate in the authentication process the port skips the authentication process If the switch participates in the authentication and authentication fails the port is placed in a link down state port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the authentication policy on off Specifies the state of the authentication policy policy 2 1 on means authentication is turned on policy 2 1 off means authentication is turned off secret Sets the shared secret Note You cannot clear the secret port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the shared secret secret string Specifies the secret string The maximum length of the secret is 63 bytes The default secret for each interface is its pwwn without the colons for example 0102030405060708 show Displays the authentication settings and current status Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 port_id stats port id statsclr port id Example auth B Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Displays the authentication statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information Clears the authentication statistics Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to clear statistical information Here is an example of the output when authentication is successful bcu auth show 1 0 port Port Status Auth Hash Type Group Type 1 0 Linkdown Success
204. test lt port_id gt Description Displays the group of diagnostic commands that are non destructive and indicates when the adapter is running at a normal operation state NOTE You must disable the port prior to executing the loopback test You must disable the adapter prior to executing the memtest Operands sfpshow Monitors the attributes of the SFP This is an online diagnostic test Note A notification occurs for any parameter that is not within the configured power temperature and voltage policies port_id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to monitor the SFP attributes tempshow Reads the adapter s temperature sensor registers This is an online diagnostic test ad_id Specifies the ID of the adapter for which you want to display temperature sensor registers Values include below the minimum normal above the maximum and sensor fault beacon Controls the port and link end to end beaconing This is an online diagnostic test port_id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to beacon on off Turns end to end beaconing on or off t secs Displays the beacon time duration in seconds Beaconing is automatically turned off after the specified duration If the duration is set to O beaconing continues until it is explicitly turned off pciloopback Sends a health check message from the host to firmware through message queues memory mapped over the PCI This is an online diagnostic test port_id Speci
205. tets Total number of transmitted broadcast octets TxfO Broadcast Total number of transmitted broadcast frames TxfO Broadcast Vlan Total number of transmitted broadcast VLANs TxfO Errors Total number of transmitted errors TxfO Filter Vian Total number of transmitted VLAN filters TxfO Filter MAC SA RxfO Unicast Octets Total number of transmitted filter MAC source addresses Total number of received unicast octets RxfO Unicast Total number of received unicast frames RxfO Unicast Vian Total number of received unicast VLANs RxfO Multicast Octets RxfO Multicast Total number of received multicast octets Total number of received multicast frames Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Field RxfO Multicast Vian Eth Statistics dialog box CNA only Description Total number of received multicast VLANs A RxfO Broadcast Octets Total number of received broadcast octets RxfO Broadcast Total number of received broadcast frames RrxfO Broadcast Vian Total number of received broadcast VLANs RxfO frame drops Total number of received frame drops Rx packets Total number of received packets Tx packets Total number of transmitted packets Rx bytes Total number of received bytes Tx bytes Total number of transmitted bytes Netif queue stop Total number of Linux Netlf queue stops Netif queue wakeup Total
206. th including node hops and latency data fcecho Sends an FC Echo Extended Link Services ELS request to a remote port linkbeacon Blinks the LED light of the remote port of the link Scsitest Tests the SCSI components Refer to fcdiag on page 175 for details about this command 62 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI 6 Fibre Channel diagnostics using the GUI The purpose of diagnostic commands is to evaluate the integrity of the system hardware Be sure to disable the port s before running any type of port diagnostics In addition it is advisable that you do not perform other operations on the adapter while running HCM or BCU diagnostics NOTE When you invoke a test on an adapter you can run diagnostics for one or both ports within the selected adapter Running a hardware level test using the GUI 1 Select an adapter or port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Diagnostics from the main menu OR Right click the component and select Diagnostics from the list The Diagnostics dialog box is displayed e Diagnostics Ex Hardware Tests Ethernet Tests FC Protocol Tests HBA Level Test Start _ Memory Test Stop on Error Port Level Tests Total Tests 0 Ports 30 30 30 30 30 30 v Loopback Test Tests Passed 0 Test Cycle 10 Subtest ID Tests Failed 0 Link Speed _ PCI Loopback Test p Seon Mhal a Frame Count mrama cout Tests Executing O Data
207. the device tree e From an HBA port select a port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt FC SP from the main menu or perform the appropriate following step to open the security authentication dialog box e From the host level right click the host and select FC SP from the list The Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration host level dialog box displays as shown in Figure 6 e From the adapter level right click the adapter and select FC SP from the list The Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration adapter level dialog box displays This dialog box is identical to the Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration host level dialog box e From the adapter port level right click a port and select FC SP gt Authentication from the list The Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration dialog at the host level displays Fiber Channel Security Protocol Configuration gt BLXOSD1DUSS Port Port w Port Name Authentication Status Algorithm Group 0 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 C0 bfa0 poro Disabled no auth MD5 DHNULL 1 10 00 00 05 1E 53 08 C1 btad por Disabled no auth MDS DHNULL Port FC SP _ Enable Authentication CHAP Secret Retype Secret Algorithm MDS v Group DHNULL v OK Cancel Apply Help FIGURE 6 Fibre Channel Security Protocol Configuration host level dialog box Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Host security authentication 4
208. the transmitting LLDP agent System Name The user configured name of the local system System Description The system description containing information about the software and current image running on the system System Capabilities The primary functions performed by the system The capabilities that the system supports are not configurable but are based on the model of the product Time to Live The age of the information propogated in LLDP frames Time to live TTL values are measured in seconds Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Logical Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA A Logical Port Statistics dialog box HBA and CNA The Logical Port Statistics dialog box enables you to display statistics that are related to a selected logical port Opening the dialog box Select Monitor gt Statistics gt Logical Port Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager OR Right click a logical port LPORT from the device tree and select Logical Port Statistics Fields and components Field Description Date The date and time of the most recent reset WWN The world wide name of the logical port ns_plogin_sent The number of Name Server port logins sent ns_plogin_accepts The number of times Name Server port logins are accepted ns_plogin_rsp_errors The number of Name Server response errors ns_plogin_accept_errors ns_plogin_rejects The number of Name Se
209. ting in the fabric at a slower speed A remote port s operating speed is determined from the fabric Traffic destined to the remote port is limited to its current operating speed The default rate limit is 1 Gbps Target rate limiting TRL is supported only when the HBA port is connected to the fabric Therefore TRL is not supported when the port is directly connected with another device NOTE You must first enter the bcu port disable sport id command followed by the port enable command before the ratelim enable or ratelim disable commands take effect Operands enable Enables target rate limiting port id Specifies the ID of the port you want to enable disable Disables target rate limiting on the HBA port id Specifies the ID of the port you want to disable query Queries the target rate limiting details port id Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display information defspeed Sets the default target rate limiting speed The default TRL speed must be supported and less than the maximum speed at which the card can operate port id Specifies the ID of the port on which you want to set the speed speed 1 2 4 Sets the default target rate limiting speed on the HBA Options are 1 Gbps 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps See Also None Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 191 53 1001256 01 B rport rport Synopsis Description Operands 192 Lists the commands that apply to a remote port in a fabric A remote port is a po
210. tion options TABLE 7 Basic port configuration options Configurable using Configurable using Port configuration parameter the GUI the BCU For more information Port logging levelt Yes Yes Port logging level Configure speed HBA only Yes Yes Port speed Frame data field size Yes Yes Frame data field size Persistent Binding Yes Yes Persistent binding Note The persistent binding option is available on Windows platforms only QoS HBA only Yes Yes QoS HBA only MPIO mode HBA only Yes Yes MPIO HBA only Path Time Out Yes Yes Path Time Out Target Rate Limiting HBA only Yes Yes Target rate limiting HBA only Boot over SAN HBA only Yes Yes Boot over SAN HBA only Boot code image upload HBA only Yes Yes Boot code image upload HBA only 1f an Ethernet port is selected the Basic Port Configuration dialog displays an additional feature called Eth Logging Level 2 Path Time Out is available only when MPIO is disabled Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Basic port configuration 4 Opening the Basic Port Configuration dialog box There are slight changes in HCM s basic port configuration dialog depending on the operating system You can access the Basic Port Configuration dialog box by selecting the Host an HBA an HBA port a CNA or an FCoE port from the device tree 1 Select a device from the device tree 2 Selec
211. tistics dialog box HBA and CNA e Polling frequency rate e Resetting statistics e Performance monitoring 104 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Fibre Channel Security Protocol dialog box HBA and CNA A Fibre Channel Security Protocol dialog box HBA and CNA The Fibre Channel Security Protocol FC SP dialog box enables you to define security authentication on selected ports Opening the dialog box 1 Select a supported device in the device tree The following devices support FC SP the host HBA HBA port CNA CEE port and FCoE port 2 Select Configure gt FC_SP gt Authentication Statistics from the Host Connectivity Manager Fields and components Field Description Port The port number 0 or 1 for which you are configuring security authentication Port WWN The world wide name of the port for which you are configuring security authentication Port Name The name of the port for example Port O or Port 1 for which you are configuring security authentication Authentication Check to enable port security authentication Status Indicates whether authentication is used Algorithm The configured algorithm Options include md5 sha1 md5sha1 shamd5 Group Indicates the DH group value DHNULL group 0 is the only option Enable Authentication check box Check to enable FC SP authentication on the selected device CHAP Secret Type the CHAP secr
212. to query a boot configuration and set or disable the boot over SAN configuration Operands blunZone Creates the zonecreate command to be run on the switch c cfg Specifies the boot LUN BLUN of the boot command p port_wwn Specifies the world wide name of the port r roort_wwn Specifies the world wide name of the rport lun_id Specifies the ID of the logical unit The LUN ID is specified as a hexadecimal byte for example FF lun Specifies the number of the logical unit The LUN number is specified as a hexadecimal eight byte string for example O9AABBCCDDEEFFOO upload Updates the boot code in flash adapter id Specifies the ID of the adapter on which boot code is updated image file Specifies the name of the boot code image file a Indicates the boot code is uploaded to all the Brocade adapters found on the host The adapter id is not specified if a is specified Example bcu boot blunZone c BLUN p 10 00 00 05 1e 41 9a cb r 50 00 00 05 1e 41 9a ca 1 O9AABBCCDDEEFFO00 See Also bios Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 159 53 1001256 01 cee 160 cee Synopsis Operands Example Queries the Converged Enhanced Ethernet information on the port and displays statistics The port_id could be any of the following e Adapter ID or port ID e Port name e Port hardware path NOTE All switches must be in non willing mode bcu cee query port id bcu cee stats port id bcu cee statsclr
213. to you or cause damage to hardware firmware software or data xiv Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Key terms For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel see the Brocade Glossary For definitions specific to this document see Glossary and acronyms on page 201 For definitions of SAN specific terms visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online dictionary at http www snia org education dictionary Notice to the reader This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations These trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations These references are made for informational purposes only Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products Microsoft Corporation Windows Server Windows XP Windows Vista Sun Microsystems Inc Sun Solaris Red Hat Inc Red Hat Red Hat Network Maximum RPM Linux Undercover Novell Inc SuSE Enterprise Server SLES Linux VMware VMware ESX Server Additional information This section lists additional Brocade and industry specific documentation that you might find helpful Brocade resources To get up to the minute information join Brocade Connect It s free Go to http www brocade com and click Brocade Connect to register at no cost for a user ID and password For practical discussions about SAN design implementation and maintenance you can obtain Building SANs wit
214. ty based flow control 0 0000 cece eee eee eee 3 Ethernet jumbo frames 0 eee 3 FCoE protocols supported s ansen saaana ennnen 4 Ethernet link layer protocols supported 4 FCOE protocols sse kaparen a a a 4 HCM Overview ln this Chapters s miisi a aaa t aes Aa Ea RR EO AOE 5 HOM SoftWale iius hr ure eR ag ta rmi sae acs ae eck ENY 5 HCM features 0 0 cc eee eee hr 6 Tree node pop up menus 2 2 6 Operating system support 00 0 cece ee 8 Ethernet Link Layer Driver OS Support 000005 8 FCoE Driver OS support eee 9 iii Supported features ee eee teens 9 OS Specific features ioe E ko eels ER RE dade s 10 Chapter 3 Getting Started with HCM Software Inthis chapter uii EI ata the ie aa LEVA 11 HCM software launch 00 ccc eee 14 Launching the application on Windows platforms 11 Launching the application on Linux platforms 12 Launching the application on Solaris platforms 12 Remember paSSword 00 cece eee eee 12 Skip login ssi see ce RH eee Pale Pee aa 12 Changing an HCM application password 13 Changing an HCM agent password llllsssss 14 Resetting a password or restoring a factory default password 15 Backing up data after an uninstall n n asaan naaar 15 HCM main window eh 16 HCM producticOns eni eR E re re RIRs EA y RUE 17 DISCOVERY 1s cy O
215. ual Port e Deleting a Virtual Port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 135 53 1001256 01 A Virtual Port Deletion dialog box HBA and CNA Virtual Port Deletion dialog box HBA and CNA The Virtual Port Deletion dialog box enables you to delete an existing virtual port or FCoE port Opening the dialog box 1 Select a virtual port from the device tree 2 Select Configure Virtual Port Delete from the main menu OR Right click the virtual port and select Virtual Port Delete from the list A warning message displays asking for confirmation 3 Click OK to continue NOTE You can also select a base port from the device tree and delete it the same way you delete a virtual port Fields and components Field Description Deletion check box Check to select the virtual port to be deleted WWN The virtual port s world wide name Node WWN The virtual node s world wide name Symbolic Name The symbolic name that is associated with the virtual port Delete Selected button Click to delete the selected virtual port Delete All button Click to delete all virtual ports that are displayed Cancel button Click to abort the operation Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Virtual Port configuration Creating a Virtual Port e Deleting a Virtual Port 136 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Virtual Port Properties panel HBA
216. ual Port Creation dialog box HBA and CNA A Virtual Port Creation dialog box HBA and CNA The Virtual Port Creation dialog box enables you to create a new virtual port from a physical port or FCoE port Opening the dialog box 1 Select a physical port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt Virtual Port gt Create from the main menu OR Right click the physical port and select Virtual Port gt Create from the list Fields and components Field Description Virtual Port WWN text box Enter a unique world wide name for the virtual port NOTE The default node WWN is the physical port node WWN You must manually change it to a unique WWN for the virtual port Use auto generated check box Click to auto generate the virtual port world wide name By default auto generate is selected Generate Again button Click to regenerate the virtual port WWN and the virtual node WWN Virtual Node WWN text box Enter a unique world wide name for the virtual node NOTE The default node WWN is the physical port node WWN You must manually change it to a unique WWN for the virtual port Symbolic Name text box Enter the symbolic name associated with the virtual port Name text box Enter the name for the virtual port Description text box Enter a description for the virtual port Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box Virtual Port configuration Creating a Virt
217. ultiple pairs of driver information based on the number and types of drivers installed The three driver possibilities include the CNA Network Driver the FCoE Storage Driver or a single unified driver Driver Name The name of the host adapter driver Driver Version The version level of the host adapter driver Driver Name The name of the second driver if applicable Driver Version The version level of the second driver if applicable Firmware Parameters Firmware Version The version level of the firmware BIOS Version The version level of the BIOS Flash Status The flash status for example GOOD PCI Registers Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 87 A 88 CNA Properties panel CNA only Field Description Vendor ID The identifier of the PCI Register s vendor Device ID The device ID of the PCI Register Subsystem ID The ID of the PCI subsystem Subsystem Vendor ID The ID of the PCI subsystem vendor Current of Lanes The number of PCI lanes in Gbps each way between the PCI slot and the adapter PCle Generation The number of times the PCI Register is generated Initial Negotiated of Lanes The set number of PCI lanes that were initially negotiated OEM VPD Information HP only OEM The name of the OEM HP Part The part number of the adapter preceded by HP For example HP
218. ument contains the following components Chapter 1 Fibre Channel over Ethernet provides conceptual information about the Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology including converged enhanced Ethernet CEE e Chapter 2 HCM Overview provides a description of the Host Connectivity Manager HCM application software the graphical user interface GUI system requirements and supported operating systems e Chapter 3 Getting Started with HCM Software explains how to launch the management software set security passwords discover SAN components and log out e Chapter 4 Host Configuration provides the procedures to configure operating parameters basic and advanced security authentication and persistent binding using the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU or the GUI e Chapter 5 Monitoring describe the HCM monitoring features e Chapter 6 Diagnostics describes the non destructive group of diagnostic commands that can be run from the BCU or the GUI e Appendix A HCM Dialog Boxes lists the fields that are associated with the HCM GUI and provides a definition for each field e Appendix B Brocade Command Utility provides reference information for the Host Connectivity Manager HCM commands that can be run from the Brocade Command Line Utility BCU e Appendix D Glossary and acronyms provides reference information for common terms and acronyms Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide
219. utton Click to launch the Add VLAN dialog box which enables you to add a VLAN Edit button Click to launch the Edit VLAN dialog box which enables you to edit the VLAN name Remove button Click to remove a VLAN A confirmation error message displays Using the dialog box Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e VLAN configuration e Adding a VLAN e VLAN configuration conflicts e Editing a VLAN e Removing a VLAN 140 Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 VLAN configuration Add a VLAN dialog box CNA only VLAN configuration Add a VLAN dialog box CNA only The Add VLAN dialog box allows you to create a VLAN You can create a VLAN by selecting an Ethernet port Opening the dialog box 1 Select an Ethernet port from the device tree 2 Select Configure gt VLAN Configuration from the main menu OR Right click the host and select VLAN Configuration from the list Fields and components A Refer to the following topics for specific procedures using this dialog box e VLAN configuration e Adding a VLAN e VLAN configuration conflicts e Editing a VLAN e Removing a VLAN Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 Feld Description PotMAC The media access control address of the Ethernet port VLAN ID text box The VLAN identifier VLAN Name text box The VLAN name Create Passthru ch
220. wer supply failure or rise in temperature must receive immediate attention Major messages represent conditions that do not impact overall system functionality significantly For example timeouts on certain operations failures of certain operations after retries invalid parameters or failure to perform a requested operation Minor messages highlight a current operating condition that should be checked or it might lead to a failure in the future For example a power supply failure in a redundant system relays a warning that the system is no longer operating in redundant mode and that the failed power supply needs to be replaced or fixed Information level messages report the current non error status of the system components for example the online and offline status of a fabric port Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 55 5 56 Master Log Filtering event log entries Event filtering enables you to block events based on user defined criteria severity or type of log Events that have been filtered out do not appear in the Master Log 1 Click the Filter button in the Master Log section of the bottom pane The Master Log Filter dialog box displays 2 Filter the events using one or a combination of the criteria shown in Figure 22 NOTE The Category is the type of event for example an adapter port or audit m Master Log Filter x Event Time From 1 To Event Severity Lev
221. ze displays Note The new receive data field size takes effect when the port is re enabled Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to set the data field size Indicates the maximum supported receive data field size in decimal value If set to auto the driver default value displays Possible values are 512 1024 2048 and 2112 Queries or sets the port topology Specifies the ID of the port for which you want to display or set the topology Specifies the topology type Supported topology modes are as follows auto auto discovers the topology e p2p point to point e loop Note The topology setting will take effect after the port disable and port enable commands are executed Port Type PWWN MAC FC Addr Media State Spd Eth dev 1 0 cee 00 05 1e 8e b6 02 ES sw CEE Linkup 10G fcoe 10 00 00 05 1e 8e b6 02 860b03 Linkup eth 00 05 1le 8e b6 04 eth2 Linkup 1 1 cee 00 05 1e 8e b6 03 x Sw CEE Linkup 10G fcoe 10 00 00 05 1e 8e b6 03 8604803 Linkup eth 00 05 1e 8e b6 05 eth3 Linkup 2 0 fc 10 00 00 05 1e 0 1a b1 8c0e00 Sw Linkup 4G Brocade Adapters Administrator s Guide 53 1001256 01 bcu port name 1 0 emc fab3 ad5 p0 Port 1 0 s name set to emc fab3 ad5 pO bcu port name 1 0 Port 1 0 s name is emo fab3 ad5 pO bcu port enable 2 1 port enabled bcu port enable 2 1 port is already enabled bcu port disable 2 1 port disabled bcu port disable 2 1 port is already disabled bcu port stats

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