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<$singlepage>FCSs
configuring names 1
<$singlepage>Link Failure
detecting unidirectional 1
<$singlepage>TE ports
FCS support 1

A

AAA
accounting 1
authentication 2
benefits 3
configuring console login 4
default settings 5
DHCHAP authentication 6
enabling MSCHAP authentication 7
example configuration 8
guidelines 9
limitations 10
prerequisites 11
user login process 12
verifying configurations 13
AAA accounting
configuring default methods 1
AAA accounting logs
clearing 1
displaying 2
AAA logins
enabling authentication failure messages 1
AAA protocols
RADIUS 1
TACACS+ 2
AAA server groups
description 1
AAA servers
specifying SNMPv3 parameters 1 2
specifying user roles 2
specifying user roles in VSAs 3
AAA services
configuration options 1
remote 2
accounting
description 1
active zone sets
considerations 1
enabling distribution 2
address allocation cache
description 1
administrative speeds
configuring 1
administrative states
description 1
authentication
description 1
fabric security 2
local 3
methods 4
remote 5
user login 6
authorization
user login 1
auto mode
configuring 1
auto port mode
description 1
autosensing speed 1

B

BB_credits
description 1
displaying information 2
reason codes 3
bit error thresholds
configuring 1
description 2
bit errors
reasons 1
blocking state, STP 1
BPDU guard 1
bridge ID 1
broadcast storms 1
Brocade
native interop mode 1
buffer-to-buffer credits 1
build fabric frames
description 1

C

call home
smart call home feature 1
Call Home
description 1
message format options 2
Call Home messages
configuring levels 1
format options 2
call home notifications
full-txt format for syslog 1
XML format for syslog 2
Cisco
vendor ID 1 2
cisco-av-pair
specifying AAA user parameters 1 2
CIST regional root 1
CIST root 1
community ports 1
community VLANs 1 2
company IDs
FC ID allocations 1
configuring LACP 1
configuring NPV 1 2
Contiguous Domain ID Assignments
About 1

D

dead time intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
debounce timer 1
default settings
AAA 1
rollback 2
default users
description 1
default VSANs
description 1
default zones
description 1
interoperability 2
policies 3
destination IDs
exchange based 1
flow based 2
in-order delivery 3
path selection 4
device alias databases
disabling distribution 1
discarding changes 2
enabling distribution 3
locking the fabric 4
merging 5
device aliases
comparison with zones 1
creating 2
default settings 3
description 4
displaying information 5
displaying zone set information 6
enhanced mode 7
features 8
modifying databases 9
requirements 10
zone alias conversion 11
device IDs
call home format 1
DHCHAP
AAA authentication 1
authentication modes 2
compatibility with other NX-OS features 3
configuring 4
configuring AAA authentication 5
default settings 6
description 7
displaying security information 8
enabling 9
group settings 10
hash algorithms 11
passwords for local switches 12
sample configuration 13
diagnostics
configuring 1
default settings 2
expansion modules 3
health monitoring 4
runtime 5
Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol 1
documentation
additional publications 1
obtaining 2
domain IDs
allowed lists 1
assignment failures 2
configuring allowed lists 3
configuring CFS distribution 1 2
configuring fcalias members 5
contiguous assignments 6
description 7
distributing 8
enabling contiguous assignments 1 2
interoperability 10
preferred 11
static 12
domain manager
fast restart feature 1
isolation 2
drop latency time
configuring 1
configuring for FSPF in-order delivery 2
displaying information 3

E

E port mode
classes of service 1
description 2
E ports
configuring 1
fabric binding checking 2
FCS support 3
FSPF topologies 4
isolation 5
recovering from link isolations 6
trunking configuration 7
e-mail notifications
Call Home 1
EFMD
displaying statistics 1
fabric binding 2
fabric binding initiation 3
EISLs
SAN port channel links 1
ELP 1
enabling NPV 1
enhanced zones
advantages over basic zones 1
changing from basic zones 2
configuring default full database distribution 3
configuring default policies 4
configuring default switch-wide zone policies 5
description 6
modifying database 7
ethanalyzer 1
EtherChannel
STP 1
examples
AAA configurations 1
Exchange Fabric Membership Data 1
exchange IDs
in-order delivery 1
load balancing 2
path selection 3
exchange link parameter 1
executing a session 1
expansion port mode 1
extended range VLANs 1

F

F port mode
classes of service 1
description 2
F ports
configuring 1
description 2
fabric binding
checking for E ports 1
checking for TE ports 2
clearing statistics 3
compatibility with DHCHAP 4
copying to config database 5
copying to configuration file (procedure) 6
creating config database (procedure) 7
default settings 8
deleting databases 9
deleting from config database (procedure) 10
description 11
disabling 12
EFMD 13
enabling 14
enforcement 15
forceful activation 16
forceful deactivation 17
initiation process 18
licensing requirements 19
port security comparison 20
saving to config database 21
verifying status 22
viewing active databases (procedure) 23
viewing EFMD statistics (procedure) 24
viewing violations (procedure) 25
Fabric Configuration Servers 1
fabric login 1
fabric port mode 1
fabric pWWNs
zone membership 1
fabric reconfiguration
fcdomain phase 1
fabric security
authentication 1
default settings 2
Fabric Shortest Path First
routing services 1
Fabric-Device Management Interface 1
fabrics 1
fault tolerant fabrics
example (figure) 1
FC IDs
allocating 1
allocating default company ID lists 2
configuring fcalias members 3
description 4
persistent 5
FC-SP
authentication 1
enabling 2
enabling on ISLs 3
fcaliases
cloning 1
configuring for zones 2
creating 3
renaming 4
fcdomains
autoreconfigured merged fabrics 1
configuring CFS distribution 1 2
default settings 3
description 4
disabling 5
displaying information 6
domain IDs 7
domain manager fast restart 8
dsiplaying statistics 9
enabling 10
enabling autoreconfiguration 11
incoming RCFs 12
initiation 13
overlap isolation 14
restarts 15
switch priorities 16
FCoE
disable LAN traffic 1
fcping
default settings 1
verifying switch connectivity 2
FCSs
characteristics 1
default settings 2
description 3
displaying information 4
fctimers
displaying configured values 1
fctrace
default settings 1
invoking 2
FDMI
description 1
displaying database information 2
Fibre Channel
sWWNs for fabric binding 1
timeout values 2
TOV 3
Fibre Channel domains 1
Fibre Channel interfaces
administrative states 1
BB_credits 2
configuring 3
configuring auto port mode 4
configuring bit error thresholds 5
configuring descriptions 6
configuring frame encapsulation 7
configuring port modes 8
configuring range 9
configuring speeds 10
default settings 11
displaying VSAN membership 12
operational states 13
reason codes 14
states 15
Fibre Channel over Ethernet 1
Fibre Channel Security Protocol 1
FLOGI
description 1
flow statistics
clearing 1
counting 2
description 3
displaying 4
frame encapsulation
configuring 1
FSCN
displaying databases 1
FSPF
clearing counters 1
clearing VSAN counters 2
computing link cost 3
configuring globally 4
configuring Hello time intervals 5
configuring link cost 6
configuring on a VSAN 7
configuring on interfaces 8
dead time intervals 9
default settings 10
description 11
disabling 12
disabling on interfaces 13
disabling routing protocols 14
displaying database information 15
displaying global information 16
enabling 17
fault tolerant fabrics 18
in-order delivery 19
interoperability 20
link state record defaults 21
reconvergence times 22
redundant links 23
resetting configuration 24
resetting to defaults 25
retransmitting intervals 26
routing services 27
topology examples 28
FSPF routes
configuring 1
description 2
full zone sets
considerations 1
enabling distribution 2
fWWNs
configuring fcalias members 1
Fx ports
VSAN membership 1

G

GOLD diagnostics
configuring 1
expansion modules 2
health monitoring 3
runtime 4

H

hard zoning
description 1
HBA ports
configuring area FCIDs 1
health monitoring diagnostics
information 1
Hello time intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
host ports
kinds of 1

I

ICMPv2 1
IDs
Cisco vendor ID 1 2
serial IDs 2
IEEE 802.1p 1
IEEE 802.1w 1
IEEE 802.3x 1
IGMP forwarding
MAC address 1
IGMP snooping
queries 1
IGMPv1 1
IGMPv3 1
in-order delivery
configuring drop latency time 1
displaying status 2
enabling for VSANs 3
enabling globally 4
guidelines 5
reordering network frames 6
reordering port channel frames 7
indirect link failures
recovering 1
interface speed 1
interfaces
adding to SAN port channels 1 2
assigning to VSANs 2
chassis ID 3
configuring descriptions 4
configuring fcalias members 5
configuring receive data field size 6
displaying SFP information 7
isolated states 8
options 9
SFP types 10
suspended states 11
UDLD 12
VSAN membership 13
Interfaces 1
interop modes
configuring mode 1 1
default settings 2
description 3
interoperability
configuring interop mode 1 1
description 2
verifying status 3
VSANs 4
IOD 1
ISLs
SAN port channel links 1
isolated port 1
isolated VLANs 1 2
isolated VSANs
description 1
displaying membership 2

L

LACP
system ID 1
license key files
description 1
licenses
claim certificates 1
displaying information 2
evaluation 3
grace period expiration 4
grace periods 5
host IDs 6
identifying features in use 7
incremental 8
installation options 9
installing key files 10
missing 11
node-locked 12
obtaining key files 13
PAK 14
permanent 15
terminology 16
transferring between switches 17
uninstalling 18
Link Aggregation Control Protocol 1
link costs
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
Link Failure
detecting unidirectional 1
link failures
recovering 1
linkDown notifications 1
linkUp notifications 1
load balancing
attributes 1
attributes for VSANs 2
configuring 3
description 1 2
guarantees 5
SAN port channels 6
logical unit numbers 1
LUNs
displaying discovered SCSI targets 1

M

MAC addresses
configuring secondary 1
management access
description 1
management interfaces
displaying information 1
using force option during shutdown 2
McData
native interop mode 1
merged fabrics
autoreconfigured 1
mgmt0 interfaces
description 1
MSCHAP
enabling authentication 1
MST
CIST regional root 1
setting to default values 2
MSTP
boundary ports 1
CIST regional root 2
CIST root 3
CIST, described 4
CST 1 2
IEEE 802.1s 6
IST 7
mapping VLANs to MST instance 8
MST region 1 2 3 4
described 1
defined 2
operations between regions 3
terminology 4
operations within a region 5
CIST 6
described 7
hop-count mechanism 8
supported spanning-tree instances 9
multicast storms 1

N

N port identifier virtualization 1
N ports
FCS support 1
fctrace 2
hard zoning 3
zone enforcement 4
zone membership 5
N5K-M1008 expansion module 1
N5K-M1404 expansion module 1
name servers
displaying database entries 1
interoperability 2
LUN information 3
proxy feature 4
registering proxies 5
Node Proxy port mode 1
NP links 1
NP port mode 1
NP-ports 1
NPIV
description 1
enabling 2
NPV
configuring NP interface 1
configuring server interface 2
enabling 3
verifying 4

O

operational states
configuring on Fibre Channel interfaces 1
description 2

P

passwords
administrator 1
DHCHAP 2
setting administrator default 3
strong characteristics 4
persistent FC IDs
configuring 1
description 2
displaying 3
enabling 4
purging 5
PLOGI
name server 1
port channeling 1
port channels
administratively down 1
compatibility with DHCHAP 2
configuring Fibre Channel routes 3
interoperability 4
link changes 5
port modes
auto 1
port security
activating 1
activation 2
activation rejection 3
adding authorized pairs 4
auto-learning 5
compatibility with DHCHAP 6
configuring manually without auto-learning 7
deactivating 8
default settings 9
disabling 10
displaying configuration 11
displaying settings (procedure) 12
displaying statistics (procedure) 13
displaying violations (procedure) 14
enabling 15
enforcement mechanisms 16
fabric binding comparison 17
forcing activation 18
license requirement 19
preventing unauthorized accesses 20
port security auto-learning
description 1
device authorization 2
disabling 3
distributing configuration 4
enabling 5
guidelines for configuring with CFS 6
guidelines for configuring without CFS 7
port security databases
cleaning up 1
copying 2
copying active to config (procedure) 3
deleting 4
displaying configuration 5
interactions 6
manual configuration guidelines 7
merge guidelines 8
reactivating 9
scenarios 10
port speeds
configuring 1
port tracking
default settings 1
description 2
displaying information 3
enabling 4
guidelines 5
shutting down ports forcefully 6
port world wide names 1
PortChannels
show tech-support port-channel command 1
PortFast BPDU filtering 1
ports
VSAN membership 1
preshared keys
TACACS+ 1
primary VLANs 1
principal switches
assigning domain ID 1
configuring 2
private VLANs
community VLANs 1 2
end station access to 2
isolated trunk 3
isolated VLANs 1 2
ports 5
primary VLANs 6
promiscuous trunk 7
secondary VLANs 8
community 1
isolated 2
promiscuous 3
promiscuous ports 1
proxies
registering for name servers 1
pWWNs
configuring fcalias members 1
zone membership 2

R

RADIUS
configuring servers 1
configuring timeout intervals 2
configuring transmission retry counts 3
default settings 4
example configurations 5
network environments 6
RADIUS servers
configuring timeout interval 1
configuring transmission retry count 2
deleting hosts 3
displaying statistics 4
example configurations 5
manually monitoring 6
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol 1
RCFs
description 1
incoming 2
rejecting incoming 3
reason codes
description 1
reconfigure fabric frames 1
reduced MAC address 1
redundancy
VSANs 1
Registered State Change Notifications 1
related documents 1
reserved-range VLANs 1
retransmitting intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
roles
authentication 1
rollback
checkpoint copy 1
creating a checkpoint copy 2
default settings 3
deleting a checkpoint file 4
description 5
example configuration 6
guidelines 7
high availability 8
implementing a rollback 9
limitations 10
reverting to checkpoint file 11
verifying configuration 12
root guard 1
route costs
computing 1
RSCN
default settings 1
description 2
displaying information 3
multiple port IDs 4
suppressing domain format SW-RSCNs 5
switch RSCN 6
RSCN timers
configuration distribution using CFS 1
configuring 2
RSTP
active topology 1
BPDU 2
designated port, defined 3
designated switch, defined 4
proposal-agreement handshake process 5
rapid convergence 6
root port, defined 7
processing 1
point-to-point links 2
root ports 3
runtime checks
static routes 1
runtime diagnostics
information 1

S

SAN port channel
verifying configurations 1
SAN port Channel
default settings 1
SAN port channel protocol
configuring autocreation 1
enabling autocreation 2
SAN port channel Protocol
autocreation 1
creating channel group 2
SAN port channels
adding interfaces 1 2
comparison with trunking 2
compatibility checks 3
configuration guidelines 4
description 5
interface states 6
load balancing 7
misconfiguration error detection 8
scalability
VSANs 1
SCR
request 1
SCSI
displaying LUN discovery results 1
SCSI LUNs
customized discovery 1
discovering targets 2
displaying information 3
starting discoveries 4
SD port mode
description 1
interface modes 2
SD ports
configuring 1
secondary MAC addresses
configuring 1
secondary VLANs 1
serial IDs
description 1
server groups 1
server IDs
description 1
service requests 1
session manager
committing a session 1
configuring an ACL session (example) 2
description 3
discarding a session 4
guidelines 5
limitations 6
saving a session 7
verifying configuration 8
verifying the session 9
SFP+ transceiver 1
SFPs
displaying transmitter types 1
transmitter types 2
small computer system interface 1
Small form-factor pluggable (plus) transceiver 1
smart call home
description 1
registration requirements 2
Transport Gateway (TG) aggregation point 3
SMARTnet
smart call home registration 1
SNMP
access groups 1
group-based access 2
server contact name 3
user synchronization with CLI 4
Version 3 security features 5
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
versions 1
SNMPv3
assigning multiple roles 1
security features 2
specifying AAA parameters 3
specifying parameters for AAA servers 4
soft zoning
description 1
source IDs
call home event format 1
exchange based 2
flow based 3
in-order delivery 4
path selection 5
SPAN
egress sources 1
ingress sources 2
sources for monitoring 3
SPAN destination port mode 1
SPAN sources
egress 1
ingress 2
SPF
computational hold times 1
static routes
runtime checks 1
statistics
TACACS+ 1
storage devices
access control 1
STP
edge ports 1 2
EtherChannel 2
network ports 3
normal ports 4
port types 5
PortFast 1 2
understanding 1 2 3 4
Blocking State 1
disabled state 2
forwarding state 3
learning state 4
STP bridge ID 1
STP root guard 1
switch ports
configuring attribute default values 1
switch priorities
default 1
description 2
Switched Port Analyzer 1
sWWNs
configuring for fabric binding 1

T

TACACS+
advantages overRADIUS 1
configuring 2
configuring global timeout interval 3
description 4
displaying statistics 5
example configurations 6
field descriptions 7
global preshared keys 8
limitations 9
prerequisites 10
preshared key 11
user login operation 12
verifying configuration 13
TACACS+ servers
configuring hosts 1
configuring TCP ports 2
configuring timeout interval 3
displaying statistics 4
field descriptions 5
manually monitoring 6
verifying configuration 7
TCP ports
TACACS+ servers 1
TE port mode
classes of service 1
description 2
TE ports
fabric binding checking 1
FCS support 2
fctrace 3
FSPF topologies 4
interoperability 5
recovering from link isolations 6
trunking restrictions 7
timeout values 1
TOV
configuring across all VSANs 1
configuring for a VSAN 2
default settings 3
interoperability 4
ranges 5
tracked ports
binding operationally 1
traffic isolation
VSANs 1
trap notifications 1
troubleshooting
collecting output for technical support 1
fcping 2
fctrace 3
show tech-support command 4
verifying switch connectivity 5
trunk mode
administrative default 1
configuring 1 2
default settings 3
trunk ports
displaying information 1
trunk-allowed VSAN lists
description 1
trunking
comparison with port channels 1
configuration guidelines 2
configuring modes 3
default settings 4
description 5
displaying information 6
interoperability 7
link state 8
merging traffic 9
restrictions 10
trunking E port mode 1
trunking ports
associated with VSANs 1
trunking protocol
default settings 1
default state 2
description 3
detecting port isolation 4

U

UDLD
aggressive mode 1
defined 2
nonaggressive mode 3
unicast storms 1
Unidirectional Link Detection 1
unique area FC IDs
configuring 1
description 2
user accounts
password characteristics 1
user login
authentication process 1
authorization process 2
user roles
specifying on AAA servers 1 2
users
description 1

V

VDC
defined 1
vendor-specific attributes 1
verifying NPV 1
virtual device contexts 1
Virtual Fibre Channel interfaces
default settings 1
VLANs
extended range 1
reserved range 2
VSAN IDs
allowed list 1
description 2
multiplexing traffic 3
range 4
VSAN membership 5
VSANs
advantages 1
allowed-active 2
cache contents 3
comparison with zones (table) 1 2
compatibility with DHCHAP 5
configuring 6
configuring allowed-active lists 7
configuring FSPF 8
configuring trunk-allowed lists 9
default settings 10
default VSANs 11
deleting 12
description 13
displaying configuration 14
displaying membership 15
displaying usage 16
domain ID automatic reconfiguration 17
FC IDs 18
FCS support 19
features 20
flow statistics 21
FSPF 22
FSPF connectivity 23
interop mode 24
isolated 25
load balancing 26
load balancing attributes 27
mismatches 28
multiple zones 29
name server 30
names 31
operational states 32
port membership 33
states 34
TE port mode 35
timer configuration 36
TOV 37
traffic isolation 38
trunk-allowed 39
trunking ports 40
VSAs
format 1
protocol options 2
support description 3

W

world wide names 1
WWNs
description 1
displaying information 2
link initialization 3
secondary MAC addresses 4
suspended connections 5

Z

zone aliases
conversion to device aliases 1
zone attribute groups
cloning 1
zone databases
migrating a non-MDS database 1
release locks 2
zone members
displaying information 1
zone server databases
clearing 1
zone sets
activating 1
analyzing 2
cloning 3
considerations 4
creating 5
displaying information 6
distributing configuration 7
enabling distribution 8
exporting 9
exporting databases 10
features 11
importing 12
importing databases 13
one-time distribution 14
recovering from link isolations 15
renaming 16
viewing information 17
zones
access control 1
analyzing 2
backing up (procedure) 3
cloning 4
compacting for downgrading 5
comparison with device aliases 6
comparison with VSANs (table) 1 2
configuring aliases 8
configuring fcaliases 9
default policies 10
displaying information 11
exporting databases 12
features 1 2
importing databases 14
membership using pWWNs 15
merge failures 16
renaming 17
restoring (procedure) 18
show tech-support zone command 19
viewing information 20
zoning
description 1
example 2
implementation 3