Contents

A - B - C - D - E - F - H - I - L - M - N - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - Z -

Index

A

AAA
DHCHAP authentication 1
active zone sets
considerations 1
enabling distribution 2
address allocation cache
description 1
authentication
fabric security 1

B

Brocade
native interop mode 1
build fabric frames
description 1

C

company IDs
FC ID allocations 1
Contiguous Domain ID Assignments
About 1

D

dead time intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
default zones
description 1
interoperability 2
policies 3
destination IDs
in-order delivery 1
path selection 2
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
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
enabling 8
group settings 9
hash algorithms 10
passwords for local switches 11
sample configuration 12
Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol 1
domain IDs
allowed lists 1
configuring allowed lists 2
configuring CFS distribution 1 2
configuring fcalias members 4
contiguous assignments 5
description 6
distributing 7
enabling contiguous assignments 1 2
interoperability 9
preferred 10
static 11
domain manager
fast restart feature 1
DPVM
default settings 1
description 2
guidelines and limitations 3
verifying 4
drop latency time
configuring 1
configuring for FSPF in-order delivery 2
displaying information 3

E

E ports
fabric binding checking 1
FSPF topologies 2
recovering from link isolations 3
trunking configuration 4
EFMD
displaying statistics 1
fabric binding 2
fabric binding initiation 3
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
Exchange Fabric Membership Data 1
exchange IDs
in-order delivery 1
path selection 2

F

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 login 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
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
displaying information 5
displaying statistics 6
domain IDs 7
domain manager fast restart 8
enabling autoreconfiguration 9
incoming RCFs 10
restarts 11
switch priorities 12
fctimers
displaying configured values 1
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 Security Protocol 1
FLOGI
description 1
flow statistics
clearing 1
counting 2
description 3
displaying 4
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

H

hard zoning
description 1
HBA ports
configuring area FCIDs 1
Hello time intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2

I

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
interfaces
assigning to VSANs 1
configuring fcalias members 2
VSAN membership 3
interop modes
configuring mode 1 1
default settings 2
description 3
interoperability
configuring interop mode 1 1
description 2
VSANs 3
IOD 1
isolated VSANs
description 1
displaying membership 2
IVR
verifying 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
IVR Zones
description 1
IVR Zonesets
description 1

L

link costs
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
link failures
recovering 1
load balancing
attributes 1
attributes for VSANs 2
configuring 3
description 4
guarantees 5

M

MAC addresses
configuring secondary 1
McData
native interop mode 1
merged fabrics
autoreconfigured 1

N

N ports
hard zoning 1
zone enforcement 2
zone membership 3
name servers
displaying database entries 1
interoperability 2
proxy feature 3
registering proxies 4
NPIV
enabling 1

P

passwords
DHCHAP 1
persistent FC IDs
configuring 1
description 2
displaying 3
enabling 4
purging 5
PLOGI
name server 1
port channels
compatibility with DHCHAP 1
configuring Fibre Channel routes 2
interoperability 3
link changes 4
port security
activating 1
activation 2
activation rejection 3
auto-learning 4
compatibility with DHCHAP 5
configuring manually without auto-learning 6
deactivating 7
default settings 8
disabling 9
displaying settings (procedure) 10
displaying statistics (procedure) 11
displaying violations (procedure) 12
enabling 13
enforcement mechanisms 14
fabric binding comparison 15
forcing activation 16
license requirement 17
preventing unauthorized accesses 18
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
copying 1
copying active to config (procedure) 2
deleting 3
interactions 4
manual configuration guidelines 5
merge guidelines 6
reactivating 7
scenarios 8
port tracking
default settings 1
description 2
guidelines 3
shutting down ports forcefully 4
port world wide names 1
ports
VSAN membership 1
principal switches
assigning domain ID 1
configuring 2
proxies
registering for name servers 1
pWWNs
configuring fcalias members 1
zone membership 2

R

RCFs
description 1
incoming 2
rejecting incoming 3
reconfigure fabric frames 1
redundancy
VSANs 1
Registered State Change Notifications 1
retransmitting intervals
configuring for FSPF 1
description 2
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
runtime checks
static routes 1

S

scalability
VSANs 1
SCR
request 1
secondary MAC addresses
configuring 1
soft zoning
description 1
source IDs
in-order delivery 1
path selection 2
SPF
computational hold times 1
static routes
runtime checks 1
storage devices
access control 1
switch priorities
default 1
description 2
sWWNs
configuring for fabric binding 1

T

TE ports
fabric binding checking 1
FSPF topologies 2
interoperability 3
recovering from link isolations 4
trunking restrictions 5
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
trunk mode
configuring 1 2
default settings 2
trunk-allowed VSAN lists
description 1
trunking
configuration guidelines 1
configuring modes 2
default settings 3
description 4
interoperability 5
link state 6
merging traffic 7
restrictions 8
trunking ports
associated with VSANs 1
trunking protocol
default settings 1
default state 2
description 3
detecting port isolation 4

U

unique area FC IDs
configuring 1
description 2

V

VSAN IDs
allowed list 1
description 2
range 3
VSAN membership 4
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
deleting 11
description 12
displaying configuration 13
displaying membership 14
displaying usage 15
domain ID automatic reconfiguration 16
FC IDs 17
features 18
flow statistics 19
FSPF 20
FSPF connectivity 21
interop mode 22
isolated 23
load balancing 24
load balancing attributes 25
multiple zones 26
names 27
name server 28
operational states 29
port membership 30
states 31
timer configuration 32
TOV 33
traffic isolation 34
trunk-allowed 35
trunking ports 36

W

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

Z

zone aliases
conversion to device aliases 1
zone attribute groups
cloning 1
zone databases
migrating a non-Cisco SAN 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
renaming 16
restoring (procedure) 17
viewing information 18
zoning
description 1
example 2
implementation 3