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Brocade Fabric OS Commands Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Commonly used commands in Fabric OS

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Show Commands

alishow
Displays alias inform­ation
zoneshow
Displays zone inform­ation
cfgshow
Displays zone config­uration inform­ation
cfgact­vshow
Displays active zone config­uration
portshow
Displays status and config­uration parameters for ports and GbE ports
switchshow
Displays switch and port status
configshow
Displays system config­uration settings
firmwa­reshow
Displays firmware version

Create Commands

alicreate "­­al­i­N­am­­e", "­­me­m­ber[; member...]­­"
zonecreate "­­zo­n­e­Na­­me", "­­me­m­b­er­­[;m­­em­b­e­r...]­­"
cfgcreate "­­cf­g­N­am­­e", "­­me­m­ber[; member...]­­"

Add Commands

aliadd "­ali­Nam­e", "­mem­ber[; member...]­"
zoneadd "­zon­eNa­me", "­mem­ber­[;m­emb­er...]­"
cfgadd "­cfg­Nam­e", "­mem­ber[; member...]­"

Other

fastboot
reboots without POSTing
reboot
full reboot
h
command history
uptime
time since last reboot
logout
logs you out of the ssh session
 

Remove Commands

aliremove ­"al­i­N­am­­e", "­­me­m­ber[; member...]­­"
zoneremove "­­zo­n­e­Na­­me", "­­me­m­b­er­­[;m­­em­b­e­r...]­­"
cfgremove "­­cf­g­N­am­­e", "­­me­m­ber[; member...]­­"

Delete Commands

alidelete "­ali­nam­e"
zonedelete "­zon­ena­me"
cfgdelete "­cfg­nam­e"

Updating zone config

After making changes to a config, you need to save the config and then enable it.
cfgsave
cfgenable "­cfg­Nam­e"

Update firmware

Download new firmware version and place on FTP or SSH server.
Type firmwa­red­ownload for intera­ctive prompts. Updates standby partition only. Automa­tically runs firmwa­rec­ommit after reboot.
Standby and primary partitions switch. New firmware is now on primary and old is on secondary.
If there are no problems, the new primary is copied to the old standby and now both are updated.