1. On the web browser, enter the IP address of the Brocade switch and press Enter.
2. In the Web Tools login dialog box displayed, enter the account and password.

   The default account and password are admin and password.

Web Tools works properly only when Java is installed on the host. Java 1.6 or later is recommended.

Figure 5-2 displays example information.

Figure 5-2 Switch information

Major parameters are described as follows:

• Fabric OS version indicates the switch version. The interoperability between switches and storage systems varies with the switch version. Use only switches with verified interoperability.
• Type is a decimal consisting of an integer and a decimal fraction. The integer indicates the switch model and the decimal fraction indicates the switch template version. You only need to pay attention to the switch model. Table 5-1 describes mapping between switch types and names.
• Ethernet IPv4 indicates the switch IP address.
• Effective configuration indicates the currently effective configurations. This parameter is critical to subsequent zone configurations. In this example, the currently effective configuration is ss.

1. On the web browser, enter the IP address of the Brocade switch and press Enter.

   The Web Tools switch login dialog box is displayed.

2. Enter the account and password (admin and password by default) to log in.

In normal conditions, port indicators on the switch are steady green after the corresponding ports have been connected to hosts and storage arrays using optical fibers. The example illustrated in Figure 5-3 uses ports 0, 1, 4, and 5.

Figure 5-3 Port status

Choose Configure > Zone Admin from the main menu of Web Tools.

Figure 5-4 Zone Admin page

On the Zone Admin page, click the Zone tab. In Member Selection List, check whether all related ports have been identified, as shown in Figure 5-5.

Figure 5-5 Identified ports

In this example, the hosts use ports 0 and 1, while the storage systems use ports 4 and 5. The display indicates that the switch has correctly identified the devices connected by the four ports.

On the Zone tab page, click New Zone and enter a name (Zone001 in this example). Add port 0 (connecting to port P0 of a host) and port 4 (connecting to controller A of a storage system) to this zone, as shown in Figure 5-6.

Figure 5-6 Creating a zone

Use the same method to create Zone002 to Zone004. Add ports 1 and 5 to Zone0002, ports 0 and 5 to Zone003, and ports 1 and 4 to Zone004.

On the Switch View tab page, identify the effective configuration file, as shown in Figure 5-7.

Figure 5-7 Effective configuration file

On the Zone Admin page, click the Zone Config tab. In the Name drop-down list, choose the effective configuration file New_config.

In Member Selection List, select Zone001 to Zone004 and add them to the configuration file.

Click Save Config to save the configuration and then click Enable Config for the configuration to take effect.

Figure 5-8 shows the configuration on the GUI.

Figure 5-8 Adding zones to the configuration file

On the Name Server tab page, verify that the ports have been added to the zones and the zones have taken effect (marked * in the upper right corner), as shown in Figure 5-9.

Figure 5-9 Verifying the configuration