In some of my previous articles here and here I explained how to obtain a supportsave via BNA (Brocade Network Advisor) and/or DCFM (Data Centre Fabric Manager) and which one to grab. But what happens if you don’t have BNA or are not able to manage these switches via BNA. The best way to do this is to implement the “supportftp” settings. Continue reading
Why FCoE is bad for Business (Continuity)
Sigh….. yet another post to debunk some FCoE marketing and explain in some more details why FCoE is not good for Business Continuity (or business in general). Continue reading
Brocade trunks and the lack thereof
I had an interesting case the week. According to the customer there had been some maintenance activities on their cabling infrastructure and shortly thereafter the ISL’s would come up but there was absolutely no way these two would form a trunk. First thought is what happened in the configuration, DWDM/CDWM changes, switch configuration modified etc etc. Continue reading
Brocade HCM on Windows does not start
Due to an (yet) unknown cause it seems the webcomponent of the Host Connectivity Manager in Brocade HCM (the agent part of the adapter driver) has placed an incorrect value in the abyss (webserver) configuration file (abyss.conf). The “ServerRoot” entry points to C;\hbaagent whereas it should’ve pointed to “<install dir>\BROCADE\Adapter\driver\util\hbaagent”.
The issue happened in this case on a Windows 2008 R2 64bit SP1 EE server. If you rectify the entry the HCM agent will most likely start and your problem is solved.
Hope this helps.
Erwin