Brocade Web Tools is the native, embedded graphical user interface (GUI) for managing individual Brocade switches and directors running Fabric OS (FOS). It is accessed by navigating to the switch's IP address in a web browser. Web Tools provides a comprehensive set of features for configuration, zoning, monitoring, and troubleshooting a single switch. It serves as the primary graphical alternative to the command-line interface (CLI) for on-box management, offering a visual representation of the switch, its ports, and connectivity.

A. SAN Manager: This is a generic term. While NetApp has tools that manage SAN environments, it is not the name of the native Brocade switch GUI.

B. Enterprise Fabric Services: This refers to a suite of licensed advanced features within Fabric OS, such as Fabric Vision, but it is not the management tool itself.

C. Device Manager: This was a component within the larger Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) management platform, used to launch an element manager, not the native, on-board GUI.

1. Broadcom Inc.

Brocade Fabric OS Administration Guide

9.1.x

FOS-91x-ADMIN-GUIDE

Page 371

Chapter 15 "Brocade Web Tools": "Brocade Web Tools is an embedded graphical user interface (GUI) that enables you to monitor and manage single switches and fabrics. You can perform most of the switch management tasks from Web Tools that you can from the command-line interface (CLI)."

2. NetApp

TR-4080 SAN Configuration Guide

Page 18

Section 2.3.1 "Brocade Switch Initial Setup": "After the IP address is set

you can access the switch through a web browser by entering the IP address. This action launches the Brocade Web Tools management interface." This document

relevant to NetApp environments

explicitly identifies Web Tools as the tool for initial GUI-based configuration.