Foundry CLI manual?
Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos module. Thanks, David
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:51:57AM -0500, David Hubbard wrote:
Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos module.
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not. You fail to mention which product you're interested in, so I'm going to take a stab and hope that it's something current with a pos card like an MLX/XMR. If you're still rocking an old B2P622, I'd say you're in need of far more help than any manual can provide. :) http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_user/current/NetIron_04... http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_diag/current/NetIronXMR... -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not.
Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the documentation. On the other hand there are several vendor that are very forthcoming vendors that even send you test equipment for free. Guess which company's I'm recommending to customers. cheers Jens -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://www.quux.de | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: jenslink@guug.de | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> writes:
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not.
Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the documentation.
Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract. I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal search engines are usually a bad joke at best. Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe? Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother putting up a web server. I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys! Bjørn
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:28 +0100 Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> writes:
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not.
Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the documentation.
Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract. I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal search engines are usually a bad joke at best.
Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe?
Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother putting up a web server.
I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys!
Agree. The first thing a vendor can do to have a chance of you buying their gear is to make it as easy as possible to transition to it, and that includes becoming familiar with it's CLI, and working out how much effort you'll need to spend on converting to different syntax. What's so proprietary about how to configure OSPF that it needs to be kept a secret?
Bjørn
It would be a good idea to have a bug database that accessible to paying support customers. Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications joe@via.net 650-207-0372 cell 650-213-1302 office 650-969-2124 fax On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:51:57AM -0500, David Hubbard wrote:
Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos module.
Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, but the list of manuals is not. You fail to mention which product you're interested in, so I'm going to take a stab and hope that it's something current with a pos card like an MLX/XMR. If you're still rocking an old B2P622, I'd say you're in need of far more help than any manual can provide. :)
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_user/current/NetIron_04... http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/xmr_diag/current/NetIronXMR...
-- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
If you have older foundry gear (IronCore, JetCore, MG8) do a google search for "Using Packet Over SONET Modules". Jonas On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 16:51, David Hubbard wrote:
Anyone have the Foundry/Brocade CLI reference PDF they could send me? Brocade feels you should have a support contract to have a list of commands the hardware you purchased offers and I'm having difficulty with a oc12 pos module.
Thanks,
David
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