Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator'S Manual Download

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Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide

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Access Gateway policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Showing current policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Enabling the Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Disabling the Advance Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting which devices can log in if ADS policy is enabled. . . . . . 9
Setting which devices cannot log in if ADS policy is enabled . . 10
Removing devices from the list of devices allowed at login . . . 10
Adding new devices to the list of devices allowed at login . . . . 10
Displaying the list of devices on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . .12
Disabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy  . . . . . . . . . .12
Rebalancing F_Ports with APC policy enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Failover Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Enabling the Failover policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Disabling the Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Enabling the Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cold Failover policy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Port Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Creating a port group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Adding an N_Port to a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Deleting an N_Port from a port group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Removing a port group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Disabling the Port Group policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Access Gateway N_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Access Gateway trunking considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Trunk group creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Setting up F_Port trunking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Assigning a Trunk Area  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Enabling the DCC policy on trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuration management for trunk areas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Enabling Access Gateway trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
F_Port Trunking monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Chapter 3

Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Configuring the fabric and edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Setting the Fabric OS switch to Native Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Enabling NPIV on the M-EOS switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33