Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................5
Document conventions......................................................................................5
Text formatting conventions.................................................................. 5
Command syntax conventions.............................................................. 5
Notes, cautions, and warnings.............................................................. 6
Brocade resources............................................................................................ 7
Contacting Brocade Technical Support.............................................................7
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 8
About This Document................................................................................................................ 9
Supported hardware and software.................................................................... 9
Additional FICON resources............................................................................. 9
What’s new in this document............................................................................ 9
Introducing FICON...................................................................................................................11
FICON overview..............................................................................................11
Fabric OS support for FICON..............................................................11
Latency guideline................................................................................ 12
FICON concepts..............................................................................................13
FICON configurations......................................................................................14
Switched point-to-point........................................................................15
Cascaded FICON................................................................................15
Access control in FICON.................................................................................23
Cascaded zoning................................................................................ 24
Error reporting..................................................................................... 26
Secure access control.........................................................................26
FICON commands.......................................................................................... 28
Link and FC addressing.................................................................................. 30
Domain ID........................................................................................... 31
Port area............................................................................................. 31
ALPA................................................................................................... 31
Administering FICON Fabrics...................................................................................................33
User security considerations........................................................................... 33
Meeting high-integrity fabric requirements...................................................... 33
Enabling the insistent domain ID.........................................................34
Creating and activating the SCC policy...............................................34
Enabling the fabric-wide consistency policy........................................35
Enabling High-Integrity Fabric mode...................................................35
Using other security commands..........................................................36
Preparing a switch for FICON......................................................................... 36
Cascaded FICON and two-byte addressing considerations............... 37
Configuring switched point-to-point FICON.....................................................37
Configuring cascaded FICON......................................................................... 41
FCR and FICON cascading............................................................................ 42
FICON and FICON CUP in Virtual Fabrics..................................................... 43
Addressing modes.......................................................................................... 44
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