Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 49)

The following tables compare the achievement of port persistent enable and disable states with
interactions between the ASM Mode setting, IPL state. and use of the portdisable or portenable
command.
ASM 1 ON TABLE 4
Initial IPL state Blocked Blocked Unblocked Unblocked
User action portenable
command
pordisable
command
portenable
command
pordisable
command
Physical state of port Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled
Port state in IPL file Unblocked Blocked Unblocked Blocked
PortCfgShow
command display for
persistent state
OFF ON OFF ON
ASM 0 OFF TABLE 5
Initial IPL state Blocked Blocked Unblocked Unblocked
User action portenable
command
pordisable
command
portenable
command
pordisable
command
Physical state of port Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled
Port state in IPL file Blocked Blocked Unblocked Unblocked
PortCfgShow
command display for
persistent state
OFF OFF OFF OFF
Following are summaries of important points in the tables:
• The only time "Persistent Disable ON" should display with the PortCfgShow command is when
you disable a port and ASM is set to ON.
• The only time the IPL file changes is when ASM is set to ON.
• When FMS mode is enabled, persistence is controlled by the interaction of ASM mode and the IPL
file.
Clearing the FICON management database
Perform the following steps to clear RLIR and RNID records from the FICON management database.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter ficonClear rlir to remove all the RLIR records from the local RLIR database.
3. Enter ficonClear rnid to remove all the RNID records marked "not current" from the local RNID
database.
Automating CS_CTL mapping
The CS_CTL-based frame prioritization feature allows you to prioritize the frames between a host and
target as having high, medium, or low priority, depending on the value of the CS_CTL field in the FC
Clearing the FICON management database
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