Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 5)

Options for displaying statistics...........................................................75
Maintaining and Troubleshooting FICON..................................................................................77
Firmware management in a FICON environment........................................... 77
Upgrade and downgrade considerations............................................ 77
Firmware download disruption............................................................ 77
Non-disruptive firmware upload and download................................... 78
Configuration restoration in a FICON environment......................................... 78
Traffic Isolation Zoning....................................................................................79
Determining ports for the TI Zone....................................................... 80
Enhanced TI Zoning............................................................................80
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite............................................................... 87
Port fencing..................................................................................................... 87
Defining port fencing........................................................................... 87
Settings for FICON environments....................................................... 88
FICON information.......................................................................................... 88
Link incidents...................................................................................... 88
Registered listeners............................................................................ 89
Node identification data.......................................................................89
FRU error reporting............................................................................. 89
Swapping port area IDs...................................................................................91
Important notes................................................................................... 91
Blade swapping...............................................................................................91
Common FICON issues.................................................................................. 92
Troubleshooting FICON.................................................................................. 95
General information to gather for all cases......................................... 95
Switched point-to-point topology checklist.......................................... 96
Cascaded topology checklist...............................................................97
Gathering additional information......................................................... 97
CUP diagnostics..................................................................................97
Troubleshooting FICON CUP..........................................................................97
Troubleshooting NPIV..................................................................................... 98
Platforms Supporting FICON....................................................................................................99
Introduction..................................................................................................... 99
Supported platforms with end-of-support announcements............................. 99
Currently supported platforms.......................................................................100
Supported Brocade blades............................................................................101
Unsupported blades.......................................................................... 102
Basic Switch Configuration................................................................................................... 103
Address Binding Examples....................................................................................................107
Sequential address binding...........................................................................107
Example scripts for binding ports...................................................... 108
Port-based address binding.......................................................................... 112
Example scripts for binding ports...................................................... 112
Unbinding multiple ports................................................................................116
Configuration Information Record......................................................................................... 117
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