Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Fabric OS Command Reference

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AG is supported only on selected Brocade hardware platforms. Refer to the Access Gateway
Administrator’s Guide for Hardware support and AG configuration procedures.

In non-AG mode, the only two actions available are --modeenable and --modeshow.

Operands

This command has the following operands:

help

Displays the command usage.

show

Displays the current configuration of the Access Gateway. This includes all
N_Ports and F_Ports that are currently online, failover and failback settings
as well as any online F_Ports that are currently mapped to N_Ports. Failover
and failback policies are displayed as enabled (1) or disabled (0).

modeshow

Displays the current Access Gateway operating mode of the switch as either
enabled or disabled.

modeenable

Enables Access Gateway mode on a switch. Long distance mode settings
should be cleared for all ports on the NPIV edge switch to which the AG is
connected. Otherwise, the NPIV switch port displays the long distance port
type along with the F_Port.

modedisable

Disables Access Gateway mode on a switch. After AG mode is disabled, the
switch reboots automatically and comes online with default zone access set
to "No Access". In order to merge the switch to a fabric, set the default zone to
"All Access" and disable/enable the E_Port.

policyshow

Displays the supported AG port policies and their status as either enabled or
disabled. AG supports four types of policies:

•

Port Grouping (pg) policy: This policy manages failover of an F_Port to a
set of related N_Ports in a port group.

•

Auto Port Configuration (auto): When this policy is enabled, the AG
enabled switch automatically detects available ports and maps F_Ports
to N_Ports. Auto port configuration is disabled by default.

•

Advanced Device Security (ADS) policy. This policy restricts access to the
fabric at the AG level to a set of authorized devices. Unauthorized access
is rejected and the system logs a RASLOG message. You can configure
the list of allowed devices for each F_Port by specifying their Port WWN.
Refer to the ag --ads* commands for information on managing
advanced device security. ADS policy is disabled by default, which means
that all devices can connect to the switch.

•

WWN Based Load Balancing policy: This policy routes device logins to the
least loaded port in the port group to which they are mapped.

policyenable policy

Enables the specified port policy for the Access Gateway. When a new policy
is enabled, all port related configuration settings are lost. Use the
configUpload command to save the current port configuration. Valid policies
are:

Enables the port grouping policy. A default port group "pg0" is created, which
includes all configured N_Ports assigned to the policy. Enabling port grouping
policy disables the Get Fabric Name policy.