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34 Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Port Grouping policy
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FIGURE 8 Port grouping behavior
When a dual redundant fabric configuration is used, F_Ports connected to a switch in AG mode can
access the same target devices from both of the fabrics. In this case, you must group the N_Ports
connected to the redundant fabric into a single port group. It is recommended to have paths fail
over to the redundant fabric when the primary fabric goes down. Refer to
Figure 9 .
FIGURE 9 Port group 1 (pg1) setup
Adding an N_Port to a port group
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgadd command with the appropriate operands to add an N_Port to a specific
port group. In the following example N_Port 14 is added to port group 3.
Note that if you add more than one N_Ports, you must separate them with a semicolon.
switch:admin> ag --pgadd 3 14
N_Port[s] are added to the port group 3
F_Port1
F_Port2
F_Port3
N_Port2
N_Port1
N_Port4
N_Port3
F_Port4
PG1
PG2
F_Port5
AG
Fabric-1
Fabric-2
Storage
Array-1
Storage
Array-2
F_Port6
F_Port7
F_Port8
F_Port1
N_Port1
F_Port2
F_Port3
N_Port2
F_Port4
PG1 AG
Fabric-1
Fabric-2
Storage
Array