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Enabling npiv on m-eos switches – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide

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Fabric and Edge switch configuration

4

switchType: 76.6

switchState: Online

switchMode: Native

switchRole: Subordinate

switchDomain: 13

switchId: fffc01

switchWwn: 10:00:00:05:1e:03:4b:e7

zoning: OFF

switchBeacon: OFF

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See

Table 3

on page 9 for a description of the port state.

If the switch is in Native mode, you can enable AG mode; otherwise, set the switch to Native mode,
and then reboot the switch.

Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin on the M-EOS switch.

2. Enable the MS services by entering the following commands:

For the Mi10K switch, enter the following command.

fc osmsState

where

vfid

Virtual fabric identification number.

state

Can be enable for the enabled state or disable for the disabled state.

For other McDATA switches, enter the following command.

config OpenSysMs setState

where

osmsState

Can be enable or 1 for the enabled state or disable or 0 for the disabled
state.

3. Enable NPIV functionality on the Edge fabric ports so that multiple logins are allowed for each

port. Enter the following command on the M-EOS switch to enable NPIV on the specified ports.

config NPIV

Your M-EOS switch is now ready to connect.

NOTE

You can run the agshow command to display Access Gateway information registered with the fabric.
When an Access Gateway is exclusively connected to Non-Fabric-OS-based switches, it will not show
up in the agshow output on other Brocade Switches in the fabric.