Brocade Access Gateway Admin Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000605-02, June 2008)

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Chapter
4
Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode
This chapter explains how to configure ports in Access Gateway mode and how to implement
Access Gateway masterless trunking.
In this chapter
•Port Initialization in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•N_Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
•Unlocking N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
•Displaying N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
•Verifying port mapping and status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
•Displaying N_Port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
•Displaying port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
•Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Adding F_Ports to an N_Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
•Removing F_Ports from an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•Adding a preferred secondary N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
•Deleting F_Ports from a preferred secondary N_Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Port Initialization in Access Gateway mode
To ensure that all hosts are brought online when a switch in Access Gateway mode starts up, the
ports are initialized in the following manner:
1. When you enable a switch to AG mode, N_Ports are initialized only if they belong to the default
factory configuration of the switch. During N_Port initialization all the F_Ports are disabled
(kept offline).
The ports are enabled or disabled as follows:
• Enabled (online) if the port receives a fabric login event and is connected to an F_Port of
an edge switch that supports NPIV (N_Port ID virtualization).
• Disabled (offline) if the port is not connected to a fabric or is connected to a fabric port
that does not support NPIV.
2. All F_Ports mapped to online N_Ports are enabled.
3. F_Ports mapped to an offline N_Port with the failover policy enabled fail over to an online
N_Port.