Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Manage Access Gateway-moded Switches
In this chapter
•Introduction to Access Gateway Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
•Supported Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
•Access Gateway-moded switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Introduction to Access Gateway Management
The Access Gateway feature allows a Brocade switch to act as a transparent “port expander”,
connecting multiple FC devices (typically host HBA ports) to a single FC fabric port (F_Port).
Although the Access Gateway-moded switch uses switching logic to allow the attached devices to
send and receive FC traffic to the fabric, the Access Gateway-moded switch is not recognized by the
fabric as a switch; it does not consume a domain ID and does not participate in normal
switch-to-switch traffic.
Additionally, if a cascaded Access Gateway setup is discovered, Fabric Manager does not show the
link between the two Access Gateway-moded switches.
Supported Features
In some configurations, Fabric Manager can manage both the enterprise fabric to which an Access
Gateway-moded switch is connected and the Access Gateway-moded switch itself. The following
table lists this support.
TABLE 18 Access Gateway-moded support
Access Gateway-moded
switch
FOS version
Switch to which the Access Gateway-moded switch
is connected
FOS version
Level of support
5.2.1 5.2.1 or earlier Not supported: you can discover the
enterprise fabric to which the
Access Gateway-moded switch is
connected, but devices connected
through the Access Gateway-moded
switch appear to be directly
connected to the enterprise fabric.
5.2.1 5.3.0 or later Full management support
5.3.0 or later 5.3.0 or later Full management support