FICON Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001771-01, June 2010)

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Chapter
2
Administering FICON Fabrics
In this chapter
•User security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
•Preparing a switch for FICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
•Configuring switched point-to-point FICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
•Configuring Cascaded FICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
•FICON and FICON CUP in Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
•Clearing the FICON management database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
User security considerations
To administer FICON, you must have one of the following roles associated with your login name on
the switch:
• Admin
• Operator
• SwitchAdmin
• FabricAdmin
The User and BasicSwitchAdmin roles are view-only. The ZoneAdmin and SecurityAdmin roles have
no access.
In an Admin Domain-aware fabric, if you use the FICON commands (ficonShow, ficonClear,
ficonCupShow, and ficonCupSet) for any Admin Domain other than AD0 and AD255, the current
switch must be a member of that Admin Domain. The output is not filtered based on the Admin
Domain.
Preparing a switch for FICON
The following steps are provided for you to verify and prepare a switch for use in a switched
point-to-point FICON environment. Single-switch configuration does not require insistent domain
IDs (IDIDs) or fabric binding, provided that connected channels are configured for single-byte
addressing. However, you should configure IDID to ensure that domain IDs are maintained.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Verify the management IPs have been set up.
3. Verify the switches can be seen by your management tool.
4. Verify the switches have the correct version of Fabric OS.