Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-1000606-01, October 2007)

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Modifying the port configuration

FIGURE 88 Access Gateway Device Display

Modifying the port configuration

You can configure the port types (N_Port, F_Port) on each individual port on an Access Gateway

enabled module.

When you configure ports, you can specify a global configuration policy using the Port Configuration

Policy button. By default, Advanced is selected and sets the initial defaults for port types, groups,

and the F-port to N-port mappings. When the policy is Automatic, the port type assignments and

mappings are configured automatically based on device and switch connections and internal

load-balancing, and grouping and user controls are disabled.

When you configure ports, perform the tasks in the following order:

• Configure N-Ports, if necessary.

Use the Edit Configuration button to configure a port.

• Configure N-Port groups

• Configure F-Port to N-Port mappings

You can set up primary and secondary mappings. The secondary mapping is the N-Port to

which an F-Port is mapped when the primary N-Port mapping goes offline.

Creating port groups

You can group a number of N_ports (and their mapped F_ports) together to connect to multiple

independent fabrics or to create performance optimized ports. To group a number of ports, you

must create a new port group and assign desired N_ports to it. The N_port grouping option is

enabled by default, and all N_ports are members of a default port group 0 (pg0). Access Gateway

prevents failover of F_ports across N_port groups