Brocade Communications Systems Gateway manuals

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Brocade communications systems Gateway Service Manual (104 pages)

Brand: Brocade-communications-systems | Category: Gateways/controllers | Size: 1.64 MB |

English

Table of contents

Access Gateway

1

Contents

3

Document conventions

7

Notes, cautions, and warnings

8

Brocade resources

9

Document feedback

10

About This Document

11

Key terms for Access Gateway

12

Access Gateway Basic Concepts

15

Virtual Fabrics support

21

Device authentication support

21

Supported Fabric OS commands

22

Password distribution support

23

Access Gateway port types

24

Port state description

28

Access Gateway mapping

29

Default port mapping

30

Adding F_Ports to an N_Port

35

F_Port Static Mapping

36

Device mapping

37

Static versus dynamic mapping

40

Device mapping to N_Ports

42

Disabling device mapping

42

Enabling device mapping

43

Pre-provisioning

43

Configuring device mapping

44

Mapping priority

45

Device mapping considerations

45

N_Port configurations

46

Unlocking N_Ports

47

Persisting port online state

47

D_Port support

48

Saving port mappings

49

Displaying current policies

51

How the ADS policy works

52

Allow lists

53

ADS policy considerations

55

How the APC policy works

55

Port Grouping policy

56

How port groups work

57

Removing a port group

58

Renaming a port group

59

Port Grouping policy modes

59

Rebalancing F_Ports

60

Enabling MFNM mode

61

Disabling MFNM mode

61

Device Load Balancing policy

62

Persistent ALPA policy

63

Persistent ALPA device data

64

Failover policy

65

Failover with port mapping

66

FIGURE 11 Failover behavior

67

Failover with device mapping

69

Failback policy

71

Failback example

72

FIGURE 12 Failback behavior

73

How trunking works

75

Trunk group creation

76

Setting up trunking

76

Trunk area assignment example

76

Assigning a trunk area

76

Enabling trunking

77

Disabling F_Port trunking

78

Monitoring trunking

78

QoS: Ingress rate limiting

82

Per-Port NPIV login limit

84

Performance Monitoring

85

End-to-end monitors

86

Frame monitors

86

Direct target attachment

89

Target aggregation

91

Access Gateway cascading

92

Verifying the switch mode

93

Connectivity to Cisco fabrics

94

Troubleshooting

97

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Brocade communications systems Gateway Service Manual (62 pages)

Brand: Brocade-communications-systems | Category: Gateways/controllers | Size: 0.64 MB |

English

Table of contents

Access Gateway

1

Document History

2

Contents

3

About This Document

7

Document conventions

8

Key terms

9

Additional information

9

Other industry resources

10

Optional Brocade features

10

Getting technical help

11

Document feedback

12

Access Gateway port types

14

Port mapping

16

Port initialization

17

Failover policy

18

Failback policy

19

Example: Failback Policy

20

Configuring Access Gateway

21

Enabling Access Gateway mode

22

Disabling Access Gateway Mode

27

Before you begin

28

Disabling Access Gateway mode

29

Displaying the port mapping

34

Displaying the port status

35

Configuring port maps

36

Adding F_Ports

37

Removing F_Ports

38

Enabling the failover policy

39

Enabling the failback policy

40

Unlocking N_Port mode

42

Default Port Mapping

43

Compatibility

45

Troubleshooting

47

Appendix

49

Access Gateway commands

50

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