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164 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

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Disabling Access Gateway mode

To disable Access Gateway mode, perform the following steps.

1. Select a switch.

2. Click Configure > Switch Admin.

The Switch Administration dialog box displays.

3. Click Disable in the Access Gateway Mode section.

4. Click Apply.

5. Click Yes to restart the device in native switch mode.

Viewing the Access Gateway settings

You can view the effective Access Gateway settings for the selected switch. The view can be

customized. To view the Access Gateway settings select the Access Gateway Devices tab.

Port configuration

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

enabled switch. 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; user controls are disabled.

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

1. Configure N_Ports, if necessary. Use the Port Configuration Wizard to configure a port.

2. Configure N_Port groups.

3. 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.

4. Configure WWN-N_Port mappings

Creating port groups

You can group a number of N_Ports (and its 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.

NOTE

If you want to distribute F_Ports among groups, you can leave all ports in the default port group 0,

or you can disable N_Port grouping.