Reference Guide

Ensuring fabric domains share policies
Whether your intention is to create new FCS policies or manage your current FCS policies, you must follow certain steps to ensure the
domains throughout your fabric have the same policy.
The local-switch WWN cannot be deleted from the FCS policy.
1. Create the FCS policy using the secPolicyCreate command.
2. Activate the policy using the secPolicyActivate command.
If the command is not entered, the changes are lost when the session is logged out.
3. Distribute the policy using the distribute -p command.
distribute -p policy_list -d switch_list
You can specify an asterisk (*) for the switch_list to send the policy to all switches.
Creating an FCS policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions, or an account with OM permissions for the Security
RBAC class of commands.
2. Enter the secPolicyCreate "FCS_POLICY" command.
Example of creating an FCS policy
The following example creates an FCS policy that allows a switch with domain ID 2 to become a primary FCS and domain ID 4
to become a backup FCS:
switch:admin> secpolicycreate "FCS_POLICY", "2;4"
FCS_POLICY has been created
3. To save or activate the new policy, enter either the secPolicySave or the secPolicyActivate command. Once the policy has been
activated you can distribute the policy.
NOTE
FCS policy must be consistent across the fabric. If the policy is inconsistent in the fabric, then you will not be able to
perform any fabric-wide configurations from the primary FCS.
Modifying the order of FCS switches
1. Log in to the Primary FCS switch using an account with admin permissions, or an account with OM permissions for the
Security RBAC class of commands.
2. Type secPolicyShow "Defined", "FCS_POLICY" .
This displays the WWNs of the current Primary FCS switch and backup FCS switches.
3. Enter the secPolicyFCSMove command.
secpolicyfcsmove from to
Specify the existing and new positions of the switch in the list using the from and to options. Alternatively, you can specify the
positions interactively at the prompts.
Example of moving an FCS policy
Configuring Security Policies
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