Reference Guide
Disabling broadcast frame forwarding
1. Log in to the FC router as admin.
2. Enter the following command:
fcr:admin> fcrbcastconfig --disable -f fabricID
The
fabricID
variable is the FID of the edge or backbone fabric on which you want to disable broadcast frame forwarding.
Resource monitoring
It is possible to exhaust resources, such as proxy PIDs. Whenever a resource is exhausted, Fabric OS generates an error message. The
messages are described in the
Fabric OS Message Reference
.
You can monitor FC router resources using the fcrresourceshow command. This command shows FC router resource limits and usage
and includes the following:
∙ LSAN zones and LSAN devices —The information shows the maximum versus the currently used zones and device database
entries. Each proxy or physical device constitutes an entry. If LSAN zones are defined in two edge fabrics, they are counted as
two and not one. One device imported into multiple edge fabrics counts multiple times.
The default maximum number of LSAN zones is 3,000. Refer to Setting the maximum LSAN count on page 522 for
information on changing this limit.
∙ Proxy Device Slots — The physical and proxy devices use the 10,000 device slots.
The information shows the maximum pool size for translate phantom node and port WWNs and shows the number of translate
node and port WWNs from this pool.
∙ Phantom Node WWNs
∙ Phantom Port WWNs
∙ Max proxy devices
∙ Max NR_Ports
The following example shows the use of the fcrresourceshow command to display physical port (EX_Port) resources.
switch:admin> fcrresourceshow
Daemon Limits:
Max Allowed Currently Used
-------------------------------
LSAN Zones: 3000 28
LSAN Devices: 10000 51
Proxy Device Slots: 10000 20
WWN Pool Size Allocated
---------------------------------
Phantom Node WWN: 8192 5413
Phantom Port WWN: 32768 16121
Port Limits:
Max proxy devices: 4000
Max NR_Ports: 1000
Currently Used(column 1: proxy, column 2: NR_Ports):
0 | 0 34
1 | 3 34
4 | 0 0
5 | 0 0
6 | 0 0
7 | 0 0
8 | 6 34
9 | 6 34
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