Setup Guide

TABLE 1 Fabric OS components supported in Access Gateway mode

Feature Support

Access Control

Yes (limited roles)

Adaptive Networking Yes

Admin Domains No

Audit Yes

Beaconing Yes

Bottleneck Detection No

Support is deprecated in Fabric OS 8.0.0.

Buffer Credit Recovery (CR) Yes

Refer to Buffer credit recovery support on page 17.

Config Download/Upload Yes

Device Authentication Yes

Refer to Device authentication support on page 18.

DHCP Yes

Diagnostic Port (D_Port) Yes

Refer to D_Port support on page 43.

Duplicate PWWN handling during device login Yes

Refer to Duplicate PWWN handling during device login on page 78.

Encryption Configuration and Management No

Environmental Monitor Yes

Error Event Management Yes

Extended Fabrics No

Fabric Assigned PWWN (FA-PWWN) Yes

Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Yes*

Fabric Manager Yes**

Fabric Provisioning No

Fabric Services No

Fabric Watch No

Support is deprecated in Fabric OS 7.4.0.

Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) services No

FICON (includes CUP) No

Forward Error Correction (FEC) Yes

Refer to Forward error correction support on page 18.

High Availability Yes

Hot Code Load Yes

License Yes**

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Yes

Log Tracking Yes

Management Server NA

When a switch is operating in AG mode, RBAC features in Fabric OS are available, with limitations. For more information on the limitations, refer to

Access Gateway hardware considerations on page 24.

Access Gateway Basic Concepts

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