Reference Guide

76 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference

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bladeDisable

Disables all user ports on a blade.

Synopsis bladedisable slot

Description Use this command to disable all user ports on a blade. All Fibre Channel ports on the blade are taken offline. If the

switch was connected to a fabric through this blade, the remaining switches reconfigure, and the switch

reconfigures based on the other blade ports. As each port is disabled, the front panel LED changes to a

slow-flashing amber.

After issuing bladeDisable on a slot in a chassis, switchShow displays the user ports in the disabled state. The

blade is still shown as enabled in both switchShow and slotShow output.

The blade must be disabled before making configuration changes or before running many of the diagnostic tests.

The blade does not need to be disabled before rebooting or powering off.

You cannot disable a blade when the blade is faulted, powered off, or running diagnostics.

This command disables the ports on a single blade. To disable the ports in an entire chassis, use the

chassisDisable command.

Notes This command appears to execute successfully along with slotpoweron operation on an AP Blade, but the

command is ignored.

The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric restrictions that may be in place. Refer to "Using Fabric

OS Commands" and "Command Availability" for details.

Operands This command has the following operand:

slot

Specifies the slot number for the ports to be disabled.

Examples To disable a blade in slot 5:

switch:admin> bladedisable 5

Blade 5 is being disabled...Done

To verify that the user ports on the blade are disabled:

switch:admin> switchshow -slot 5

switchName: DCX57_9

switchType: 62.1

switchState: Online

switchMode: Native

switchRole: Subordinate

switchDomain: 9

switchId: fffc09

switchWwn: 10:00:00:05:1e:40:4a:00

zoning: ON (all_cfg)

switchBeacon: OFF

FC Router: OFF

FC Router BB Fabric ID: 128