Instruction Manual

Disabling and e
nabling a switch
By default, th
e switch is enabled after power on and diagnostics and switch initialization
routines complete. You can disable and re-enable the switch a s necessary.
To disable:
1. If you have not
already done so, connect to the switch and log in as admin as
described in
Connect to the Command Line Interface.
2. Issue the switchDisable command.
All Fibre Channel ports on the swi tch a re taken offline. If the switch was part of a
fabric, the
fabric reconfigures.
To enable:
1. Ifyouhavenotalreadydoneso,connecttotheswitchandloginasadmin as
described in Connect to the Command Line Interface.
2. Issue the s
witchEnable command.
All Fibre Channel ports that pass the Power-on Self Test (POST) a re enabled. If the
switch has interswitch links (ISLs) to a fabric, it joins the fabric.
Disabling and enabling a port
To enable a port:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin as described in Connect to the
Command Line Interface.
2. Issue portenable por tnumber where portnumber is the port number of the port
you want to enable.
To disable:
1. If you have not already done so, connect to the switch and log in as admin as
described in Connect to the Command Line Interface.
2. Issue portdisable portnumber wher e portnumber is the port number of
the port you want to disable.
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