Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v3.2.0, v4.4.0, v5.0.1, v5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 (53-1000244-02, June 2007)

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The possible FCS policy states are shown in Table 2.

You might not want to put Fabric OS v2.6.x switches in the FCS policy if your primary FCS switch is

running Fabric OS v3.2.0, v4.4.0, v5.0.1, v5.1.0, or v5.2.0 and using multiple user accounts (MUA)

because Fabric OS v2.6.x does not support MUA. See the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for more

information on MUA.

CHANGING THE POSITION OF A SWITCH WITHIN THE FCS POLICY

Use the secPolicyFCSMove command to change the order in which switches are listed in the FCS

policy. The list order determines which backup FCS switch becomes the primary FCS switch if the

current primary FCS switch fails.

To modify the order of FCS switches:

1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.

2. Type secPolicyShow “Defined”, “FCS_POLICY”.

This displays the WWNs of the current primary FCS switch and backup FCS switches.

3. Type secPolicyFCSMove; then provide the current position of the switch in the list and the

desired position at the prompts.

Alternatively, enter secPolicyFCSMove “From, To”. From is the current position in the list of the

FCS switch and To is the desired position in the list for this switch.

For example, to move a backup FCS switch from position 2 to position 3 in the FCS list, using

interactive mode:

primaryfcs:admin> secpolicyfcsmove

PosPrimary WWN DId swName.

=================================================

1Yes 10:00:00:60:69:10:02:181 switch5.

2No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:5a2 switch60.

3No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:133 switch73.

Please enter position you’d like to move from : (1..3) [1] 2

Please enter position you’d like to move to : (1..3) [1] 3

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DEFINED POLICY SET

FCS_POLICY

PosPrimaryWWN DId swName

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1Yes 10:00:00:60:69:10:02:181 switch5.

2No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:133 switch73.

3No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:5a2 switch60.

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TABLE 2 FCS Policy States

Policy State Characteristics

No policy, or policy with no entries Not possible if secure mode is enabled.

Policy with one entry A primary FCS switch is designated but there are no backup FCS

switches. If the primary FCS switch becomes unavailable for any reason,

the fabric is left without an FCS switch.

Policy with multiple entries A primary FCS switch and one or more backup FCS switches are

designated. If the primary FCS switch becomes unavailable, the next

switch in the list becomes the primary FCS switch.