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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4. Type secPolicyActivate.
FAILING OVER THE PRIMARY FCS SWITCH
The secFCSFailover command is used to fail over the role of the primary FCS switch to the backup
FCS switch from which the command is entered. This can be used to recover from events such as a
lost Ethernet connection to the primary FCS switch.
In addition to failing over the role of the primary FCS switch, this command moves the new primary
FCS switch to the top of the list in the FCS policy.
NOTE
Disabling a switch or removing it from the fabric does not change the order of the FCS policy.
Before issuing the secFCSFailover command, ensure that no other operations are being
simultaneously performed that cause the fabric to reconfigure: for example, haFailover or another
secFCSFailover. Otherwise, secFCSFailover might hang.
During FCS failover to a backup FCS switch, all transactions in process on the current primary FCS
switch are aborted, and any further transactions are blocked until failover is complete.
To fail over the primary FCS switch
1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.
2. Run the secFabricShow command to verify that all switches in the fabric are ready to failover.
fcaswitcha:admin> secfabricshow
Role WWN DId Status Enet IP Addr Name
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Primary 10:00:00:00:00:00:11:1c 1 Ready 10.32.163.161 "fcsswitcha"
Backup 10:00:00:00:00:00:22:2c 2 Ready 10.32.163.160 "fcsswitchb"
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Secured switches in the fabric: 2
3. If desired, view the current FCS list typing secPolicyShow "active","FCS_POLICY".
For example, type secPolicyShow from the current primary FCS switch, “fcsswitcha”:
fcsswitcha:admin> secpolicyshow "active","FCS_POLICY"
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ACTIVE POLICY SET
FCS_POLICY
PosPrimaryWWN DId swName
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1Yes 10:00:00:00:00:00:11:1c1 fcsswitcha
2No 10:00:00:00:00:00:22:2c2 fcsswitchb
4. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in as admin to the backup FCS switch to be designated as
the new primary FCS switch and type secFCSFailover.
For example, type secFCSFailover from the backup FCS switch “fcsswitchc” and then type
secPolicyShow:
fcsswitchc:admin> secfcsfailover
This switch is about to become the primary FCS switch.
All transactions of the current Primary FCS switch will be aborted.
ARE YOU SURE (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
WARNING!!!