Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000435-01, June 2007)

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Publication Number: 53-1000435-01

Chapter

Administering FICON CUP Fabrics

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Enabling port-based routing on the Brocade 4100, 5000, and 48000 220

• Enabling or disabling FMS mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

• Configuring FMS parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

• Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

• Displaying the control device state . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

• Configuring CUP port connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

About FICON CUP fabrics

Control Unit Port (CUP) is a protocol for managing FICON directors. Host-based management

programs manage the switches using CUP protocol by sending commands to the emulated control

device implemented by Fabric OS. A Brocade switch or director that supports CUP (Brocade 3900,

24000, or 48000) can be controlled by one or more host-based management programs or director

consoles, such as Brocade Web Tools or Brocade Fabric Manager. (Refer to the Fabric Manager

Administrator’s Guide for information about Fabric Manager.) The director allows control to be

shared between host-based management programs and director consoles.

To use FICON CUP, you must:

• Install a FICON CUP license on a FICON director.

• Enable FMS mode on the FICON director.

• Configure CUP attributes (FMS parameters) for the FICON director.

You can use Web Tools for all of these tasks. You can also use Web Tools to manage FICON

directors (when FMS mode is enabled on those directors) to:

• Display the control device state

• Display a code page

• Manage port connectivity configuration

You do not need to install the FICON CUP license to perform FICON CUP management; you must

install the FICON CUP license, however, if your switch is to enforce traffic between the FICON

director and the host-based management program.