Access Gateway Administrator's Guide (53-1001760-01, June 2010)

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 3

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Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode

Table 1 lists Fabric OS components that are supported on a switch when AG mode is enabled. “No”

indicates that the feature is not provided in AG mode. “NA” indicates this feature is not applicable

in Access Gateway mode of operation. A single asterisk (*) indicates the feature is transparent to

AG, that is AG forwards the request to the Enterprise fabric. Two asterisks (**) indicates that if the

Enterprise fabric is not a Brocade fabric, the feature may not be available.

TABLE 1 Fabric OS components supported on Access Gateway

Feature Support

Access Control Yes (limited roles)

Adaptive Networking Yes

Admin Domains No

Audit Yes

Beaconing Yes

Config Download/Upload Yes

DHCP Yes

Environmental Monitor Yes

Error Event Management Yes

Extended Fabrics No

Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Yes*

Fabric Manager Yes**

Fabric Watch Yes (limited)

FICON (includes CUP) No

High Availability Hot Code Load

Native Interoperability Mode NA

License Yes**

Log Tracking Yes

Management Server NA

Manufacturing Diagnostics Yes

N_Port ID Virtualization Yes

Name Server NA

Network Time Protocol (NTP) No (no relevance from fabric perspective)

Open E_Port NA

Performance Monitor Yes (Basic PM only, no APM support)

Persistent ALPA Yes

Port Mirroring No

QuickLoop, QuickLoop Fabric Assist No

Security Yes (ADS/DCC Policy)

SNMP Yes