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Chapter
19
Administering FICON CUP Fabrics
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following sections:
•About FICON CUP fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
•Enabling port-based routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
•Enabling or disabling FMS mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
•Configuring FMS parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
•Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
•Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
•Configuring CUP port connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
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 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.