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

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N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Unlocking N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Chapter 3 Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Access Gateway policies overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Displaying current policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
How the ADS policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Enabling and disabling the Advanced Device Security policy. .29
Setting the list of devices allowed to log in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Setting the list of devices not allowed to log in . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Removing devices from the list of allowed devices . . . . . . . . .30
Adding new devices to the list of allowed devices . . . . . . . . . . .30
Displaying the list of allowed devices on the switch . . . . . . . . . 31
ADS policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy. . . 31
Automatic Port Configuration policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
How the APC policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Enabling and disabling the APC policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Automatic Port Configuration policy considerations . . . . . . . . .32
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy . . . 33
Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
How port groups work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Adding an N_Port to a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Deleting an N_Port from a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Removing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Disabling the Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Port Grouping policy modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login
Balancing mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Rebalancing F_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Enabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode . . . . . . . . . . 38
Disabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode . . . . . . . . .38
Displaying the current fabric name monitoring timeout value .38
Setting the current fabric name monitoring timeout value. . . . 39
Port Grouping policy considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the
Port Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Device Load Balancing Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling WWN Load Balancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Disabling Device Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Device Load Balancing considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41