Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Cascaded FICON setup

• Checks the fabrics for any merge issues.

• Turns on the insistent domain ID (IDID) flag on all of the switches in both fabrics.

• Clears Admin Domain, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and zone databases, if they exist, from one

of the fabrics (you select which fabric from within the wizard).

NOTE

Clearing the ACL database in a large fabric might take a long time; for example, in a 50-switch

fabric, this operation might take from 30 minutes to 1 hour.

• Configures High Integrity Fabric Configuration (HIFC) on the seed switch of the other fabric.

• Fabric-wide consistency policy is configured to include SCC in strict mode.

• SCC policy is created or modified to limit connectivity to only the switches in both fabrics.

• Enables port-based routing on 4 Gbps platform switches.

• Disables Dynamic Load Sharing (DLS) on all switches.

• Enables In-Order Delivery (IOD) on all switches.

• (Optional) Configures long distance settings on selected ports (requires Extended Fabric

license).

• (Optional) Turns on FICON Management Server (FMS) mode on all switches. If some switches

already have FMS mode enabled, it is re-enabled.

If you select FMS mode to be enabled on all switches and if some of the switches do not have a

CUP license, then after successful configuration, you can access the Port Connectivity (PDCM)

matrix, but the host system cannot communicate with the FICON Management Server unless you

install a CUP license. If a CUP license is later installed on these switches, then FMS mode must be

re-enabled on these switches.

NOTE

It is recommended that you do a configuration backup on all switches before performing the fabric

merge. This helps you to revert back to the original switch configuration if necessary or desired.

Merging two fabrics for cascaded FICON

1. Click Tasks > Cascaded FICON Setup > Merge two fabrics for cascaded FICON setup.

The merge wizard shown in Figure 173 on page 274 displays.