Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide (53-1000244-01, November 2006)

3-10 Secure Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000244-01

Failing Over the Primary FCS Switch

The secFCSFailover command is used to fail over the role of the primary FCS switch to the backup

FCS switch from which the command is entered. This can be used to recover from events such as a lost

Ethernet connection to the primary FCS switch.

In addition to failing over the role of the primary FCS switch, this command moves the new primary

FCS switch to the top of the list in the FCS policy.

During FCS failover to a backup FCS switch, all transactions in process on the current primary FCS

switch are aborted, and any further transactions are blocked until failover is complete.

To fail over the primary FCS switch

1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.

2. Run the secFabricShow command to verify that all switches in the fabric are ready to failover.

3. If desired, view the current FCS list typing secPolicyShow "active","FCS_POLICY".

For example, type secPolicyShow from the current primary FCS switch, “fcsswitcha”:

4. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in as admin to the backup FCS switch to be designated as the

new primary FCS switch and type secFCSFailover.

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Disabling a switch or removing it from the fabric does not change the order of the FCS policy.

Before issuing the secFCSFailover command, ensure that no other operations are being simultaneously

performed that cause the fabric to reconfigure: for example, haFailover or another secFCSFailover.

Otherwise, secFCSFailover might hang.

fcaswitcha:admin> secfabricshow

Role WWN DId Status Enet IP Addr Name

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Primary 10:00:00:00:00:00:11:1c 1 Ready 10.32.163.161 "fcsswitcha"

Backup 10:00:00:00:00:00:22:2c 2 Ready 10.32.163.160 "fcsswitchb"

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Secured switches in the fabric: 2

fcsswitcha:admin> secpolicyshow "active","FCS_POLICY"

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ACTIVE POLICY SET

FCS_POLICY

Pos Primary WWN DId swName

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1 Yes 10:00:00:00:00:00:11:1c1 fcsswitcha

2 No 10:00:00:00:00:00:22:2c2 fcsswitchb