Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide (53-1000605-01, October 2007)

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Supported hardware and software
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for 6.0.0, documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of Fabric OS v6.0.0 Access
Gateway Administrator’s Guide:
• Brocade 200E switch
• Brocade 4012 switch
• Brocade 4016 switch
• Brocade 4018 switch
• Brocade 4020 switch
• Brocade 4024 switch
What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
• Information that was added:
• Support for the 4018 embedded switch
• N_Port grouping policy
• Automatic Port Configuration (APC)
• Preferred Secondary N_Port mapping is an optional secondary failover path for an N_Port
• Information that was changed:
• Path Failback and Failover policies have been enabled to incorporate:
 Preferred Secondary N_Port
 N_Port grouping
 Automatic Port Configuration (APC)
• Enhancements to the Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Information that was deleted:
• none
For further information, refer to the release notes.
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