Brocade Access Gateway Admin Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000605-02, June 2008)

16 Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Access Gateway policies
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FIGURE 5 Failback policy behavior
Enabling the Failback policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the ag
--failbackshow command with the n_portnumber operand to display the failover
setting.
switch:admin> ag --failbackshow 13
Failback on N_Port 13 is not supported
3. Enter the ag --failbackenable command with the n_portnumber operand to enable failover.
switch:admin> ag --failbackenable 13
Failback policy is enabled for port 13
Disabling the Failback policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the ag
--failbackshow command with the n_portnumber operand to display the failback
setting.
switch:admin> ag --failbackshow 13
Failback on N_Port 13 is supported
3. Enter the ag --failbackdisable command with the n_portnumber operand to disable failover.
switch:admin> ag --failbackdisable 13
Failback policy is disabled for port 13
F_A2
Hosts
Access Gateway
Edge Switch
Fabric
(Switch_A)
enabled
NPIV
F_4
F_3
F_2
F_1
N_1
F_A1
enabled
NPIV
N_3
F_B1
enabled
NPIV
Host_1
Host_2
Host_3
Host_4
F_5
Host_5
F_6
Host_6
F_7
Host_7
F_8
Host_8
Edge Switch
(Switch_B)
N_4
F_B2
enabled
NPIV
N_2
Legend
Physical connection
Mapped online
Failover route online
Original mapped route
(offline)
Example 3