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

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Access Gateway mode

Before enabling a switch to AG mode, you must save the switch configuration because after you

enable AG mode, some fabric information is erased, such as the zone and security databases. For

information on backing up and restoring the configuration file, refer to the Fabric OS

Administrator’s Guide.

Enabling AG mode is disruptive; the switch is disabled and rebooted. You must verify that the switch

is set to Native mode or interopmode 0. Run the switchshow command to verify the switch mode. If

the switch mode is anything other than 0, you must run the interopmode 0 command to set the

switch to Native mode. For more information on setting switches to Native mode, see “Setting the

Fabric OS switch to Native Mode” on page 33. For more information on ag commands, refer to the

Fabric OS Command Reference.

If you are setting the Brocade 300 and 200E switches to AG modes, you must enable all ports

using POD licensing before enabling Access Gateway mode.

NOTE

The maximum number of AGs that can be connected to an edge switch is 30. The maximum number

of devices that can be connected to a Fabric OS switch through AG depends on the maximum

number of local devices that are supported by Fabric OS.

Enabling Access Gateway mode

Ensure that no zoning or AD transaction buffers are active. If any transaction buffer is active,

enabling AG mode will fail with the error, “Failed to clear Zoning/Admin Domain configuration”.

1. Enter the ag

--modeenable command.

switch:admin> ag --modeenable

The switch automatically reboots and comes back online in AG mode using a factory default

F_Port to N_Port mapping. For more information on AG default F_Port to N_Port mapping, see

Table 9 on page 51.

2. Enter the ag

--modeshow command to verify that AG mode is enabled.

switch:admin> ag --modeshow

Access Gateway mode is enabled.

3. Enter the ag --mapshow command without any options to display all the mapped ports.

The ag

--mapshow command shows all the N_Ports (with the portcfgnport value of 1) even if

those N_Ports are not connected.

switch:admin> ag --mapshow

N_Port Configured_F_Ports Current_F_Ports Failover Failback PG_ID PG_Name

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0 4;5;6 4;5;6 1 0 2 SecondFabric

1 7;8;9 7;8;9 0 1 0 pg0

2 10;11 10;11 1 0 2 SecondFabric

3 12;13 12;13 0 1 0 pg0

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