Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002156-01, April 2011)

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Chapter
3
Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode
In this chapter
•Access Gateway policies overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
•Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
•Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
•Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
•Device Load Balancing policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
•Persistent ALPA policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
•Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
•Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
•Trunking in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
•Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
•Per-Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
•Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
•Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
•Considerations for the Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Access Gateway policies overview
This chapter provides detailed information on all Access Gateway policies. These policies can be
used to control various advanced features, such as failover, failback, and trunking, when used in
Access Gateway mode.
Displaying current policies
You can run the following command to display policies that are currently enabled or disabled on a
switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag
--policyshow command.
The following example shows that Port Grouping and Automatic Port Configuration policies are
enabled while Advanced Device Security and WWN Load Balancing are disabled.
switch:admin> ag --policyshow
Policy_Description Policy_Name State
--------------------------------------------------
Port Grouping pg Enabled
Auto Port Configuration auto Disabled
Advanced Device Security ads Enabled