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keepalive
In an FCoE map, enable the monitoring of FIP keepalive messages (if it is disabled).
Syntax
keepalive
Parameters None
Defaults FIP keepalive monitoring is enabled on Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces.
Command Modes FCOE MAP
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the M I/O Aggregator and MXL 10/40GbE Switch with the FC Flex
IO module.
Usage
Information
FIP keepalive (FKA) messaging is used to detect if other FCoE devices are reachable.
To remove FIP keepalive monitoring from an FCoE map, enter the no keepalive command.
Related
Commands
fcoe-map — creates an FCoE map which contains the parameters used in the communication between
servers and a SAN fabric.
show fcoe-map — displays the Fibre Channel and FCoE configuration parameters in FCoE maps.
show fcoe-map
Display the Fibre Channel and FCoE configuration parameters in FCoE maps.
Syntax
show fcoe-map [brief | map-name]
Parameters
brief Displays an overview of currently configured FCoE maps.
map-name Displays the FC and FCoE configuration parameters in a specified FCoE map. The
FCoE map is applied on Ethernet (FCoE) and FC ports to transmit FC storage
traffic to a specified fabric.
Command Modes
● EXEC
● EXEC Privilege
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the M I/O Aggregator and MXL 10/40GbE Switch with the FC Flex
IO module.
Usage
Information
Use the show fcoe-map command to display the FC and FCoE parameters used to configure server-
facing Ethernet (FCoE) and fabric-facing FC ports in all FCoE maps on a switch with the FC Flex IO
module NPIV proxy gateway.
In each FCoE map, the values for the fabric ID and FC-MAP that identify the SAN fabric to which FC
storage traffic is sent, and the FCoE VLAN to be used must be unique.
An FCoE map is used to identify the SAN fabric to which FCoE storage traffic is sent and to virtualize
the switch with the FC Flex IO module FC ports so that they appear to downstream server CNA ports as
FCoE Forwarder (FCF) ports on an FCoE network.
The following table describes the show fcoe-map brief output shown in the example below.
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