Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001189-01, April 2009)

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Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Enabling the Advanced Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Disabling the Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Setting which devices can log in if ADS policy is enabled. . . . . 10
Setting which devices cannot log in if ADS policy is enabled . . 11
Removing devices from the list of devices allowed at login . . . 11
Adding new devices to the list of devices allowed at login . . . . 11
Displaying the list of devices on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Automatic Port Configuration policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Disabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rebalancing F_Ports with APC policy enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Enabling the Failover policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Disabling the Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Failback policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Enabling the Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Cold Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Creating a port group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Adding an N_Port to a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Deleting an N_Port from a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Removing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Disabling the Port Group policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Access Gateway trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Access Gateway trunking considerations for the Edge switch . 23
Trunk group creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Assigning a Trunk Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Enabling the DCC policy on trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Enabling Access Gateway trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
F_Port Trunking monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Access Gateway Cascading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chapter 3 Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Connectivity of multiple devices overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Fabric and Edge switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Setting the Fabric OS switch to Native Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Enabling NPIV on the M-EOS switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35