FICON Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001771-01, June 2010)

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FICON commands

NOTE

The Fabric OS CLI supports only a subset of the Brocade management features for FICON fabrics.

The full set of FICON CUP administrative procedures is available using the Brocade Data Center

Fabric Manager and Web Tools software features. You can also use an SNMP agent and the FICON

Management Information Base (MIB).

Table 1 summarizes the Fabric OS CLI commands that can be used for managing FICON fabrics.

For detailed information on these commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference.

TABLE 1 Fabric OS commands related to FICON

Command Description

Standard Fabric OS commands

bladeSwap Swaps the area numbers for matching port pairs of two blades.

configure Sets the domain ID and the insistent domain ID mode.

configUpload Backs up the current configuration.

firmwareShow Displays the current version of the firmware.

licenseAdd Adds a license to the switch. The license key is case sensitive and

must be entered exactly.

portAddress --bind Binds the 16-bit address to the lower two bytes of a port 24-bit

Fibre Channel address.

portAddress --unbind Unbinds the currently bound address for the specified port.

portSwap Swaps ports.

portSwapDisable Disables the portSwap command.

portSwapEnable Enables the portSwap command.

portSwapShow Displays information about swapped ports.

supportShowCfgEnable ficon Turns on logging of FICON information on the switch.

Commands specific to FICON

ficonclear rlir Removes all RLIR records from the local RLIR database.

ficonclear rnid Removes all outdated RNID records from the local RNID

database.

ficoncfg

--set LIRR <portnumber> Sets the current LIRR device port number persistently.

ficoncfg

--reset LIRR <portnumber> Clears the currently configured LIRR port number.

ficonshow ilir [fabric] Displays FRU failure information on the local switch or on the

fabric, if specified.

ficonshow lirr [fabric] Displays registered listeners for link incidents for the local switch

or for the fabric, if specified.

ficonshow rlir [fabric] Displays link incidents for the local switch or for the fabric, if

specified.