Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.2.0 (53-1001201-04, May 2009)

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Viewing and editing group properties

Members tab

The Group Members tab lists group switches, their role, and their connection status with the group

leader. The tab displays the configured membership for the group (none of the table columns are

editable). The list can be different from the members displayed in the Configure Encryption dialog

box if some configured members are unmanaged, missing, or in a different group.

Possible Connection Status values are as follows:

• Group Leader - this switch is the group leader so there is no connection status.

• Trying to Contact - the member is not responding to the group leader. This may occur if the

member switch is not reachable by way of the management port, or if the member switch does

not believe it is part of the encryption group.

• Configuring - the member switch has responded and the group leader is exchanging

information. This is a transient condition that exists for a short time after a switch is added or

restored to a group.

• OK - the member switch is responding to the group leader switch.

• Not Available - the group leader is not a managed switch, so connection statuses are not being

collected from the group leader.

Members tab Remove button

You can click the Remove button to remove a selected switch or an encryption group from the

encryption group table.

• You cannot remove the group leader unless it is the only switch in the group. If you remove the

group leader, DCFM also removes the HA cluster, the target container, and the tape pool (if

configured) that are associated with the switch.

• If you remove a switch from an encryption group, DCFM also removes the HA cluster and target

container associated with the switch.

NOTE

If the encryption group is in a degraded state, DCFM does not remove the HA clusters or target

containers associated with the switch. In this case, a pop-up error message displays.

• If you remove the last switch from a group, DCFM also deletes the group.