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
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Consequences of removing an encryption switch
Table 3 explains the impact of removing switches.
Figure 8 shows the warning message that displays if you click Remove to remove a switch.
FIGURE 8 Removal of switch warning
TABLE 3 Switch removal warnings
Switch configuration Impact of removal
The switch is the only switch in the encryption
group.
The encryption group is also removed.
The switch has configured encryption targets on
encryption engines.
• The switch is configured to encrypt traffic to one or more
encryption targets.
• The target container configuration is removed.
• The encrypted data remains on the encryption target but
is not usable until the encryption target is manually
configured on another encryption switch.
WARNING: The encryption target data is visible in encrypted
format to zoned hosts. It is strongly recommended that you
remove the encryption targets from all zones before you disable
encryption. Otherwise, hosts may corrupt the encrypted data by
writing directly to the encryption target without encryption.
The switch has encryption engines in HA
Clusters.
The HA Clusters are removed. High availability is no longer
provided to the other encryption engine in each HA Cluster.