Brocade FICON Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002753-01, March 2013)

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FMS mode and FICON CUP

Fabric OS command limitations and considerations

This section describes limitations and considerations for using Fabric OS commands with FMS

mode enabled. For a list of Fabric OS commands related to FICON, refer to FICON commands 12.

• The following Fabric OS commands return a “switch busy” response if they are issued when the

host-based management application is performing a write operation. This serialization

prevents interference from out-of-band management applications when a host-based

management program is being used to administer the switch.

• You cannot use the portCfgPersistentEnable and portCfgPersistentDisable commands to

persistently enable and disable ports. Refer to the procedure “Persistently enabling and

disabling ports for CUP” on page 46 for instructions.

• Specifying a range of ports for the portname command will fail except for the first port in the

range. FMS does not permit multiple ports with the same name.

Displaying FMS mode

Use the ficonCupShow fmsmode command to display the FMS mode enabled or disabled state for

the switch.

Enabling FMS mode

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter ficonCupSet fmsmode enable.

3. Enter the ficonCupShow fmsmode command to verify if FMS mode is enabled.

Disabling FMS mode

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter ficonCupSet fmsmode disable.

3. Enter the ficonCupShow fmsmode command to verify if FMS mode is disabled.

bladeEnable switchCfgPersistentDisable

portDisable switchDisable

portEnable switchEnable

portName switchName

portShow switchShow

portSwap