Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Manual de servicio

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November 24, 2008

Access Gateway

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS 6.2.0

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Document History

The following table lists all versions of the Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide.

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000430-01 First version January 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000633-01 Added support for the 200E June 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-01 Added support for new policies

and changes to N_Port

mappings.

October 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-02 Added support for new

platforms:

300 and the 4424.

Added support for new features:

- Masterless Trunking

- Direct Target Connectivity

- Advance Device Security policy

- 16- bit routing

March 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-03 Added support for:

- Cascading Access Gateway.

July 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-04 Updated to fix the table of

contents

July 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1001189-01 Updated for FOS 6.2 November 2008

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Contents

About This Document

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Key terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Optional Brocade features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Chapter 1 Getting Started

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brocade Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Access Gateway port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Comparison of Access Gateway ports to standard switch ports. 4

How Access Gateway maps ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Access Gateway limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for switches in AG mode . . 6

Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Port Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 2 Enabling Policies on Switches in Access Gateway Mode

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Access Gateway policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Showing current policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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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

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Connectivity to Cisco Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Access Gateway routing requirements with Cisco fabrics. . . . .36

Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Workaround for QLogic-based devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Editing Company ID List if no FC target devices on switch . . . . 37

Adding or deleting an OUI from the Company ID List . . . . . . . . 38

Enabling Flat FCID mode if no FC target devices on switch . . .39

Editing Company ID list if target devices on switch . . . . . . . . . .39

Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Enabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Port States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Saving the Access Gateway configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Rejoining switches to a fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Reverting to a previous configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Chapter 4 Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Port Initialization in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Unlocking N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Displaying N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Verifying port mapping and status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Displaying N_Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Displaying port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Adding F_Ports to an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Removing F_Ports from an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adding a preferred secondary N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Deleting F_Ports from a preferred secondary N_Port . . . . . . . .52

Appendix A Troubleshooting

Index

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Figures

Figure 1 Access Gateway and fabric switch comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Figure 2 Port usage comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Figure 3 Example F_Port-to-N_Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Figure 4 Example 1 and 2 Failover policy behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 5 Failback policy behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Figure 6 Port Group Zero (pg0) setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 7 Port grouping behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 8 Port Group 1 (pg1) setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 9 Access Gateway cascading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 10 Initialized ports in Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 11 Example of adding an external F_Port (F9) on an embedded switch . . . . . . . . . 47

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