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Access Gateway
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v6.1.0

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Document History
The following table lists all versions of the Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide.
Corporate Headquarters
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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 15 Jun 2007
Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-01 Added support for new policies
and changes to N_Port
mappings.
19 Oct 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
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Contents
About This Document
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix
Key terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Optional Brocade features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1 Getting Started
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brocade Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Access Gateway port types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Comparison of Access Gateway ports to standard switch ports. 3
How Access Gateway maps ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Upgrade and downgrade considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Considerations with policies enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Port Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2 Enabling Policies on Switches in Access Gateway Mode
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Access Gateway policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Showing current policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Enabling the Advance Device Security policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Disabling the Advance Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting which devices can log in if ADS policy is enabled. . . . . . 9
Setting which devices cannot log in if ADS policy is enabled . . 10
Removing devices from the list of devices allowed at login . . . 10
Adding new devices to the list of devices allowed at login . . . . 10
Displaying the list of devices on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . .12
Disabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . .12
Rebalancing F_Ports with APC policy enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Failover Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Enabling the Failover policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Disabling the Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Enabling the Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cold Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Port Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Creating a port group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Adding an N_Port to a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Deleting an N_Port from a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Removing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Disabling the Port Group policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Access Gateway N_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Access Gateway trunking considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Trunk group creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting up F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Assigning a Trunk Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Enabling the DCC policy on trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Enabling Access Gateway trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
F_Port Trunking monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Chapter 3 Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the fabric and edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Setting the Fabric OS switch to Native Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Enabling NPIV on the M-EOS switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Connectivity to Cisco Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Access Gateway routing requirements with Cisco fabrics. . . . .34
Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Workaround for QLogic-based devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Editing Company ID List if no FC target devices on switch . . . . 35
Adding or deleting an OUI from the Company ID List . . . . . . . .36
Enabling Flat FCID mode if no FC target devices on switch . . . 37
Editing Company ID list if target devices on switch . . . . . . . . . . 37
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Port States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Re-joining switches to a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Reverting to a previous configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 4 Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Port Initialization in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Unlocking N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Displaying N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Verifying port mapping and status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Displaying N_Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Displaying port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Adding F_Ports to an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Removing F_Ports from an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Adding a preferred secondary N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Deleting F_Ports from a preferred secondary N_Port . . . . . . . .50
Appendix A Troubleshooting
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About This Document
This document is a procedural guide to help SAN administrators configure and manage Brocade
Access Gateway.
This preface contains the following sections:
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
How this document is organized
The document contains the following topics:
•Chapter 1, “Getting Started” describes how to use Access Gateway to create seamless
connectivity to any Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric.
•Chapter 2, “Enabling Policies on Switches in Access Gateway Mode”describes how to enable
policies on a switch in Access Gateway mode.
•Chapter 3, “Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway” describes how to connect multiple
devices using Access Gateway.
•Chapter 4, “Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode” describes how to configure ports in
Access Gateway mode.
•Appendix A, “Troubleshooting” provides symptoms and troubleshooting tips to resolve issues.
Supported hardware and software
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. For v6.1.0, documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document. All Fabric OS switches must be running v5.1 or
later; all M-EOS switches must be running M-EOSc 9.1 or later, M-EOSn must be running 9.6.2 or
later, and Cisco switches with SAN OS must be running 3.0 (1) and 3.1 (1) or later. Access Gateway
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What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
Information that was added
•Platforms
•Brocade 300 and 4424
•16-bit routing (8 Gbps platforms only)
•Performance
•Access Gateway masterless trunking
•Seamless failover
•Configuration
•Direct Target Attach
•Security
•Advance Device Security policy
•Enhanced routing
For further information, refer to the release notes.
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notices formats.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive. The ficonCupSet and ficonCupShow commands are an exception to this convention.