Prohibiting Ports; Entering Ficon Port Configuration Information - Cisco DS-C9216I-K9 Configuration Manual

Chapter 23 Configuring FICON

Prohibiting Ports

To prevent implemented ports (see
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you prohibit ports, the specified ports are prevented from communicating with each other.
Unimplemented ports are always prohibited.
Note
Prohibit configurations are always symmetrically applied—if you prohibit Port 0 from talking to Port
15, Port 15 is automatically prohibited from talking to Port 0.
If an interface is already configured in E or TE mode and you try to prohibit that port, your prohibit
Note
configuration is rejected. Similarly, if a port is not up and you prohibit that port, the port is not allowed
to come up in E mode nor in TE mode.

Entering FICON Port Configuration Information

To view the latest FICON information, you must click the Refresh button. See the
Note
Refresh Note" section on page 23-15
To display FICON Port Configuration information, follow these steps:
Step 1 From Device Manager, choose FICON > VSANs. You see the FICON VSAN configuration dialog box.
Step 2 Ensure that the VSANs tab is enabled.
Click anywhere in the row for the VSAN for which you want to configure port information.
Step 3
Click Port Configuration to display the Port Configuration dialog box.
Step 4
Enter the port configuration information. Click Apply to save the configuration information, or click
Step 5
Cancel to close the dialog box without saving the changes.
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23-9) from talking to each other, you can configure two or more ports to be in a prohibited state. If
the"Implemented and Unimplemented Port Addresses" section on
for more information.
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