Cup Limitations; Ficon Commands - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

will result in a port that appears as:
Index Slot Port Address
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252 12
Port addresses that have not been assigned to a Logical Switch will appear as "uninstalled" in the PIB's Port
Descriptor.
NOTE: The CUP port address will always be xxFExx. Port Addresses xxFExx and xxFFxx are unavailable
to assign to physical ports.

CUP Limitations

You can configure up to two CUP switches as Logical Switches in a Virtual Fabric-enabled platform for
FICON FMS mode. A base switch cannot be configured as a FICON switch.
FICON CUP-enabled Logical Switches are not supported as Logical Fabric-capable Logical Switches, so
FICON Logical Switches will not participate in the use of Extended ISLs (xISLs) on the base switch.

FICON commands

Table 97 summarizes the Fabric OS CLI commands that can be used for managing FICON fabrics. For
detailed information on these commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference.
Table 97 Fabric OS commands related to FICON and FICON CUP
Command
Standard Fabric OS commands
configure
portAddress --bind
portAddress --unbind
portSwap
portSwapDisable
portSwapEnable
portSwapShow
Commands specific to FICON
ficonclear rlir
ficonclear rnid
ficonshow ilir [fabric]
ficonshow lirr [fabric]
ficonshow rlir [fabric]
ficonshow rnid [fabric]
ficonshow switchrnid
[fabric]
Commands specific to FICON CUP
ficoncupset fmsmode
ficoncupset modereg
498 FICON fabrics
28 3e0200
Description
Sets the domain ID and the insistent domain ID mode.
Use this command to bind the 16-bit address to the lower two bytes of a
port 24-bit Fibre Channel address.
Use this command to unbind the currently bound address for the
specified port.
Swaps ports.
Disables the portSwap command.
Enables the portSwap command.
Displays information about swapped ports.
Removes all RLIR records from the local RLIR database.
Removes all outdated RNID records from the local RNID database.
Displays FRU failure information on the local switch or on the fabric.
Displays registered listeners for link incidents for the local switch or for
the fabric.
Displays link incidents for the local switch or for the fabric.
Displays node identification data for all devices registered with the local
switch or all devices registered with all switches defined in the fabric.
Displays node identification data for the local switch or for the fabric.
Sets FICON Management Server mode on or off for the switch.
Sets the mode register bits for the switch.