Releasing A Port From A Pod Set; Disabling And Enabling Switches - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Releasing a port from a POD set

Releasing a port removes it from the POD set; the port appears as unassigned until it comes back online.
Persistently disabling the port ensures that the port cannot come back online and be automatically
assigned to a POD assignment.
After a port is assigned to a POD set, the port is licensed until it is manually removed from the POD port set
using the licensePort --release command. When a port is released from its POD port set (Base,
Single, or Double), it creates a vacancy in that port set.
To release a port from a POD set:
1. Connect to the switch and log in on an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Issue the switchDisable command to take the switch offline.
switch:admin> switchdisable
3. Issue the switchShow command to verify the switch state is offline.
4. Issue the licensePort
switch:admin> licenseport --release 0
5. Issue the licensePort
switch:admin> licenseport --show
24 ports are available in this switch
Full POD license is installed
Dynamic POD method is in use
24 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
12 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
12 port assignments are provisioned by a full POD license
10 ports are assigned to installed licenses:
10 ports are assigned to the base switch license
0 ports are assigned to the full POD license
Ports assigned to the base switch license:
1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6*, 8*, 21, 22, 23
Ports assigned to the full POD license:
None
Ports not assigned to a license:
0, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
switch:admin>
6. Issue the switchEnable command to bring the switch back online.
7. Issue the switchShow command to verify the switch state is now online.

Disabling and enabling switches

By default, the switch is enabled after power is applied and diagnostics and switch initialization routines
have finished. You can disable and reenable it as necessary.
To disable a switch:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Issue the switchDisable command.
All Fibre Channel ports on the switch are taken offline. If the switch was part of a fabric, the fabric is
reconfigured.
To enable a switch:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Issue the switchEnable command.
All Fibre Channel ports that passed the POST test are enabled. If the switch has interswitch links (ISLs) to
a fabric, it joins the fabric.
44 Standard features
release command to remove the port from the POD license.
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show command to verify the port is no longer assigned to a POD set.
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