Optionally Licensed Software - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Release Note

The portBeacon CLI command has been added in Fabric OS 6.2.1. It allows individual ports to be
identified by enabling a special LED function. The portBeacon command has the following
characteristics:
Function: Sets port beaconing mode on or off.
Syntax: portbeacon - mode [slot]/port
Description: Enables or disables port beaconing mode on a specified port. This command works
with 4-Gb (or larger) FC ports, with the exception of the HP StorageWorks SAN Director 6 Port
10-Gb FC ISL Blade (FC10-6).
When beaconing mode is enabled on a port, the port LED flashes amber and green for 2.5
seconds each, in an alternating pattern, and continues until you turn it off. Beaconing mode is
useful if you want to locate a specific port.
Beaconing mode takes over the port LEDs. The normal flashing LED pattern associated with an
active, fault, or disabled port is suppressed, and only the beaconing pattern is displayed. Other
commands are still executable and functional. However, if diagnostic frame-based tests, such as
the portLoopbackTest, are executed, the diagnostic LED pattern is interleaved with the port
beaconing pattern.
Operands:
Examples:
To turn beaconing mode on: switch:admin> portbeacon
To turn beaconing mode off: switch:admin> portbeacon
Diagnostics restrictions
The porttest and spinfab commands are not supported on the following ports in Fabric OS 6.2.1
or earlier:
Ports connected to shared-area ports (ports 16—47 on 48-port blades)
Ports connected to ports with area swapped
Inter-chassis links (ICLs)
Slave ports in trunk groups
Long-distance ports
Ports connected to a logical switch and base switch (Fabric OS 6.2.x only), if VF is enabled

Optionally licensed software

The following are optionally licensed features in Fabric OS 6.2.x:
Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports
via a license key upgrade (applies to select switch models).
Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth
over long distances. (Depending on the platform, the distance can be up to 3,000 km.)
ISL Trunking—Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for en-
hanced network performance and fault tolerance. It also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking
on the products that support Access Gateway deployment.
Advanced Performance Monitoring—Enables performance monitoring of networked storage re-
sources. This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
High-Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as FC-IP Services)—For the HP Storage-
Works B-series Multi-protocol Router blade and 400 MP Router, this license key also includes the
FC Fast Write (FCFW) feature and IPsec capabilities.
Accelerator for FICON license—Enables unique FICON emulation support for IBM's Global Mirror
(formerly XRC) application (including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and EMC's XRC) as well as tape
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enable turns beaconing mode on; disable turns beaconing mode off.
enable 1/0
disable 2/1