Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual page 271

Configuring Fabric Binding
Procedure
Step 1
Enable the fabric configuration feature.
Step 2 Configure a list of sWWNs and their corresponding domain IDs for devices that are allowed to access the
fabric.
Step 3 Activate the fabric binding database.
Step 4
Copy the fabric binding active database to the fabric binding config database.
Step 5 Save the fabric binding configuration.
Step 6
Verify the fabric binding configuration.
Enabling Fabric Binding
The fabric binding feature must be enabled in each switch in the fabric that participates in the fabric binding.
By default, this feature is disabled in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. The configuration and
verification commands for the fabric binding feature are only available when fabric binding is enabled on a
switch. When you disable this configuration, all related configurations are automatically discarded.
To enable fabric binding on any participating switch, follow these steps:
Procedure
Step 1
switch# configure terminal
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2 switch(config)# feature fabric-binding
Enables fabric binding on that switch.
Step 3 switch(config)# no feature fabric-binding
(Optional) Disables (default) fabric binding on that switch.
Example
View the status of the fabric binding feature of a fabric binding-enabled switch by issuing the show
fabric-binding status command.
switch# show fabric-binding status
VSAN 1:Activated database
VSAN 4:No Active database
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