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Administering FICON CUP Fabrics

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FICON CUP fabrics overview

Control Unit Port (CUP) is a protocol for managing FICON directors. Host-based management
programs manage the switches using CUP protocol by sending commands to the emulated control
device implemented by Fabric OS. A Brocade switch or director that supports CUP can be controlled
by one or more host-based management programs or director consoles, such as Brocade Web
Tools or Brocade Fabric Manager. (Refer to the Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide for
information about Fabric Manager.) The director allows control to be shared between host-based
management programs and director consoles.
NOTE
To perform FICON CUP operations, the EGM license must be enabled on the switches using the CUP
protocol. Also, the EGM license must be enabled to set Prohibit Dynamic Connectivity Mask (PDCM)
parameters.
To use FICON CUP, you must do the following:
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You can use Web Tools for all of these tasks. You can also use Web Tools to manage FICON
directors (when FMS mode is enabled on those directors) to do the following:
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FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
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Enabling port-based routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
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Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
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FMS parameter configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
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Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
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Viewing the control device state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
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CUP port connectivity configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
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CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
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Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
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Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Install a FICON CUP license on a FICON director.
Enable FICON Management Server (FMS) mode on the FICON director.
Configure CUP attributes (FMS parameters) for the FICON director.
Display the control device state
Display a code page
Manage port connectivity configuration
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