Enabling Persistently Disabled Ports - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

3. Verify that the VE_Port or VEX_Port is online, use the switchShow command to view and verify

Enabling persistently disabled ports

Before an FCIP tunnel can be used, the associated ports must be persistently enabled.
NOTE
VEX_Port Users: If the fabric is already connected, you must leave the ge0 and ge1 ports disabled
until after you have configured the VEX_Port; this will prevent unintentional merging of the two
fabrics.
Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide
53-1001766-01
IKE Policy 1
IPSec Policy 1
Pre-Shared Key qbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
After FCIP tunnels are created, the configuration is saved in a persistent database. At this
point, all configured FCIP tunnels now appear in the fabric as VE_Ports.
that the FCIP tunnel is online.
switch:admin06> portenable 8/18
switch:admin06> portenable 8/19
switch:admin06> switchshow
switchName:switch
switchType:42.2
switchState:Online
switchMode:Native
switchRole:Subordinate
switchDomain:4
switchId:fffc04
switchWwn:10:00:00:60:69:80:0d:bc
zoning:ON (LSAN001)
switchBeacon:OFF
blade3 Beacon: OFF
blade4 Beacon: OFF
blade8 Beacon: OFF
FC Router:ON
FC Router BB Fabric ID:1
Area Slot Port Media Speed State
=====================================
32 3 0 id
33 3 1 id
34 3 2 id
35 3 3 id
36 3 4 id
<output truncated>
210 8 18 -- --
"fcr_xd_3_16" (downstream)
211 8 19 -- --
"fcr_xd_5_17" (downstream)
<output truncated>
223 8 31 --
8 ge0 id
8 ge1 id
Enabling persistently disabled ports
N4 Online F-Port
N4 Online F-Port
N4 Online F-Port
N4 Online F-Port
N2 Online F-Port
Online VE-Port
Online VE-Port
-- Offline
1G Online
1G Online
50:03:0d:30:0d:13:00:09
50:03:0d:30:0d:13:00:11
50:03:0d:30:0d:13:00:13
50:03:0d:30:0d:13:00:15
21:00:00:e0:8b:08:bd:20
50:00:51:e3:51:55:3f:1e
50:00:51:e3:70:42:5f:76
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