Managing Policies And Features In Access Gateway Mode; In This Chapter; Access Gateway Policies Overview; Displaying Current Policies - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode

In this chapter

Access Gateway policies overview

This chapter provides detailed information on all Access Gateway policies. These policies can be
used to control various advanced features, such as Failover, Failback, and Trunking when used in
Access Gateway mode.

Displaying current policies

You can run the following command to display policies that are currently enabled or disabled on a
switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag
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Access Gateway policies overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Automatic Port Configuration policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Device Load Balancing Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Persistent ALPA Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Failback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Trunking in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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Per Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
policyshow command.
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The following example shows that Port Grouping, Automatic Port Configuration, and Advanced
Device Security policies are enabled.
switch:admin> ag --policyshow
Policy_Description
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Port Grouping
Auto Port Configuration
Advanced Device Security
WWN Based Load Balancing
Policy_Name State
pg
auto
ads
wwnloadbalance
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
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