Enabling And Disabling The Apc Policy; Automatic Port Configuration Policy Considerations - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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Automatic Port Configuration policy

Enabling and disabling the APC policy

Use the following steps to enable and disable Automatic Port Configuration policy. This policy is
disabled by default in Access Gateway.
Enabling APC policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the switchdisable command to ensure that the switch is disabled.
3. Enter the configupload command to save the switch's current configuration.
4. Enter the ag --policydisable pg command to disable the port grouping policy.
5. Enter the ag --policyenable auto command to enable the APC policy.
6. At the command prompt, type Y to enable the policy.
Disabling APC policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the switchdisable command to ensure that the switch is disabled.
3. Enter the configupload command to save the switch's current configuration.
4. Enter the command ag --policydisable auto to disable the APC policy.
5. At the command prompt, type Y to disable the policy.
6. Enter the switchenable command to enable the switch.

Automatic Port Configuration policy considerations

Following are the considerations for the Automatic Port Configuration policy:
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switch:admin> ag --policyenable auto
All Port related Access Gateway configurations will be lost.
Please save the current configuration using configupload.
Do you want to continue? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
The switch is ready; a reboot is not required.
switch:admin> ag --policydisable auto
Default factory settings will be restored.
Default mappings will come into effect.
Please save the current configuration using configupload.
Do you want to continue? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Access Gateway configuration has been restored to factory default
The APC and the PG policies cannot be enabled at the same time. You can still benefit from the
automatic port mapping feature of the APC policy when the port grouping policy is enabled by
enabling the auto distribution feature for each port group.
You cannot manually configure port mapping when this policy is enabled.
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