Enabling Npiv On M-Eos Switches - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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Fabric and Edge switch configuration
See
If the switch is in Native mode, you can enable AG mode; otherwise, set the switch to Native mode,
and then reboot the switch.

Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin on the M-EOS switch.
2. Enable the MS services by entering the following commands:
3. Enable NPIV functionality on the Edge fabric ports so that multiple logins are allowed for each
NOTE
You can run the agshow command to display Access Gateway information registered with the fabric.
When an Access Gateway is exclusively connected to Non-Fabric-OS-based switches, it will not show
up in the agshow output on other Brocade Switches in the fabric.
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switchType: 76.6
switchState: Online
switchMode: Native
switchRole: Subordinate
switchDomain: 13
switchId: fffc01
switchWwn: 10:00:00:05:1e:03:4b:e7
zoning: OFF
switchBeacon: OFF
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Table 3 on page 9 for a description of the port state.
For the Mi10K switch, enter the following command.
fc osmsState <vfid> <state>
where
vfid Virtual fabric identification number.
state Can be enable for the enabled state or disable for the disabled state.
For other McDATA switches, enter the following command.
config OpenSysMs setState <osmsState>
where
osmsState Can be enable or 1 for the enabled state or disable or 0 for the disabled
state.
port. Enter the following command on the M-EOS switch to enable NPIV on the specified ports.
config NPIV
Your M-EOS switch is now ready to connect.
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