Displaying The Port License Assignment; Activating Dynamic Ports On Demand - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Displaying the port license assignment

Use the licensePort
those licenses, and the POD method state (dynamic or static).
To display the port licenses:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Enter the licensePort
switch:admin> licenseport --show
24 ports are available in this switch
Full POD license is installed
Static POD method is in use
24 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
24 ports are assigned to installed licenses:
Ports assigned to the base switch license:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20
Ports assigned to the full POD license:
0, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
The example above shows output from a switch that manually assigned POD licenses.

Activating Dynamic Ports on Demand

If the switch is in the Static POD mode, then activating the Dynamic POD will erase any prior port license
assignments the next time the switch is rebooted. The static POD assignments become the initial Dynamic
POD assignments. After the Dynamic POD feature is enabled, you can customize the POD license
associations.
IMPORTANT:
BladeSystem only.
To enable Dynamic Ports on Demand:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Enter the licensePort
assignment method to dynamic.
switch:admin> licenseport --method dynamic
The POD method has been changed to dynamic.
Please reboot the switch now for this change to take effect.
3. Enter the reboot command to restart the switch.
switch:admin> reboot
4. Enter the licensePort
switch:admin> licenseport --show
24 ports are available in this switch
Full POD license is installed
Dynamic POD method is in use
24 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
8 ports are assigned to installed licenses:
Ports assigned to the base switch license:
show command to display the available licenses, the current port assignment of
--
show command.
--
12 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
12 port assignments are provisioned by a full POD license
12 ports are assigned to the base switch license
12 ports are assigned to the full POD license
The Dynamic POD feature is supported on the Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class
method command with the dynamic option to change the license
--
show command to verify that the switch started the Dynamic POD feature.
--
12 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
12 port assignments are provisioned by a full POD license
8 ports are assigned to the base switch license
0 ports are assigned to the full POD license
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