Disabling And Enabling Switches; Disabling And Enabling Ports - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Ports assigned to the base switch license:
1*, 2*, 3*, 4*, 5*, 6*, 8*, 21, 22, 23
Ports assigned to the full POD license:
None
Ports not assigned to a license:
0, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
switch:admin>
6. Enter the switchEnable command to bring the switch back online.
7. Enter the switchShow command to verify the switch state is now online.

Disabling and enabling switches

By default, the switch is enabled after power is applied and diagnostics and switch initialization routines
have finished. You can disable and reenable it as necessary.
To disable a switch:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Enter the switchDisable command.
All Fibre Channel ports on the switch are taken offline. If the switch was part of a fabric, the fabric is
reconfigured.
To enable a switch:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Enter the switchEnable command.
All Fibre Channel ports that passed the POST test are enabled. If the switch has interswitch links (ISLs) to
a fabric, it joins the fabric.

Disabling and enabling ports

By default, all licensed ports are enabled. You can disable and reenable them as necessary. Ports that you
activate with Ports on Demand must be enabled explicitly, as described in
on page 37.
WARNING! The fabric will be reconfigured if the port you are enabling or disabling is connected to
another switch.
The switch whose port has been disabled will be segmented from the fabric and all traffic flowing between
it and the fabric will be lost.
To disable a port:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the following command:
switch:admin> portdisable portnumber
where portnumber is the port number of the port you want to disable.
For 4/256 SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director (short name, DC Director): Enter
the following command:
switch:admin> portdisable slotnumber/portnumber
where slotnumber and portnumber are the slot and port numbers of the port you want to disable.
To enable a port:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an admin account.
2. Enter the following command:
switch:admin> portenable portnumber
where portnumber is the port number of the port you want to enable.
44 Standard features
"Activating ports on demand"