Overview Of Steps To Create And Manage The Fcs Policies; Modifying The Primary Fcs - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Overview of steps to create and manage the FCS policies

Whether your intention is to create new FCS policies or manage your current FCS policies. You must follow
certain steps to ensure the domains throughout your fabric have the same policy.
1. Create the FCS policy using the secPolicyCreate command
2. Activate the policy using the secPolicyActivate command
3. Distribute the policies to the intended domains using the distribute command
To create an FCS policy:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Type secPolicyCreate "FCS_POLICY", "member;...;member".
member indicates a switch that is eligible to become a primary or back-up FCS switch. Specify switches
by WWN, domain ID, or switch name. Enter an asterisk (*) to indicate all the switches in the fabric.
For example, to create an FCS policy that allows switch with domain ID 2 to become a primary FCS
and domain id 4 to become a back-up FCS.:
switch:admin> secpolicycreate "FCS_POLICY", "2;4"
FCS_POLICY has been created
To save or activate the new policy, enter either the secPolicySave or the secPolicyActivate
command. Once the policy has been activated you can distribute the policy.
FCS policy should be consistent across the fabric. If the policy is inconsistent in the fabric then you will not
be able to perform any fabric wide configurations from the Primary FCS.

Modifying the primary FCS

The secFCSFailover command is not supported for failing over to a new Primary switch. If your Primary
FCS switch is experiencing problems or will be replaced, select a new Primary FCS immediately. Use the
secPolicyFCSMove command to change the order in which switches are listed in the FCS policy.
To modify the order of FCS switches:
1. Log in to the Primary FCS switch as admin.
Type secPolicyShow "Defined", "FCS_POLICY".
2.
This displays the WWNs of the current Primary FCS switch and backup FCS switches.
3. Type secPolicyFCSMove; then provide the current position of the switch in the list and the desired
position at the prompts.
Alternatively, enter secPolicyFCSMove "From, To". From is the current position in the list of the
FCS switch and To is the desired position in the list for this switch.
For example, to move a backup FCS switch from position 2 to position 3 in the FCS list, using
interactive mode:
primaryfcs:admin> secpolicyfcsmove
PosPrimary WWN
=================================================
1Yes 10:00:00:60:69:10:02:181
2No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:5a2
3No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:133
Please enter position you'd like to move from : (1..3) [1] 2
Please enter position you'd like to move to : (1..3) [1] 3
____________________________________________________
DEFINED POLICY SET
FCS_POLICY
PosPrimaryWWN
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1Yes 10:00:00:60:69:10:02:181 switch5.
2No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:133 switch73.
3No 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:5a2 switch60.
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4. Type secPolicyActivate.
DId swName.
switch5.
switch60.
switch73.
DId swName
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