Activating Dynamic Ports On Demand; Disabling Dynamic Ports On Demand - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

The example above shows output from a switch has 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, use the licensePort command to
customize the POD license associations.
Log in to the switch with a user account that has the Admin role to enable or disable the Dynamic PODs
feature. This feature is supported on the Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem embedded
switch only.
To enable Dynamic Ports on Demand
1. Connect to the switch and log in.
2. Enter the licensePort --method command with the dynamic option to change the license
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 --show command to verify that the switch started the Dynamic POD feature.
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:
1, 2, 5, 6, 8*, 21, 22, 23
Ports assigned to the full POD license:
None
Ports not assigned to a license:
0, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
16 license reservations are still available for use by unassigned ports
1 license assignment is held by an offline port (indicated by *)

Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand

Disabling the Dynamic POD feature (changing the POD method to static), erases any prior port license
associations and/or assignments the next time the switch is rebooted.
To disable Dynamic Ports on Demand:
1. Connect to the switch and log in.
Enter the licensePort --method command with the static option to change the license
2.
assignment method to static.
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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