Disabling The Port Grouping Policy; Port Grouping Policy Modes; Creating A Port Group And Enabling Login Balancing Mode - Dell PowerEdge M420 Administrator's Manual

Disabling the Port Grouping policy

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --policydisable command.

Port Grouping policy modes

You can modify certain default behavior such as the following within a port group:
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Creating a port group and enabling login balancing mode

1. Connect to the FC SAN Module and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgcreate command with appropriate operands to create a port group. In the
3. Enter the ag --pgshow command to verify the port group was created.
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switch:admin> ag --policydisable pg
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Login Balancing (LB)
If login balancing mode is enabled for a port group and an internal port (F_Port) goes offline,
logins in the port group are redistributed among the remaining internal ports. Similarly, if an
external port (N_Port) comes online, port logins in the PG are redistributed to maintain a
balanced external-to-internal port ratio. Please note the following facts about LB mode:
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LB is disruptive. However, you can minimize disruption by disabling or enabling
rebalancing of internal ports on internal-port-offline or external-port-online events.
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You must be explicitly enable LB on a port group.
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Internal ports can be directly added to port groups that have Login Balancing mode
enabled.
Managed Fabric Name Monitoring (MFNM)
Fabric Name Monitoring mode automatically detects whether all the external ports (N_Ports)
within a port group are physically connected to the same physical or virtual fabric. Once a
misconnection is detected there are two methods to handle it, depending on the operating
mode. For "default" mode a message is logged into RASLOG. For "managed" mode (MFNM),
automatic failover disables on all external ports within the external port group.
In both default and managed mode, the system queries the fabric name once every 120
seconds to detect inconsistencies such as a port group being connected to multiple fabrics.
You can configure the monitoring timeout value to something other than 120 seconds using
the ag --pgfnmtov command. Refer to
value" on page 17.
following example, a port group named "FirstFabric" is created that includes external ports
(N_Ports) 1 and 3 and has login balancing enabled.
switch:admin> ag --pgcreate 3 "1;3" -n FirstFabric1 -m "lb"
Port Group 3 created successfully
switch:admin> ag --pgshow
PG_ID PG_Name PG_Mode
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0 pg0 lb,mfnm
"Setting the current fabric name monitoring timeout
N_Ports F_Ports
none none
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