Ficon Information Refresh Note; About Ficon Device Allegiance; Automatically Saving The Running Configuration - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Chapter 36 Configuring FICON
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If you disable SNMP in the Cisco MDS switch, you cannot configure FICON parameters using the Fabric
Note
Manager.
To configure SNMP control of FICON parameters using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Choose VSAN > FICON.
Step 1
You see a list of switches under the Control tab in the Information pane.
Step 2 Click the VSANs tab.
You see the FICON VSAN configuration information in the Information pane (see
Step 3 Check the Port Control By SNMP checkbox to allow SNMP users to configure FICON on the switch.
Step 4 Click the Apply Changes icon to save these changes.

FICON Information Refresh Note

When viewing FICON information through the Device Manager dialog boxes, you must manually
refresh the display by clicking the Refresh button to see the latest updates. This is true whether you
configure FICON through the CLI or through the Device Manager.
There is no automatic refresh of FICON information. This information would be refreshed so often that
it would affect performance.

About FICON Device Allegiance

FICON requires serialization of access among multiple mainframes, CLI, and SNMP sessions be
maintained on Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches by controlling device allegiance for the currently
executing session. Any other session is denied permission to perform configuration changes unless the
required allegiance is available.
Caution This task discards the currently executing session.

Automatically Saving the Running Configuration

Cisco MDS SAN-OS provides an option to automatically save any configuration changes to the startup
configuration. This ensures that the new configuration is present after a switch reboot. The Active=Saved
option can be enable on any FICON VSAN.
Table 36-2
configuration to the startup configuration (copy running start) in various scenarios.
If the Active=Saved option is enabled in any FICON-enabled VSAN in the fabric, then the following
apply (see Number
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OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
displays the results of the Active = Saved option and the implicit copy from the running
1 and 2 in Table
All configuration changes (FICON-specific or not) are automatically saved to persistent storage
(implicit copy running start) and stored in the startup configuration.
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
Configuring FICON
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