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Administering FICON CUP Fabrics

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FICON CUP fabrics overview

Control Unit Port (CUP) is a protocol for managing FICON directors. Host-based management
programs manage the switches using CUP protocol by sending commands to the emulated control
device implemented by Fabric OS. A Brocade switch or director that supports CUP can be controlled
by one or more host-based management programs or director consoles, such as Brocade Web
Tools or Brocade Network Advisor. (Refer to the Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual for
more information about the Brocade Network Advisor.) The director allows control to be shared
between host-based management programs and director consoles.
NOTE
To perform FICON CUP operations, the EGM license must be enabled on the switches using the CUP
protocol. Also, the EGM license must be enabled to set the Allow/Prohibit Matrix parameters.
NOTE
While enabling FMS mode with online devices connected to ports with addresses of 0xFE or 0xFF,
the following error displays.
FMS mode enable failed due to port(s) with areas 0xFE or 0xFF is(are) connected to device(s).
User must disable the ports, or remove the online devices from those ports that are mapped to the
0xFE or 0xFF address.
To use FICON CUP, you must do the following:
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FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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Enabling port-based routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
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FMS parameter configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
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Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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Viewing the control device state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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Allow / Prohibit Matrix configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
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CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
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Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
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Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Install a FICON CUP license on a FICON director.
Enable FICON Management Server (FMS) mode on the FICON director.
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