Licenseport - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c Command Reference Manual

licensePort

Manages Dynamic Ports On Demand (DPOD) licenses.
Synopsis licenseport --release port
licenseport --reserve port
licenseport --show
lcenseport --method dynamic | static
Description Use this command to manage and display Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) license assignments.
Dynamic Ports On Demand (DPOD) is an optional feature available on all embedded platforms.
DPOD takes the expansion capability of static Ports On Demand (POD) and adds the flexibility of
activating any available port as long as a valid license is available. In Static mode, POD allows only
specific fixed ports to be activated or licensed. With DPOD, any physical port can be made active as
long as the total number of licenses is not exceeded.
The Dynamic POD feature assigns ports to the POD license in the order in which they come online
until they equal the number of online licensed ports. This command provides the mechanism to
make adjustments to the dynamic assignments by reserving assignments for specific ports in the
event that there are more online ports than the purchased POD licenses can support.
Note The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
This command is valid only on embedded platforms. On unsupported platforms, this command
returns a "not supported" message.
Operands This command has the following operands:
port
--release
--reserve
--show
--method
Examples To activate Dynamic Ports On Demand:
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Specifies the number of the port to which to assign or from which to remove a
POD license. A port must be specified when releasing or reserving a port.
Releases a license assignment from the specified port when the switch is
using the Dynamic POD method. The port must be offline for this command to
succeed.
Reserves a license assignment for the specified port when the switch is using
the Dynamic POD method. The port must be offline for this command to
succeed.
Displays the POD license assignments.
Selects the POD method as one of the following:
dynamic Selects the dynamic POD method.
static Selects the static POD method.
switch:admin> licenseport
The POD method has been changed to dynamic.
Please reboot the switch now for this change to take effect.
method dynamic
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