Deactivating High Integrity Fabrics - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

2. Select the fabric on which you want to activate HIF from the Fabric Name list.
3. Click Activate.

Deactivating high integrity fabrics

NOTE
Deactivating high integrity fabrics is not supported in a pure Fabric OS environment.
To deactivate a HIF, complete the following steps.
1. Select Configure > High Integrity Fabric.
2. Select the fabric on which you want to deactivate HIF from the Fabric Name list.
3. Click Deactivate.
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The HIF status displays in the High Integrity Fabric field.
For Pure Fabric OS fabrics, HIF activates the Switch Connection Control (SCC) policy, sets
Insistent Domain ID, and sets the Fabric Wide Consistency Policy (FWCP) for SCC in strict
mode.
For mixed Fabric OS and M-EOS fabrics:
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For Fabric OS switches, HIF activates the SCC policy, sets Insistent Domain ID, and sets the
FWCP for SCC in tolerant mode.
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For M-EOS switches, HIF activates Enterprise Fabric Mode, Fabric Binding, Switch Binding,
Insistent Domain ID, and RSCNs.
The High Integrity Fabric dialog box displays.
The HIF status displays in the High Integrity Fabric field.
Deactivating HIF on a fabric does not deactivate the features on the individual switches, you
must disable them individually:
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For Fabric OS switches, disable the SCC policy, Insistent Domain ID, and the Fabric Wide
Consistency Policy for SCC in tolerant mode.
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For M-EOS switches, disable Fabric Binding, Switch Binding, Insistent Domain ID, and
RSCNs.
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