Port Fencing Troubleshooting; Professional Edition Login Troubleshooting - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

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Port Fencing troubleshooting

The following section states a possible issue and the recommended solution for Port Fencing

In a pure M-EOS fabric, fabric level policy

information (for example, Port Fencing Link

threshold) is stored in database based on the

principle switch WWN. Therefore, if you add a

switch to the fabric and the new switch becomes

the Principle switch, the Management

application cannot obtain the policy information

and the threshold is not applied.

If you segment a switch from a fabric then

rediscover the switch without accepting

changes, the Port Fencing dialog box displays

the switch twice and the port count is doubled.

The following section states a possible issue and the recommended solution for Professional

edition login errors.

Professional edition login troubleshooting

client session is active or has not yet timed out.

Re-assign the threshold to the fabric. For step-by-step instructions, refer to

on page 693.

Right-click on the fabric that the segmented switch (with red minus icon) is part of and

select Accept Changes.

If you closed the client using Windows Task Manager (End Task or Process) or using Unix

process ID (kill command), successful relaunch of the application may take up to 2

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