HP StorageWorks 8/80 HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.2 administrator guide (5697-0 - Page 379

5. Enter the interopMode command and verify that Fabric OS switch interoperability with switches from other manufacturers is disabled. switch:admin> interopmode InteropMode: Off usage: InteropMode [0|2|3 [-z McDataDefaultZone] [-s McDataSafeZone]] 0: to turn interopMode off 2: to turn McDATA Fabric mode on Valid McDataDefaultZone: 0 (disabled), 1 (enabled) Valid McDataSafeZone: 0 (disabled), 1 (enabled) 3: to turn McDATA Open Fabric mode on If interoperability mode is turned on, enter the interopMode 0 command to turn it off. 6. Enter the msPlatShow command to verify that Management Server Platform database is disabled in the backbone fabric. switch:admin_06> msplatshow *MS Platform Management Service is NOT enabled. If the MS platform database is enabled, enter the msPlMgmtDeactivate command to deactivate it. 7. Verify that the Fabric Wide Consistency Policy is not in strict mode by issuing the fddCfg --showall command. When it is in strict mode, ACL cannot support Fibre Channel routing in the fabric. switch:admin> fddcfg --showall Local Switch Configuration for all Databases:DATABASE - Accept/Reject SCC - accept DCC - accept PWD - accept Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy :- "SCC:S;DCC" If the Fabric Wide Consistency Policy has the letter S in it in the edge fabric or the backbone fabric, do not connect the edge fabric or the backbone fabric to the FC router. The letter S (shown in the preceding sample output) indicates the policy is strict. The fabric-wide policy must be tolerant before you can connect fabrics to the FC router. See Chapter 4, "Configuring advanced security features" on page 117 for information about configuring the fabric-wide consistency policy. Backbone FIDs If your configuration has only one backbone fabric, this task is not required because the backbone FID in this situation defaults to a value of 1. All switches in a backbone fabric must have the same backbone FID. You can configure the backbone FID using the fcrConfigure command. The backbone FID must be unique from the perspective of every attached edge fabric. FID changes made on a switch are not propagated to other switches in the backbone fabric. Rather, the backbone fabric administrator is responsible for making sure that all switches in the backbone have the same FID. Because FIDs are used heavily by the routing protocol between the Fibre Channel routers, using the wrong FID can affect both edge-to-edge and backbone-to-edge routing. In addition to ensuring that the backbone FIDs are the same within the same backbone, you must make sure that when two different backbones are connected to the same edge fabric, the backbone FIDs are different, but the edge FID should be the same. Configuration of two backbones with the same backbone FID that are connected to the same edge is invalid. In this configuration, a RASLog message displays a warning about FID overlap. When two backbone fabrics are not connected to the same edge, they can have the same backbone FID. Fabric OS 6.2 administrator guide 377