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Access Gateway Administrator's Guide 53-1002743-01 Persistent ALPA policy 48 Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy 48 Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy 49 Persistent ALPA device data 49 Clearing ALPA values 49 Persistent ALPA policy considerations 50 Failover policy 50 Failover with port mapping 50 Failover with device mapping 53 Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port . . . . . 54 Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group . . . 54 Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover policy 55 Failback policy 55 Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway 55 Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port . . . . 56 Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group . . . 57 Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback policy 57 Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port monitoring 57 Trunking in Access Gateway mode 58 How trunking works 58 Configuring trunking on the Edge switch 58 Configuration management for trunk areas 59 Enabling trunking 61 Disabling F_Port trunking 61 Monitoring trunking 61 AG trunking considerations for the Edge switch 62 Trunking considerations for Access Gateway mode 65 Upgrade and downgrade considerations for trunking in Access Gateway mode 65 Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway 65 QoS: Ingress rate limiting 66 QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization 66 Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Adaptive Networking in AG mode 66 Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations . . . . . 67 Per-Port NPIV login limit 67 Setting the login limit 67 Advanced Performance Monitoring 68 End-to-end monitors 68 Frame monitors 69 Limitations for using APM 70 Considerations for the Brocade 8000 70 Port mapping 70 Policy and feature support 70 Fabric OS command support 71 Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510 72 vii

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Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Persistent ALPA device data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Clearing ALPA values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Persistent ALPA policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Failover with port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Failover with device mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port . . . . .54
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group . . . 54
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover
policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Failback policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . 55
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port
. . . .56
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group . . . 57
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback
policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port
monitoring) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Trunking in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
How trunking works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Configuring trunking on the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Enabling trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Monitoring trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
AG trunking considerations for the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Trunking considerations for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . .65
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for trunking in
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
QoS: Ingress rate limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Adaptive
Networking in AG mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations . . . . .67
Per-Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Setting the login limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
End-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Frame monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Limitations for using APM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Policy and feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Fabric OS command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72