Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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Access Gateway policies overview............................................................... 47

Displaying current policies ............................................................... 47
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix .................................... 47

Advanced Device Security policy .................................................................48

How the ADS policy works................................................................48
Enabling and disabling the ADS policy............................................. 48
Allow lists.......................................................................................... 49
ADS policy considerations................................................................ 51
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy............ 51

Automatic Port Configuration policy .............................................................51

How the APC policy works................................................................51
Enabling and disabling the APC policy............................................. 51
APC policy considerations................................................................ 52
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy............ 52

Port Grouping policy......................................................................................52

How port groups work....................................................................... 53
Adding an N_Port to a port group..................................................... 54
Deleting an N_Port from a port group............................................... 54
Removing a port group .....................................................................54
Renaming a port group..................................................................... 55
Disabling the Port Grouping policy....................................................55
Port Grouping policy modes..............................................................55
Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login Balancing

mode............................................................................................56

Enabling MFNM mode...................................................................... 57
Disabling MFNM mode......................................................................57
Displaying the current MFNM mode timeout value........................... 57
Setting the current MFNM mode timeout value.................................57
Port Grouping policy considerations................................................. 57
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Port Grouping

policy........................................................................................... 58

Device Load Balancing policy....................................................................... 58

Enabling the Device Load Balancing policy...................................... 58
Disabling the Device Load Balancing policy..................................... 59
Device Load Balancing policy considerations...................................59

Persistent ALPA policy..................................................................................59

Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy.................................................60
Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy................................................60
Persistent ALPA device data.............................................................60
Clearing ALPA values....................................................................... 61
Persistent ALPA policy considerations..............................................61

Failover policy............................................................................................... 61

Failover with port mapping................................................................62
Failover with device mapping ...........................................................65
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port..................66
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group.............. 67
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover policy....... 67

Failback policy...............................................................................................67

Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway............................68
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port ................ 69
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group..............70
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback policy...... 70
Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port monitoring)......70

Trunking in Access Gateway mode...............................................................71

How trunking works...........................................................................71
Configuring trunking on the Edge switch.......................................... 71
Configuration management for trunk areas...................................... 72
Enabling trunking ............................................................................. 73

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