Brocade Network Advisor Port Commissioning Quick Start Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) - Manual (Page 3)

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Publication Number: 53-1003220-01
In this document
• Port commissioning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
• Configuring port commissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
• CIMOM servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
• F-Port commissioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• E-Port commissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
• Port commissioning by switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
• Port commissioning by blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
• Port commissioning deployment results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
• Viewing a port commissioning deployment report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
• CIMCLI trouble shooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Port commissioning overview
NOTE
Port commissioning is only supported on FICON devices running Fabric OS 7.1 or later.
Port commissioning provides an automated mechanism to remove an E-Port or F-Port from use (decommission) and
to put it back in use (recommission). This feature identifies the target port and communicates the intention to
decommission or recommission the port to those systems within the fabric affected by the action. Each affected
system can agree or disagree with the action, and these responses are automatically collected before a port is
decommissioned or recommissioned.
Note the following restrictions of port commissioning:
• The local switch and the remote switch on the other end of the E-Port or F-Port must both be running Fabric OS
7.1.0 or later.
• Port commissioning is not supported on links configured for encryption or compression.
• Port commissioning is not supported on ports with DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplexing), CWDM
(corse wavelength-division multiplexing), or TDM (time-division multiplexing).
• E-Port commissioning requires that the lossless feature is enabled on both the local switch and the remote
switch.
• Fabric tracking must be enabled to maintain the decommissioned port details (such as port type, device port
wwn, and so on). Do not accept changes in the Management application client.
For more information about fabric tracking, refer to Brocade Network Advisor User Manual “Enabling fabric
tracking” on page 289.