Administering ficon cup fabrics, In this chapter, Ficon cup fabrics overview – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

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Chapter

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Administering FICON CUP Fabrics

In this chapter

FICON CUP fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Enabling port-based routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Enabling or disabling FICON Management Server mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

FMS parameter configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Displaying code page information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Viewing the control device state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

CUP port connectivity configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

CUP logical path configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Link Incident Registered Recipient configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Displaying Request Node Identification Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

FICON CUP fabrics overview

Control Unit Port (CUP) is a protocol for managing FICON directors. Host-based management
programs manage the switches using CUP protocol by sending commands to the emulated control
device implemented by Fabric OS. A Brocade switch or director that supports CUP can be controlled
by one or more host-based management programs or director consoles, such as Brocade Web
Tools or Brocade Fabric Manager. (Refer to the Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide for
information about Fabric Manager.) The director allows control to be shared between host-based
management programs and director consoles.

NOTE

To perform FICON CUP operations, the EGM license must be enabled on the switches using the CUP
protocol. Also, the EGM license must be enabled to set Prohibit Dynamic Connectivity Mask (PDCM)
parameters.

To use FICON CUP, you must do the following:

Install a FICON CUP license on a FICON director.

Enable FICON Management Server (FMS) mode on the FICON director.

Configure CUP attributes (FMS parameters) for the FICON director.

You can use Web Tools for all of these tasks. You can also use Web Tools to manage FICON
directors (when FMS mode is enabled on those directors) to do the following:

Display the control device state

Display a code page

Manage port connectivity configuration

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