Document Outline

• About This Document
  • How this document is organized
  • Supported hardware and software
  • What’s new in this document
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Command syntax conventions
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Notice to the reader
  • Key terms for Access Gateway
  • Additional information
    • Brocade resources
    • Other industry resources
    • Optional Brocade features
  • Getting technical help
  • Document feedback
• Access Gateway Basic Concepts
  • Brocade Access Gateway overview
    • Comparing Native Fabric and Access Gateway modes
  • Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode
    • Buffer credit recovery support
    • Forward error correction support
    • Virtual Fabrics support
    • Device authentication support
  • Access Gateway port types
    • Comparison of Access Gateway ports to standard switch ports
  • Access Gateway hardware considerations
• Configuring Ports in Access Gateway Mode
  • Enabling and disabling Access Gateway mode
    • Port state description
  • Access Gateway mapping
    • Port mapping
    • F_Port Static Mapping
    • Device mapping
    • Considerations for Access Gateway mapping
  • N_Port configurations
    • Displaying N_Port configurations
    • Unlocking N_Ports
    • Persisting port online state
  • D_Port support
    • Limitations and considerations
    • Saving port mappings
• Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode
  • Access Gateway policies overview
    • Displaying current policies
    • Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix
  • Advanced Device Security policy
    • How the ADS policy works
    • Enabling and disabling the ADS policy
    • Allow lists
    • ADS policy considerations
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy
  • Automatic Port Configuration policy
    • How the APC policy works
    • Enabling and disabling the APC policy
    • APC policy considerations
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy
  • Port Grouping policy
    • How port groups work
    • Adding an N_Port to a port group
    • Deleting an N_Port from a port group
    • Removing a port group
    • Renaming a port group
    • Disabling the Port Grouping policy
    • Port Grouping policy modes
    • Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login Balancing mode
    • Enabling MFNM mode
    • Disabling MFNM mode
    • Displaying the current MFNM mode timeout value
    • Setting the current MFNM mode timeout value
    • Port Grouping policy considerations
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Port Grouping policy
  • Device Load Balancing policy
    • Enabling the Device Load Balancing policy
    • Disabling the Device Load Balancing policy
    • Device Load Balancing policy considerations
  • Persistent ALPA policy
    • Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy
    • Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy
    • Persistent ALPA device data
    • Clearing ALPA values
    • Persistent ALPA policy considerations
  • Failover policy
    • Failover with port mapping
    • Failover with device mapping
    • Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port
    • Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover policy
  • Failback policy
    • Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway
    • Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port
    • Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback policy
    • Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port monitoring)
  • Trunking in Access Gateway mode
    • How trunking works
    • Configuring trunking on the Edge switch
    • Configuration management for trunk areas
    • Enabling trunking
    • Disabling F_Port trunking
    • Monitoring trunking
    • AG trunking considerations for the Edge switch
    • Trunking considerations for Access Gateway mode
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for trunking in Access Gateway mode
  • Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway
    • QoS: Ingress rate limiting
    • QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
    • Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Adaptive Networking in AG mode
    • Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations
  • Per-Port NPIV login limit
    • Setting the login limit
  • Advanced Performance Monitoring
    • End-to-end monitors
    • Frame monitors
    • Limitations for using APM
  • Considerations for the Brocade 8000
    • Port mapping
    • Policy and feature support
    • Fabric OS command support
  • Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510
• SAN Configuration with Access Gateway
  • Connectivity of multiple devices overview
    • Considerations for connecting multiple devices
  • Direct target attachment
    • Considerations for direct target attachment
  • Target aggregation
  • Access Gateway cascading
    • Access Gateway cascading considerations
  • Fabric and Edge switch configuration
    • Verifying the switch mode
    • Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches
  • Connectivity to Cisco fabrics
    • Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch
  • Rejoining Fabric OS switches to a fabric
    • Reverting to a previous configuration
• Troubleshooting
• Index