Access Gateway policies overview...............................................................51
Displaying current policies ...............................................................51
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix ....................................51
Advanced Device Security policy .................................................................52
How the ADS policy works................................................................52
Enabling and disabling the ADS policy.............................................52
Allow lists..........................................................................................53
ADS policy considerations................................................................55
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy............55
Automatic Port Configuration policy .............................................................55
How the APC policy works................................................................55
Enabling and disabling the APC policy.............................................55
APC policy considerations................................................................56
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy............56
Port Grouping policy......................................................................................56
How port groups work.......................................................................57
Adding an N_Port to a port group.....................................................58
Deleting an N_Port from a port group...............................................58
Removing a port group .....................................................................58
Renaming a port group.....................................................................59
Disabling the Port Grouping policy....................................................59
Port Grouping policy modes..............................................................59
Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login Balancing
mode............................................................................................60
Enabling MFNM mode......................................................................61
Disabling MFNM mode......................................................................61
Displaying the current MFNM mode timeout value...........................61
Setting the current MFNM mode timeout value.................................61
Port Grouping policy considerations.................................................61
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Port Grouping
policy...........................................................................................62
Device Load Balancing policy.......................................................................62
Enabling the Device Load Balancing policy......................................62
Disabling the Device Load Balancing policy.....................................63
Device Load Balancing policy considerations...................................63
Persistent ALPA policy..................................................................................63
Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy.................................................64
Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy................................................64
Persistent ALPA device data.............................................................64
Clearing ALPA values.......................................................................65
Persistent ALPA policy considerations..............................................65
Failover policy...............................................................................................65
Failover with port mapping................................................................66
Failover with device mapping ...........................................................69
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port..................70
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group..............71
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover policy.......71
Failback policy...............................................................................................71
Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway............................72
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port ................73
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group..............74
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback policy......74
Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port monitoring)......74
Trunking in Access Gateway mode...............................................................75
How trunking works...........................................................................75
Configuring trunking on the Edge switch..........................................75
Configuration management for trunk areas......................................76
Enabling trunking .............................................................................77
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