Brocade Communications Systems IP250 Port groups

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A “The switches in fabric Name will be disabled prior to making the configuration change. The
switches will be reenabled after the configuration changes are applied. Please confirm to
proceed.” warning message displays.
3. Click OK on the warning message.
The values of the fabric chosen on the Set up merge options screen are applied to all devices
in the second fabric. Once the settings are applied, the test is run again and the merge results
are updated.
If the test passes, go to step4.
If an error occurs, an error message displays. You must use Web Tools or the CLI to resolve this
conflict. Click OK on the error message and go to step 4.
If you are resolving a domain ID error, there may be multiple switches involved. If multiple
switches have the domain ID error, the Configure Domain IDs dialog box displays listing all
devices that have the domain ID conflict.
a. Select the device for which you want to resolve the domain ID in the Available Switches list
and click the right arrow button.
b. Select a new domain ID for the device from the Domain ID list.
c. Repeat steps a and step b for each device in the Available Switches list.
d. Click OK on the Configure Domain IDs dialog box.
4. Repeat step1 through step 3 until all resolvable tests pass.
5. Perform step11 through step 14 of the procedure “Merging two cascaded FICON fabrics” on
page714 to finish resolving a merge conflict.
Port groups
A port group is a group of FC ports from one or more switches within the same fabric. Port groups
are user-specific; you can only view and manage port groups that you create.
The ports display in the order in which you add them to the port group. The order in which you add
ports to a port group is persisted in both the port group and the Allow/Prohibit Matrix. While port
groups can be at the fabric level (ports from multiple switches within the same fabric), the
Allow/Prohibit Matrix is at the switch level. Therefore, when you view the Allow/Prohibit Matrix for a
port group with ports from multiple switches, the matrix only shows the ports for the selected
switch.
To reorder the ports, you must remove the ports, save your changes, then open the Port Groups
dialog box and add the ports back to the port group in the new order.
Once you create a port group, you can view and edit the Allow/Prohibit Matrix for the port group.
Allow/Prohibit Matrix is a FICON port attribute that can be used to prohibit communication between
specific ports. For more information about the Allow/Prohibit Matrix, refer to “Configuring an
Allow/Prohibit Matrix” on page702.