Enabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring Mode; Disabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring Mode; Displaying The Current Fabric Name Monitoring Timeout Value; Setting The Current Fabric Name Monitoring Timeout Value - Dell PowerEdge M420 Administrator's Manual

Enabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgsetmodes command with appropriate operands to enable MFNM mode. In

Disabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode

1. Connect to the FC SAN Module and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgdelmodes command with appropriate operands to disable MFNM mode. In

Displaying the current fabric name monitoring timeout value

1. Connect to the FC SAN Module and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgfnmtov command.

Setting the current fabric name monitoring timeout value

1. Connect to the FC SAN Module and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the ag --pgfnmtov command, followed by a value.
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the following example, MFNM mode is enabled for port group 3.
switch:admin> ag --pgsetmodes 3 "mfnm"
Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode has been enabled for Port Group 3
the following example, MFNM mode is disabled for port group 3.
switch:admin> ag --pgdelmodes 3 "mfnm"
Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode has been disabled for Port Group 3
switch:admin> ag --pgshow
PG_ID PG_Name PG_Mode N_Ports F_Ports
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0 pg0 lb,mfnm 0;2 4;5;6
3 FirstFabric lb 1;3 10;11
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switch:admin> ag --pgfnmtov
Fabric Name Monitoring TOV: 120 seconds
switch:admin> ag --pgfnmtov 100
This sets the timeout value to 100 seconds.
Port Grouping policy
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