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Cisco SFS 7000 Series Product Family Command Reference Guide
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Chapter 3 Fibre Channel Commands
fc srp initiator
Defaults By default, no P_keys apply to initiators. By default, global policies apply to initiators. Configure global
policies with
fc srp-global
commands.
Command Modes Global Configuration (config) mode.
Usage Guidelines
Platform Availability:
Cisco SFS 3001, Cisco SFS 3012
Privilege Level:
Unrestricted read-write user, Fibre Channel read-write user
Configure initiators so SRP hosts can communicate with SANs.
Note When you configure new initiators, those initiators inherit the global policies that exist at that time.
When you change global policies, the new global policies do not apply to existing initiators.
Before you can customize an initiator, you must create an initiator entry with the
auto-bind
keyword
or the
wwnn
keyword. Once you identify a host as an initiator, you can customize the initiator with the
remaining keywords.
Command Keyword Usage Guidelines:
• auto-bind
You must create initiators and assign, or bind, a WWNN (an identifier that FC devices recognize) to
each initiator so that FC devices can communicate with initiators. When you use the
auto-bind
keyword to create an initiator and generate a WWNN for an initiator, your Server Switch creates a
virtual port (NL_Port) that represents the initiator on every physical port on the FC gateway. Your
Server Switch assigns an internally-generated WWPN to each virtual port. Each physical port on the
FC gateway supports 32 virtual ports to form a virtual FC arbitrated loop.
Note We strongly recommend that you use the
auto-bind
keyword to assign WWNNs to initiators as
you configure the initiators. If you do manual configuration, you may create duplicate WWNNs
that create traffic conflicts.
• description
Enter a description to help identify an initiator without reading its GUID and extension.
• discover-itl
Discover ITLs to add all available initiator-target-LUN (ITL) groups to the running configuration.
For detailed information on ITLs, refer to the Fibre Channel Gateway User Guide.
wwnn Creates the initiator entry in the configuration file and assigns a
manually-entered WWNN to the initiator.
wwnn-value WWNN to assign to the initiator.