Enable ports after license upgrade

[PaulP]

Hi everyone,

sorry for another newbie question...

I've two Brocade SAN switches for HP enclosure for which I've installed a license to allow the enablement of all ports. I've inserted my license in the switch and it is reported as correctly regesitered.

My question is:

There is a way to enable those ports withoth rebooting or disabling the entire switch??

In suggestions presented after license install "portenable" command is suggested (http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/FOS_730_CLI/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=commands_a_z.portEnable.html&single=true)

Is this the correct command in order to enable the newly registered ports without compromising/interrupting the current active connections to the switch??

Thank you in advance for any reply,

Best Regards,
Paul

[Jason_Antes · Accepted solution]

Yes.  Ports can be enabled/disabled at will without adverse effects on the rest of the switch. 

Could also use to make the port enable persistent:

portcfgpersistentenable portnumber

[PaulP]

Thank you for your answer.

...I think something with the above command is not supported on my switches because this is the output afer port enable:


BCD-BLADE:admin> portenable 14
Port 14: Port enable failed because the port is persistently disabled
BCD-BLADE:admin> portcfgpersistentenable 14
portcfgpersistentenable failed.  Operation not supported.

Am I missing somethin??

Thank you,

Regards,

Paul

[Antonio Bongiorno T…]

Paul,

from the name "BCD-BLADE" show to me this is a Blade Switch Inside the Blade Center.

is correct ?

If yes, and no POD License is Installed, unlicensed Port are permanent as persistent disable and cannot be enable.

[PaulP]

Hi Antonio,

thank you for your answer.

I've figured out my issue... I reserved license on port and after that I was able to enable ports.

licenseport -reserve <port_numer>

Regards,

Paul