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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
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Chapter 19 Troubleshooting FC-SP, Port Security, and Fabric Binding
Fabric Binding Issues
Cannot Activate Fabric Binding
Symptom Cannot activate fabric binding.
Verifying the Config Fabric Binding Database Using Fabric Manager
To verify the config fabric binding database using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Choose Fabricxx > VSANxx > Fabric Binding and select the Config Database tab.
Step 2 Right-click on the conflicting entry and click Delete Row to remove this entry.
Step 3 Choose Fabricxx > VSANxx > Fabric Binding and select the Actions tab
Step 4 Select activate from the Action drop-down menu, and click Apply Changes to copy the configure
database to the active database and reactivate fabric binding.
Verifying the Config Fabric Binding Database Using the CLI
To verify the config fabric binding database using the CLI, follow these steps:
Step 1 Use the show fabric-binding database active command to view the active entries in the database.
Step 2 Use the fabric-binding database copy command to copy the active database to the configure database.
switch# fabric-binding database copy vsan 1
Step 3 Use the fabric-binding database command to remove an entry from the configure database.
switch(config)# fabric-binding database vsan 3
switch(config-port-security)# no swwn 20:00:00:0c:85:90:3e:80
Step 4 Use the fabric-binding activate command to copy the configure database to the active database and
reactivate fabric binding.
switch(config)# fabric-binding activate vsan 1
Table 19-10 Cannot Activate Fabric Binding
Symptom Possible Cause Solution
Cannot activate fabric
binding.
Conflicting entries in the configure
database.
Remove the conflicting entries. See the “Verifying the
Config Fabric Binding Database Using Fabric Manager”
section on page 19-18 or the “Verifying the Config Fabric
Binding Database Using the CLI” section on page 19-18.
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