388 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Ports on Demand
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If the switch detects more active links than allowed by the current POD licenses, then some ports
will not be assigned a POD license. Ports that do not receive a POD assignment have a state of No
Sync or In Sync; these ports are not allowed to progress to the online state. Ports that cannot be
brought online because of insufficient POD licenses have a state of (No POD License) Disabled. You
can use the switchShow command to display the port states.
Displaying the port license assignments
When you display the available licenses, you can also view the current port assignment of those
licenses.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the licensePort
--show command.
Example showing manually assigned POD licenses
switch:admin> licenseport --show
24 ports are available in this switch
Full POD license is installed
Dynamic POD method is in use
24 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
12 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
12 port assignments are provisioned by a full POD license
24 ports are assigned to installed licenses:
12 ports are assigned to the base switch license
12 ports are assigned to the full POD license
Ports assigned to the base switch license:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20
Ports assigned to the full POD license:
0, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand
If the switch is in the static POD mode, then activating the Dynamic POD will erase any prior port
license assignments the next time the switch is rebooted. The static POD assignments become the
initial Dynamic POD assignments. After the Dynamic POD feature is enabled, you can customize
the POD license associations.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the licensePort
--method command with the dynamic option to change the license
assignment method to dynamic.
switch:admin> licenseport --method dynamic
The POD method has been changed to dynamic.
Please reboot the switch now for this change to take effect.
3. Enter the reboot command to restart the switch.
switch:admin> reboot
4. Enter the licensePort --show command to verify the switch started the Dynamic POD feature.
switch:admin> licenseport --show
24 ports are available in this switch
Full POD license is installed
Dynamic POD method is in use
24 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
12 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
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