Access Gateway policies overview............................................................... 51
Displaying current policies ............................................................... 51
Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix .................................... 51
Advanced Device Security policy .................................................................52
How the ADS policy works................................................................52
Enabling and disabling the ADS policy............................................. 52
Allow lists.......................................................................................... 53
ADS policy considerations................................................................ 55
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy............ 55
Automatic Port Configuration policy .............................................................55
How the APC policy works................................................................55
Enabling and disabling the APC policy............................................. 55
APC policy considerations................................................................ 56
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy............ 56
Port Grouping policy......................................................................................56
How port groups work....................................................................... 57
Adding an N_Port to a port group..................................................... 58
Deleting an N_Port from a port group............................................... 58
Removing a port group .....................................................................58
Renaming a port group..................................................................... 59
Disabling the Port Grouping policy....................................................59
Port Grouping policy modes..............................................................59
Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login Balancing
mode............................................................................................60
Enabling MFNM mode...................................................................... 61
Disabling MFNM mode......................................................................61
Displaying the current MFNM mode timeout value........................... 61
Setting the current MFNM mode timeout value.................................61
Port Grouping policy considerations................................................. 61
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Port Grouping
policy........................................................................................... 62
Device Load Balancing policy....................................................................... 62
Enabling the Device Load Balancing policy...................................... 62
Disabling the Device Load Balancing policy..................................... 63
Device Load Balancing policy considerations...................................63
Persistent ALPA policy..................................................................................63
Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy.................................................64
Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy................................................64
Persistent ALPA device data.............................................................64
Clearing ALPA values....................................................................... 65
Persistent ALPA policy considerations..............................................65
Failover policy............................................................................................... 65
Failover with port mapping................................................................66
Failover with device mapping ...........................................................69
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port..................70
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group.............. 71
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover policy....... 71
Failback policy...............................................................................................71
Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway............................72
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port ................ 73
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group..............74
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback policy...... 74
Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port monitoring)......74
Trunking in Access Gateway mode...............................................................75
How trunking works...........................................................................75
Configuring trunking on the Edge switch.......................................... 75
Configuration management for trunk areas...................................... 76
Enabling trunking ............................................................................. 77
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