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Enabling ISL encryption on Brocade switches

After setting the authentication policy and the authentication secret, you must enable ISL encryption on the ports for it to take effect.

  • These steps should be performed on one switch fabric at a time.

  • The commands must be run at the switch console.

  1. Enable encryption on all of the ISL ports: portCfgEncrypt --enable port_number

    In the following example, the encryption is enabled on ports 8 and 12: portCfgEncrypt --enable 8 portCfgEncrypt --enable 12
  2. Enable the switch: switchenable
  3. Verify that the ISL is up and working: islshow
  4. Verify that encryption is enabled: portenccompshow

    The following example shows that encryption is enabled on ports 8 and 12:
    User Encryption        
    Port  configured     Active
    ----   ----------    ------
     8      yes          yes
     9      No           No
     10     No           No
     11     No           No
     12     yes          yes

Perform all of the steps on the switches in the other fabric in a MetroCluster configuration.