Enforcing Fabric Binding

To enforce fabric binding, configure the switch world wide name (sWWN) to specify the xE port connection for each switch. Enforcement of fabric binding policies are done on every activation and when the port tries to come up. However enforcement of fabric binding at the time of activation happens only if the VSAN is a FICON VSAN.

The fabric binding feature requires all sWWNs connecting to a switch and their persistent domain IDs to be part of the fabric-binding active database.

To configure fabric binding in each switch in the fabric, follow these steps.

  1. Enable the fabric configuration feature
  2. Configure a list of sWWNs and their corresponding domain IDs for devices that are allowed to access the fabric.
  3. Activate the fabric binding database.
  4. Save the fabric binding configuration.
  5. Verify the fabric binding configuration.