Set a Fibre Channel Interface Administrative State

You can set the administrative state of a Fibre Channel interface to either online or offline. If the Fibre Channel interface has connected initiators, you must use the --force option to set the administrative state to offline.

NOTE: Using this command to disable all Fibre Channel ports on an active controller may result in pure ANO paths from the standby controller. This can lead to performance issues across all OS and single ANO path usage for IO purpose for Windows OS.

Set the administrative state to online or offline.

fc --edit interface_name [--array {name | serial}] --ctrlr {A | B} --admin_state {online | offline} [--force]

Setting the administrative state of the fc3 interface on controller A to online.

$ fc --edit fc3 --ctrlr A --admin_state online

Setting the administrative state of the fc1 interface on controller B to offline using the --force option.

$ fc --edit fc1 --ctrlr B --admin_state offline --force