Configuring Port Security with Manual Database Configuration

Detailed Steps

To configure port security and manually configure the port security database, follow these steps:

  1. Enable port security. See the "Enabling Port Security" topic.
  2. Manually configure all port security entries into the configure database on each VSAN. See the "Configuring Port Security with Manual Database Configuration" topic.
  3. Activate port security on each VSAN. This turns on auto-learning by default. See the "Activating Port Security" topic.
  4. Disable auto-learn on each VSAN. See the "Disabling Auto-learning" topic.
  5. Copy the running configuration to the startup configuration This saves the port security configure database to the startup configuration.
  6. Repeat Step 1 through Step 5 for all switches in the fabric.

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