How to secure an ATTO FibreBridge in ONTAP 9.5 and later

Applies to

ONTAP 9.5+

Description

• Starting in ONTAP 9.5 in-band management of the ATTO 7500N FibreBridge is supported.
• It is recommended to secure the bridge (disable ethernet configuration) if in-band management is used. Extensive network traffic might have impact on the availability or performance of the ATTO FibreBridge.
• This allows the bridge to be managed over FC from the Ontap CLI, functionality includes:
  • Configuration changes
  • Bridge firmware updates
  • Data collection
  • Bridge reboot