Configuring The Database Distribution Settings - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

1. Error returned indicating that the distribution setting must be accept before you can set the
fabric-wide consistency policy.

Configuring the database distribution settings

The distribution settings control whether a switch accepts or rejects distributions of databases from other
switches and whether or not the switch may initiate a distribution. Configure the distribution setting to reject
when maintaining the database on a per-switch basis.
Table 28 lists the databases supported starting in Fabric OS 5.2.x.
Table 28 Supported Databases Starting in Fabric OS 5.2.x
Database type
SCC policy database
DCC policy database
Password database
NOTE: See "Distributing the local user
the user account database.
To display the database distribution settings
1. Connect to the switch.
2. Enter the following command:
switch:admin> fddcfg --showall
Local Switch Configuration for all Databases:-
DATABASE - Accept/Reject
-------------------------
SCC
DCC
PWD
Fabric Wide Consistency Policy:- ""
To enable switch-local protection
1. Connect to the switch.
2. Enter the following command:
fddCfg --localreject <
localreject
database_id
To disable switch-local protection
1. Connect to the switch.
Database identifier (ID)
SCC
DCC
PWD
- accept
- accept
- accept
database_ID>
Refuse the databases distributed from other switches. Cannot distribute local
database, manually or automatically, to other switches.
A semicolon-separated list of the local databases to be distributed, either
SCC and/or DCC.
database" on page 63 for details on managing and distributing
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