Locking The Fabric; Committing Changes - Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring Fibre Channel Domain Parameters
SUMMARY STEPS
1. configure terminal
2. fcdomain distribute
3. no fcdomain distribute
DETAILED STEPS
Command or Action
Step 1 configure terminal
Example:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)#
Step 2
fcdomain distribute
Example:
switch(config)# fcdomain distribute
Step 3 no fcdomain distribute
Example:
switch(config)# no fcdomain distribute

Locking the Fabric

The first action that modifies the existing configuration creates the pending configuration and locks the feature
in the fabric. After you lock the fabric, the following conditions apply:
• No other user can make any configuration changes to this feature.
• A pending configuration is created by copying the active configuration. Subsequent modifications are

Committing Changes

You can commit pending domain configuration changes and release the lock.
To apply the pending domain configuration changes to other SAN switches in the VSAN, you must commit
the changes. The pending configuration changes are distributed and, on a successful commit, the configuration
changes are applied to the active configuration in the SAN switches throughout the VSAN and the fabric lock
is released.
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made to the pending configuration and remain there until you commit the changes to the active
configuration (and other switches in the fabric) or discard them.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS SAN Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.2(1)N1(1)
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Enables domain configuration distribution.
Disables (default) domain configuration
distribution.
Domain IDs
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