Enabling Cfs For An Application - Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Configuration Manual

Using Cisco Fabric Services
• CFS distribution enabled or disabled on a per-application basis—The default (enable or disable) for the
• Explicit CFS commit—Most applications require an explicit commit operation to copy the changes in

Enabling CFS for an Application

All CFS-based applications provide an option to enable or disable the distribution capabilities.
Applications have the distribution enabled by default.
The application configuration is not distributed by CFS unless distribution is explicitly enabled for that
application.
Verifying Application Registration Status
The show cfs application command displays the applications that are currently registered with CFS. The first
column displays the application name. The second column indicates whether the application is enabled or
disabled for distribution (enabled or disabled). The last column indicates the scope of distribution for the
application (logical, physical, or both).
The show cfs application command only displays applications registered with CFS. Conditional services
Note
that use CFS do not appear in the output unless these services are running.
switch# show cfs application
----------------------------------------------
Application
----------------------------------------------
ntp
fscm
rscn
fctimer
syslogd
callhome
fcdomain
device-alias
Total number of entries = 8
The show cfs application name command displays the details for a particular application. It displays the
enabled/disabled state, timeout as registered with CFS, merge capability (if it has registered with CFS for
merge support), and the distribution scope.
switch# show cfs application name fscm
Enabled
Timeout
Merge Capable
Scope
CFS distribution state differs between applications. If CFS distribution is disabled for an application,
that application does not distribute any configuration and does not accept a distribution from other
switches in the network.
the temporary buffer to the application database, to distribute the new database to the network, and to
release the network lock. The changes in the temporary buffer are not applied if you do not perform the
commit operation.
Enabled Scope
No Physical-all
Yes Physical-fc
No Logical
No Physical-fc
No Physical-all
No Physical-all
Yes Logical
Yes Physical-fc
: Yes
: 100s
: No
: Physical-fc
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