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About CFS
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About CFS
Many features in the Cisco MDS switches require configuration synchronization in all switches in the
fabric. Maintaining configuration synchronization across a fabric is important to maintain fabric
consistency. In the absence of a common infrastructure, such synchronization is achieved through
manual configuration at each switch in the fabric. This process is tedious and error prone.
Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) provides a common infrastructure for automatic configuration
synchronization in the fabric. It provides the transport function as well as a rich set of common services
to the applications. CFS has the ability to discover CFS capable switches in the fabric and discovering
application capabilities in all CFS capable switches.
Cisco SAN-OS Features Using CFS
The following Cisco SAN-OS features use the CFS infrastructure:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
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NTP (see
"NTP Configuration Distribution" section on page
Dynamic Port VSAN Membership (see
Distributed Device Alias Services (see
IVR topology (see
"Database Merge Guidelines" section on page
TACACS and RADIUS (see the
User and administrator roles (see
Port security (see
"Port Security Configuration Distribution" section on page
iSNS (see
"About iSCSI Storage Name Services" section on page
Call Home (see
"Call Home Configuration Distribution" section on page
Syslog (see
"System Message Logging Configuration Distribution" section on page
Fctimer (see
"fctimer Distribution" section on page
SCSI Flow Services (see
"Enabling SCSI Flow Configuration Distribution" section on page
Saving startup configurations in the fabric using the Fabric Startup Configuration Manager (FSCM)
(see
"Saving Startup Configurations in the Fabric" section on page
Chapter 17, "Creating Dynamic
Chapter 20, "Distributing Device Alias
"Distributing AAA Server Configuration" section on page
"Role-Based Authorization" section on page
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Chapter 5
Using the CFS Infrastructure
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