Setting The Consistency Policy Fabric-Wide; Acl Policy Database Distribution Behavior; Fabric-Wide Consistency Policy Settings - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Table 35 describes how the target switch database distribution settings affect the distribution.
Table 35

ACL policy database distribution behavior

Target switch
Fabric OS Database
version setting
5.1.0 or NA
earlier
5.2.0 Reject
Accept
To distribute the local ACL policies:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the following command:
distribute -p <database_id> -d <switch_list>
database_id
switch_list

Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide

The fabric-wide consistency policy enforcement setting determines the distribution behavior when changes
to a policy are activated. Using the tolerant or strict fabric-wide consistency policy ensures that changes to
local ACL policy databases are automatically distributed to other switches in the fabric.
When you set the fabric-wide consistency policy using the fddCfg command with the
fabwideset <database_id> option, both the fabric-wide consistency policy and specified
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database are distributed to the fabric.The active policies of the specified databases overwrite the
corresponding active and defined policies on the target switches.
Policy changes that are saved but not activated are stored locally until a policy database change is
activated. Activating a policy automatically distributes the Active policy set for that policy type (SCC, DCC,
or both), to the other switches in the fabric.
NOTE: FC routers cannot join a fabric with a strict fabric-wide consistency policy. FC routers do not
support the fabric-wide consistency policies.
Table 36 describes the fabric-wide consistency settings.
Table 36

Fabric-wide consistency policy settings

Setting Value
Absent null
Tolerant database_id
Strict database_id:S
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Distribution
Fails
Fails
Succeeds
A semicolon-separated list of the local databases to be distributed: SCC, DCC, or both.
A semicolon-separated list of switch Domain IDs, switch names, or switch WWN
addresses of the target switches that will received the distribution.
Use an asterisk (*) to distribution the database to all Fabric OS 5.2.0 and later switches
in the fabric. For example, entering the command: distribute -p SCC -d "*"
distributes the SCC policy to all 5.2.0 and later switches in the fabric.
When a policy is activated
Database is not automatically distributed to other switches in the fabric.
All updated and new policies of the type specified (SCC, DCC, or both)
are distributed to all Fabric 5.2.0 and later switches in the fabric.
All updated and new policies of the type specified (SCC, DCC, or both)
are distributed to all switches in the fabric.
Results
An error is returned. The entire transaction is aborted and
no databases are updated.
The target switch explicitly refuses the distribution.
The entire transaction is aborted and no databases are
updated.
The target switch accepts the distribution.