Setting The Consistency Policy Fabric-Wide - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

2. Enter the following command:
distribute -p <database_id> -d <switch_list>
database_id
switch_list

Setting the consistency policy fabric-wide

Fabric OS 5.2.x introduces a fabric-wide consistency policy for SCC and DCC policies. 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
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
and/or DCC), 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 30 describes the fabric-wide consistency settings.
Table 30 Fabric-wide consistency policy settings
Setting
Absent
Tolerant
Strict
To display the fabric-wide consistency policy
1. Connect to the switch and log in.
2. Enter the fddCfg --showall command.
A semicolon-separated list of the local databases to be distributed: SCC
and/or DCC.
A is 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.x and
higher switches in the fabric. For example, entering the command:
distribute -p SCC -d "*" distributes the SCC policy to all 5.2.x and
higher switches in the fabric.
Value When a policy is activated
null Database is not automatically distributed to other switches in the
fabric.
database_id All updated and/or new policies of the type specified (SCC and/or
DCC) are distributed to all Fabric 5.2.x and higher switches in the
fabric.
database_id:S All updated and/or new policies of the type specified (SCC and/or
DCC) are distributed to all switches in the fabric.
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