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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 31 Distributing Device Alias Services
Legacy Zone Alias Conversion
Step 1 Expand End Devices and then select Device Alias in the Physical Attributes pane.
You see the device alias configuration in the Information pane. The CFS tab is the default tab.
Step 2 Select enable from the Global drop-down menus to enabled switch aliases.
Step 3 Select commit from the Config Action drop-down menu for the newly enabled switches.
Step 4 Click Apply Changes to commit and distribute these changes or click Undo Changes to discard any
unsaved changes.
Discarding Changes
If you discard the changes made to the pending database, the following events occur:
1. The effective database contents remain unaffected.
2. The pending database is emptied of its contents.
3. The fabric lock is released for this feature.
To discard the device alias session using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand End Devices and then select Device Alias in the Physical Attributes pane.
You see the device alias configuration in the Information pane. The CFS tab is the default tab.
Step 2 Select abort from the Config Action drop-down menu.
Step 3 Click Apply Changes to discard the session.
Legacy Zone Alias Conversion
You can import legacy zone alias configurations to use this feature without loosing data, if they satisfy
the following restrictions:
• Each zone alias has only one member.
• The member type is pWWN.
• The name and definition of the zone alias should not be the same as any existing device alias name.
If any name conflict exists, the zone aliases are not imported.
Tip Ensure to copy any required zone aliases to the device alias database as required by your configuration.
When an import operation is complete, the modified alias database is distributed to all other switches in
the physical fabric when you perform the commit operation. At this time if you do not want to distribute
the configuration to other switches in the fabric, you can perform the abort operation and the merge
changes are completely discarded.
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