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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 39 Configuring Users and Common Roles
Role Distributions
Discarding the Changes
If you discard (abort) the changes made to the pending database, the configuration database remains
unaffected and the lock is released.
To discard role-based configuration changes using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Switches > Security and then select Users and Roles in the Physical Attributes pane. Click the
Roles CFS tab in the Information pane.
Step 2 Set the Config Action drop-down menu to abort to discard any uncommitted changes.
Step 3 Click Apply Changes to save this change.
Enabling Distribution
To enable role-based configuration distribution using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Switches > Security and then select Users and Roles in the Physical Attributes pane. Click the
Roles CFS tab in the Information pane.
Step 2 Set the Global drop-down menu to enable to enable CFS distribution.
Step 3 Click Apply Changes to save this change.
Clearing Sessions
To forcibly clear the existing role session in the fabric using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Switches > Security and then select Users and Roles in the Physical Attributes pane. Click the
Roles CFS tab in the Information pane.
Step 2 Set the Config Action drop-down menu to clear to clear the pending database.
Step 3 Click Apply Changes to save this change.
Note Any changes in the pending database are lost when you clear a session.