About Call Home Database Distribution Using CFS
When enabled, Call Home Configuration Distribution allows you to distribute Call Home configurations to all the switches in the fabric. You can enable fabric distribution for all Cisco MDS switches in the fabric. However, the Switch priority and the Syscontact names are not distributed.
You automatically acquire a fabric-wide lock when you issue the first configuration operation after you enabled distribution in a switch. The Call Home application uses the effective and pending database model to store or commit the configuration changes.
You can choose to either commit the changes or discard the changes; in either case, the lock can be released. If you have performed a Call Home task and have forgotten to release the lock, an administrator can release the lock from any switch in the fabric. If the administrator performs this task, your changes to the pending database are discarded and the fabric lock is released.
To enable Call Home fabric distribution using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
- Select a switch in the Fabric pane.
- Expand Switches, expand Events, and select Call Home in the Physical Attributes pane.
- Click the CFS tab.
- Select a switch in the Information pane.
- Select Enable from the drop-down list in the Admin column in the row for that switch.
- Click the Apply Changes icon to commit the changes.
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