Committing Changes

If you commit the changes made to the pending database, the following events occur:

  1. The pending database contents overwrites the effective database contents.
  2. The pending database is emptied of its contents.
  3. The fabric lock is released for this feature.

Detailed Steps

To commit the changes to the device alias database, follow these steps:

  1. Expand End Devices, and then select Device Alias in the Physical Attributes pane.

    2. You see the device alias configuration in the Information pane. The CFS tab is the default tab.

  2. Select enable from the Global drop-down menus to enable switch aliases.
  3. Select commit from the Config Action drop-down menu for the newly enabled switches.
  4. Click Apply Changes to commit and distribute these changes or click Undo Changes to discard any unsaved changes.

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