Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v3.2.0, v4.4.0, v5.0.1, v5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 (53-1000244-02, June 2007)

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SAVING CHANGES TO SECURE FABRIC OS POLICIES
You can save changes to Secure Fabric OS policies without activating them by entering the
secPolicySave command. This saves the changes to the defined policy set.
CAUTION
Until the secPolicySave or secPolicyActivate command is issued, all policy changes are in volatile
memory only and are lost if the switch reboots or the current session is logged out.
To save changes to the Secure Fabric OS policies without activating them
1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.
2. Type the secPolicySave command.
primaryfcs:admin> secpolicysave
Committing configuration...done.
Saving Define FMPS ...
done
ACTIVATING CHANGES TO SECURE FABRIC OS POLICIES
Implement changes to the Secure Fabric OS policies using the secPolicyActivate command. This
saves the changes to the active policy set and activates all policy changes since the last time the
command was issued. You cannot activate policies on an individual basis; all changes to the entire
policy set are activated by the command
CAUTION
Until a secPolicySave or secPolicyActivate command is issued, all policy changes are in volatile
memory only and are lost upon rebooting.
To activate changes to the Secure Fabric OS policies
1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.
2. Type the secPolicyActivate command:
primaryfcs:admin> secpolicyactivate
About to overwrite the current Active data.
ARE YOU SURE (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Committing configuration...done.
Saving Defined FMPS ...
done
Saving Active FMPS ...
done
ADDING A MEMBER TO AN EXISTING POLICY
You can add members to policies by using the secPolicyAdd command. As soon as a policy has
been created, the aspect of the fabric managed by that policy is closed to access by all devices that
are not listed in the policy.