HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.2 administrator guide (5697-0016, May 2009)

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Table 38 describes the impact of merging fabrics with the same fabric-wide consistency policy that have
SCC, DCC, or both policies.
Non-matching fabric-wide consistency policies
You may encounter one of the following two scenarios described in Table 39 and Table 40 where you are
merging a fabric with a strict policy to a fabric with an absent, tolerant, or non-matching strict policy and
the merge fails and the ports are disabled.
Table 39 shows merges that are not supported.
Table 40 shows a matrix of merging fabrics with tolerant and absent policies.
Table 38 Merging fabrics with matching fabric-wide consistency policies
Fabric-wide
consistency
policy
Fabric A
ACL policies
Fabric B
ACL policies
Merge
results
Database copied
None None None Succeeds No ACL policies copied
None SCC/DCC Succeeds No ACL policies copied
Tolerant None None Succeeds No ACL policies copied.
None SCC/DCC Succeeds ACL policies are copied from
B to A.
SCC/DCC SCC/DCC Succeeds If A and B policies do not
match, a warning is
displayed and policy
commands are disabled
1
.
1. To resolve the policy conflict, manually distribute the database you want to use to the switch with the
mismatched database. Until the conflict is resolved, commands such as fddCfg --fabwideset and
secPolicyActivate are blocked.
Strict None None Succeeds No ACL policies copied.
None SCC/DCC Succeeds ACL policies are copied from
B to A.
Matching
SCC/DCC
Matching
SCC/DCC
Succeeds No ACL policies copied.
Different
SCC/DCC
policies
Different
SCC/DCC
policies
Fails Ports are disabled.
Table 39 Examples of strict fabric merges
Fabric-wide consistency policy setting Expected behavior
Polidy type Fabric A Fabric B
Strict/Tolerant SCC:S;DCC:S SCC;DCC:S Ports connecting switches are
disabled.
SCC;DCC:S SCC:S;DCC
Strict/Absent SCC:S;DCC:S
SCC:S
DCC:S
Strict/Strict SCC:S DCC:S