Cisco Systems MDS 9000 Database Interaction

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 31 Port Security
Configuring Port Security Manually
Database Interaction
Table 31-3 lists the differences and interactions between the active and configuration databases
.
Table 31-3 Active and Configuration Port Security Databases
Configuration Database Active Database
Read-write. Read-only.
Saving the configuration saves all the entries in
the configuration database.
Saving the configuration only saves the activated
entries. Learned entries are not saved.
Once activated, the configuration database can be
modified without any effect on the active
database.
Once activated, all devices that have already
logged into the VSAN are also learned and added
to the active database.
You can overwrite the configuration database with
the active database.
You can overwrite the active database with the
configured database by activating the port
security database. Forcing an activation may
violate the entries already configured in the active
database.