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Chapter 31 Distributing Device Alias Services Device Alias Databases Send documentation comments to [email protected] • Discarding Changes, page 31-5 • Legacy Zone Alias Conversion, page 31-5 About Device Alias Distribution By default, device alias distribution is enabled. The device alias feature uses the coordinated distribution mechanism to distribute the modifications to all switches in a fabric. If you have not committed the changes and you disable distribution, then a commit task will fail Distributing the Device Alias Database To enable the device alias distribution using Fabric Manager, follow these steps: Step 1 Expand End Devices and then select Device Alias in the Physical Attributes pane. You see the device alias configuration in the Information pane Figure 31-1. Figure 31-1 Device Aliases in Fabric Manager Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 The CFS tab is the default tab. Select enable from the Global drop-down menus to enabled switch aliases. Select commit from the Config Action drop-down menu for the newly enabled switches. Click Apply Changes to commit and distribute these changes or click Undo Changes to discard any unsaved changes. OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide 31-3