CFS = Cisco Fabric Services

CFS is a SAN-OS feature indtroduced in 2.0(1b) release. It allows you to perform almost any configuration tast on one MDS switch and automatically copy it to other MDS switches in the fabric using fibre-channel connections. Not al appications support CFS.

You could see which applications are supported and enabled by CSF by using the command: show cfs application:

mds9506# show cfs application

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 Application    Enabled   Scope
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 ntp            No        Physical-fc-ip
 fscm           Yes       Physical-fc
 role           No        Physical-fc-ip
 rscn           No        Logical
 radius         No        Physical-fc-ip
 fctimer        No        Physical-fc
 syslogd        No        Physical-fc-ip
 callhome       No        Physical-fc-ip
 fcdomain       No        Logical
 fc-redirect    Yes       Physical-fc
 device-alias   Yes       Physical-fc

Total number of entries = 11