Overview

This article provides information regarding the CLI command community.

You can use the community command to configure Exinda appliance community settings.

Notes:

An Exinda Community is a collection of Exinda appliances in a user's network.
Appliances that are part of the same community can accelerate to/from each other.
Exinda appliances can automatically discover other appliances in their community.

Information

Note: The following syntax convention is used:

{}: Options are enclosed in braces and are separated by '|'
[]: Optional keywords are enclosed in brackets
<>: User input is required where variables are enclosed in greater-than and less-than symbols

The following table describes the commands used for performing common actions related to community:

Action Description	Command	Parameter Description
To configure the community group that this appliance belongs to	`community group <number>`	NA (Not Applicable)
To manually add remote appliances to the community group	`community node <name> address <address> port <port>`	node <name> — The name of the remote node (e.g. hostname) address <address> — The IPv4 address of the remote appliance port <port> — The port to connect to.
To delete the cache of other community members that this node remembers	`community delete-db`	NA (Not Applicable)
To enable backward compatibility to allow appliances running ExOS version 6.4.0 and earlier in the same community	`community compatibility pre-v6.4.0 enable`	Backward compatibility is enabled by default.