3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning
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Right-click a zone set and select Create A Zone from the popup menu.
In the Create a Zone dialog, enter a name for the new zone, and click
the OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the Zone Sets
dialog.
Copy an existing zone by dragging a zone into the new zone set. Refer
to ”Copying a Zone to a Zone Set” on page 3-29.
5. Click the Apply button to save changes to the zoning database.
Activating and Deactivating a Zone Set
You must activate a zone set to apply its zoning definitions to the fabric. Only one
zone set can be active at one time. When you activate a zone set, the switch
distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning database on every switch in the
fabric.
The purpose of the deactivate function is to suspend all fabric zoning which
results in free communication fabric wide or no communication. It is not necessary
to deactivate the active zone set before activating a new one.
To activate a zone set, open the Zoning menu and select Activate Zone Set
to open the Activate Zone Set dialog. Select a zone set from the Select Zone
Set drop-down list, and click the Activate button.
To deactivate the active zone set, open the Zoning menu, select Deactivate
Zone Set. Acknowledge the warning about traffic disruption, and click the
Yes button to confirm that you want to deactivate the active zone set.
Renaming a Zone Set
To rename a zone set, do the following:
1. In the Zone Sets tree of the Edit Zoning dialog, click the zone set to be
renamed.
2. Open the Edit menu and select Rename.
3. In the Rename Zone Set dialog, enter a new name for the zone set.
4. Click the OK button.
Removing a Zone Set
Removing a zone set from the database affects the member zones in the following
ways.
Member zones that are members of other zone sets are not affected.
Zones that are currently not in a zone set are considered to be part of the
“orphan zone set”. The orphan zone set is not an actual zone set, but rather
a way of displaying the zones that are not currently in a zone set.
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