Compaq AA-RHBYA-TE 135267-001, User Manual

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Zoning 6-9
Using Zoning
This section contains general information and examples on managing and
monitoring the Switch using Zoning. The section discusses:
■ Zoning Components
■ Easy Setup and Administration of Zoning
■ Zone Management
■
Zone Enforcement
■
Multi Switch Fabrics.
Zoning Components
Zoning has several components. In addition to the zones themselves, zoning is
comprised of: zone members, zone aliases, and zone configurations. These
components are referred to as zone objects.
Easy Setup and Administration of Zoning
A zone is specified by a zone name. A zone member is specified by a physical
Fabric port number, a node world wide name, or a port world wide name.
Aliases (symbolic names) are used to reduce the amount of typing required for
Zoning administration. A set of zones is configured during Zone Specification.
You select which zone configuration is currently in effect. At any one time,
you might decide that Zoning is disabled or one Zoning configuration is in
effect, such as for backup.
Non-zoned Components
When a zone configuration is enabled, components that are not in the
configuration can not see each other across the Fabric.
Zone Management
Zoning Management is performed using Telnet via either out-of-band or in-
band communication by logging into a Switch. Any Switch in the Fabric can
be used, a change made to the Zoning information on one Switch is replicated
through all Fabric Switches.