3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning
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The Edit Zoning dialog has a Zone Sets tree on the left and a Port/Device (or
members) tree on the right. Both trees use display conventions similar to the
fabric tree for expanding and contracting zone sets, zones, and ports. An
expanded port shows the port Fibre Channel address; an expanded address
shows the port World Wide Name. You can select zone sets, zones, and ports in
the following ways:
Click a zone, zone set, or port icon.
Right-click to select a zone set or zone, and open the corresponding popup
menu.
Press the
Shift
key while clicking several consecutive icons.
Press the
Control
key while clicking several non-consecutive icons.
Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or a drag-and-drop method, you can create
and manage zone sets and zones in the zoning database.
Table 3-3
describes the
zoning tool bar operations.
Use the Edit Zoning dialog to define zoning changes, and click the
Apply
button
to open the Error Check dialog. Click the
Error Check
button to have QuickTools
check for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone sets, and zones
with non-domain ID/port number membership. Click the
Save Zoning
button to
implement the changes. Click the
Close
button to close the Error Check dialog.
On the Edit Zoning dialog, click the
Close
button to close the Edit Zoning dialog.
Note:
If the Merge Auto Save parameter is enabled on the Zoning
Configuration dialog, then every time the active zone set changes, the
switch will copy it into an inactive zone set stored on the switch. You
can edit this copy of the active zone set stored on the switch, and
activate the updated copy to conveniently apply the changes to the
active zone set. The edited copy then becomes the active zone set.
Table 3-3. Edit Zoning Dialog Tool Bar Buttons and Icons
Button/Icon
Description
Create Zone Set button
—
creates a new zone set
Create Zone button
—
creates a new zone
Create Alias button
—
creates another name for a set of objects
