HP SAN manual Managing the zoning database, Editing the zoning database

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Managing the zoning database

Managing the zoning database consists of the following:

•Editing the zoning database, page 40

•Configuring the zoning database, page 42

•Saving the zoning database to a file, page 42

•Restoring the zoning database from a file, page 42

•Restoring the default zoning database, page 43

•Removing all zoning definitions, page 43

Editing the zoning database

To edit the zoning database for a particular switch, open the Zoning menu and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning dialog shown in Figure 14. Changes can only be made to an inactive zone set, that is stored in flash (non-volatile) memory and retained after resetting a switch.

	Port/Device
Zone Sets	Port/Device
Tree	Tree

Figure 14 Edit zoning dialog

To apply zoning to a fabric, choose a zone set and activate it. When you activate a zone set, the switch distributes that zone set and its zones to every switch in the fabric. This zone set is known as the active zone set.

You cannot edit an active zone set on a switch. You must configure an inactive zone set to your needs and then activate that updated zone set to apply the changes to the fabric. When you activate a zone set, the switch distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning database on every switch in the fabric. However, in addition to the merged active zone set, each switch maintains its own original zone set in its zoning database.

NOTE: If the Interop 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.

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:

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