EMC DS-8B manual Zone Administration View, Port Level Zoning, WWN Level Zoning

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Using Web Tools

Zone Administration View

Administrative privileges are required to access this view. If a switch or device is added or removed from the network, it is necessary to save the changes and relaunch the Zone Administration view for the changes to take effect.

When administering Zoning, EMC recommends that you perform the following steps:

1. Define a zone alias for each individual device to make zone administration easier.

2. Create zones and add zone members.

3. Place zones into one or more zone configurations.

4. Enable one of the zone configurations (only one can be enabled at a time).

	There are three separate methods for adding members to a zone. Each
	method corresponds to a zoning mode, and the combination of the
	methods corresponds to an additional mode. Once you select a mode,
	all zoning operations must correspond to that mode, and any zones,
	aliases, and configuration files which do not cannot be selected.
	EMC recommends the use of WWN Zoning. See Table 3-6 for more
	information on this mode.
Table 3-6	Adding Members to a Zone
Zoning Mode Method		Description
Port Level Zoning		Zoning by physical domain/port number. All alias, zoning, and
		configuration file operations must be performed using port.
		Aliases, zones, and configuration files which have objects other
		than ports cannot be selected or operated on.
WWN Level Zoning		Zoning by WWNs only. All alias, zoning, and configuration file
		operations must be performed by WWNs. Aliases, zones, and
		configuration files that have objects other than WWNs cannot be
		selected or operated on.

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