b.Optional: In the Name box, modify the name that has been assigned to the backup zone set. The management server assigns the name by appending the date and time of the zone set you have selected to become active, as shown in the following example:

zone_name_2005-05-17_13-41-05

where

•zone_name is the name of the zone you are making active.

•2005-05-17is the date you made the zone active in the format yyyy-mm-dd. In the example, the date is May 17, 2005.

•13-41-05is the time the copy was made in the format hh-mm-ss, using 24 hour notation. The time is formatted as hour-minute-second, and it uses the 24-hour notation. In the example, the time is 1:41:05 p.m.

The name of the backup zone set must follow the naming conventions described in ”Zone Naming Conventions” on page 525.

NOTE: The management server truncates the name of the backup zone set if it is more than 44 characters long so that it can fit the date and time into the zone set name, which cannot be more than 64 characters. For example, if you have a zone set named

McDATA_Switches_Burlington_Massachusetts_United_States, The management server truncates the name to

McDATA_Switches_Burlington_Massachusetts_Un_2005-05-17_13-41-05 when it creates the backup zone set.

8.To activate the zone, click OK.

Zones and Zone Sets Listed Twice

Sometimes the Navigation tab and the Provisioning Manager pages list the zones and zone sets twice for McDATA and Connectrix switches. This is because EFC Manager and Connectrix Manager contain an offline Zoning Library. This Zoning Library holds all zone sets, zones, and zone members. When you activate a zone set, the zone set along with its zones and zone members is copied to the McDATA and/or Connectrix switches and activated. This creates an active copy, in addition to the saved copy that already exits in the Zoning Library. If you edit the saved copy of the zone or zone set in the Zoning Library, you must then reactivate the saved copy of the active zone set.

For example, assume you have the following information in the EFC Zoning Library:

ZoneSet A

Zone A1

ZoneMember A1a

ZoneSet B

Zone B1

ZoneMember B1b

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