If a user activates ZoneSetB, the existing information in ZoneSetB is copied to the switch and activated. The Zoning Library, however, still contains the older information. The following is what you would see in the Zoning Library:
ZoneSets:
ZoneSet A
ZoneSet B (this is the inactive ZoneSet in the Zoning Library)
ZoneSet B (this is the active ZoneSet which is not the same as the one above)
Zones:
Zone A1
Zone B1 (this is the inactive one)
Zone B1 (this is the active one)
ZoneMembers:
ZoneMember A1a
ZoneMember B1b (inactive)
ZoneMember B1b (active)
Note that ZoneSetB and its members are listed twice in the previous example. They are also displayed twice on the Navigation tabs and Provisioning Manager pages. For example, If you click Zone A1 in EFC Manager or Connectrix Manager, you are shown that it has member ZoneMember A1a. The name of an item in the provider cannot be changed, because the management server is required to report the actual name of the element.
If you remove a zone from the Zoning library, the zone is shown only once in the user interface of the management server. The zone is not displayed at all in the management server if it is an inactive zone. Each time you make changes in the Zoning Library using EFC Manager or Connectrix Manager, you must perform Discovery Data Collection for the management server to obtain the latest information.
Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco Switches)
For Cisco switches discovered through SNMP, you can change how much information the management server collects from the inactive database during Discovery Data Collection. The zone database is stored on each switch. If the switches are configured to distribute zone database changes to all switches in the fabric, it is only necessary to get zone database information from one switch in each VSAN.
The following options are supported:
•all - Show all zone database information from all switches. This may produce duplicate information and result in large zone tables if zone databases are distributed and/or large.
•primary (default) - Show only zone database information from the primary switch in each VSAN. This is the recommended setting if zone information is distributed to all switches in the fabric or if only the primary switch zone database is used. Note that the primary switch can be different for different VSANs.
•none - Do not display any zone database information. This option is not recommended.
To change the amount of information collected:
534 Provisioning Manager