•2005-05-17is the date you made the zone active. The date is formatted as year-month-day. In the example, the date is May 17, 2005.

•13-41-05is the time the copy was made. 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 following naming conventions for McDATA and Connectrix switches:

•The name can have a maximum of 64 characters.

•The first character of a zone set name must be a letter (A-Z, AZ).

•A zone set name cannot contain spaces.

•Valid characters are a-a, AA, 0-9, caret (^), dash (-), underscore (_), and dollar sign ($).

•All names must be unique and may not differ by case. For example, myzoneset and MyZoneSet are both valid individually, but the are not considered to be unique.

NOTE: The management server truncates the name of the backup zone set if it is more than 44 characters long. For example, assume 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_13-41-05when it creates the backup zone set because it the original name was more than 44 characters long. The management server truncates the original name so that it can fit the date and time into the zone set name, which cannot be more than 64 characters.

7.To activate the zone, click OK.

IMPORTANT: Only one zone set can be active at a time. When you make a zone set active, the previous active zone set becomes inactive.

Zones and Zone Sets Are Sometimes Listed Twice

Sometimes the Navigation tab and the Provisioning Manager pages list the zones and zone sets twice for McDATA and Connectrix switches. EFC Manager and Connectrix Manager contain an off line 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 have to 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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