management server assumes you want to select a pre-existing zone or create one manually when you deselect the Automatically Configure Zoning option.

•To reuse a zone - Select a zone in the Zone pane and then click Step 5. Expand a fabric node to view its zones.

•To create a zone - Select a fabric in the zone pane, click the button, type a zone name. See the following topic for more information.

If you see the icon, the fabric cannot be reached.

Table 62 Zone Icons

IconDescription

Its location on the page determines its use:

•Displayed above Zone pane - Button for creating zones.

•In Zone pane - Icon for a zone.

Zone Alias

Port

IMPORTANT: (McDATA switches only) Path Provisioning looks for the names of the active zone set and of the active zones and all of their saved counterparts in the zoning library in EFC Manager. The provisioning job only occurs if those names match.

Creating a Zone

To create a zone:

1.Select a fabric in the zone pane.

2.Click the button located above the Zone pane.

3.Type a zone name in the dialog box. The following restrictions apply: Naming Conventions for Brocade Switches:

•The name must contain 1 to 64 characters.

•The name must begin with a letter. Any character other than the first character can be a letter, a number (0 to 9), or an underscore (_).

•The name is case sensitive. For example, “Zone1” and “zone1” are different zones.

•You cannot create a zone with the same name as an existing zone, zone alias or zone set. For example, if you create a zone named “new”, you cannot give a zone, zone alias, or zone set the same name.

•The following characters are invalid for Brocade switches: caret (^), dash (-), and dollar sign ($).

Naming Conventions for McDATA and Connectrix Switches:

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