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3 – Managing Fabrics Zoning a Fabric
You cannot edit an active zone set on a switch. You must configure an inactive zone set to your needs and then activate that updated zone set to apply the changes to the fabric. When you activate a zone set, the switch distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning database on every switch in the fabric. However, in addition to the merged active zone set, each switch maintains its own original zone set in its zoning database. Only one zone set can be active at one time.
NOTE: If the Interop Auto Save parameter is enabled on the Zoning Configuration dialog, then every time the active zone set changes, the switch will copy it into an inactive zone set stored on the switch. You can edit this copy of the active zone set stored on the switch, and activate the updated copy to conveniently apply the changes to the active zone set. The edited copy then becomes the active zone set.
The Edit Zoning dialog has a Zone Sets tree on the left and a Port/Device (or members) tree on the right. Both trees use display conventions similar to the fabric tree for expanding and contracting zone sets, zones, and ports. An expanded port shows the port Fibre Channel address; an expanded address shows the port World Wide Name. You can select zone sets, zones, and ports in the following ways:
Click a zone, zone set, or port icon.
Hold down the Shift key while clicking several consecutive icons.
Hold down the Control key while clicking several
Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or a
Use the Edit Zoning dialog to define zoning changes, and click the Apply button to open the Error Check dialog. Click the Error Check button to have SANsurfer Switch Manager check for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone sets, and ACL zones with
Table 3-4. Edit Zoning Dialog Tool Bar Buttons and Icons
Tool Bar Button
Description
Create Zone Set button - create a new zone set
