62 Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 User Guide • September 2008
FIGURE3-3 Edit Zoning Dialog
To apply zoning to a fabric, choose a zone set and activate it. When you activate a
zone set, the switch distributes that zone set and its zones, excluding aliases, to
every switch in the fabric. This zone set is known as the active zone set.
You can not 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 Merge 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.
Figure Legend
1Zone Sets Tree 2Port/Device Tree
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