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3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric
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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.
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.
Right-click to select a zone set or zone, and open the corresponding popup
menu.
Hold down the Shift key while clicking several consecutive icons.
Hold down the Control key while clicking several non-consecutive icons.
Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or a drag-and-drop method, you can create
and manage zone sets and zones in the zoning database. Table 3-3 describes the
zoning tool bar operations.
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 SANbox
Manager check for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone sets,
and ACL zones with non-domain ID/port number membership. Click the Save
Zoning button to implement the changes. Click the Close button to close the
Error Check dialog. On the Edit Zoning dialog, click the Close button to close the
Edit Zoning dialog.
Note: If the FC-SW2-Auto-Save parameter is enabled on the Switch
Properties 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.