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Zoning
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3.7.6
Managing Zones
Managing zones involves the following:
Creating a Zone in a Zone Set
Adding Zone Members
Renaming a Zone
Removing a Zone Member
Removing a Zone from a Zone Set
Removing a Zone from All Zone Sets
3.7.6.1
Creating a Zone in a Zone Set
To create a zone in a zone set, do the following:
1. Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning
dialog.
2. Select a zone set.
3. Open the Edit menu and select Create a Zone.
4. In the Create a Zone dialog, enter a name for the new zone, and click the
OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the Zone Sets dialog. A zone
name must begin with a letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid
characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, ^, $, and -.
5. To add switch ports or attached devices to the zone, choose one of the
following:
In the zone set tree, select the zone set. In the graphic window, select
the port to add to the zone. Open the Edit menu and select Add
Members.
Select a port by port number, Fibre Channel address, or World Wide
Name in the Port/Device tree, and drag it into the zone.
NOTE: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the
managed switch and do not propagate to the rest of the fabric. To
distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide, you must edit
the zoning databases on the individual switches.
NOTE: If you enter the name of a zone that already exists in the
database, the QuickTools web applet will ask if you would like to
add that zone and its membership to the zone set.