Data Center Fabric Manager Professional User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001355-01, November 2009)

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Accessing zoning
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• Traffic Isolation zones (TI zones)
Isolate inter-switch traffic to a specific, dedicated path through the fabric. See “Traffic isolation
zoning” on page 397 for more information.
Online zoning
Online zoning allows you to do the following:
• View both defined and active zone information in the fabric.
• Create and modify zones and zone configurations in the software zone database.
• Activate a zone configuration in order to publish the zone information in the selected fabric.
• Deactivate the current active zone configuration.
• Configure zoning policies in the selected fabric.
• Generate zoning reports for the fabric.
Accessing zoning
You can access Zoning from the main screen of the Management application using any of the
following methods:
• Select Configure > Zoning > Fabric.
• Click the Zoning icon on the toolbar.
• Right-click a port, switch, switch group, or fabric in the device list and select Zoning.
• Right-click a port, switch, switch group, or fabric in the Connectivity Map and select Zoning.
Zoning naming conventions
The naming rules for zone names, zone aliases, and zone configuration names vary with the type of
fabric.
The following conventions apply to Fibre Channel fabrics:
• Names are case sensitive in McDATA Open Mode. However, names are not case sensitive in
Brocade Native Mode or McDATA Fabric Mode.
• Zone, alias, and configuration names cannot begin with “red_”, “lsan_red_”, or “d__efault__”.
Zone configuration names cannot begin with “r_e_d_i_r_c__fg”. These prefixes are reserved.
• Names cannot begin with a numeric character or a special character.
• Recommended character limit: 64 characters.
• Duplicate names are not allowed between zones, zone aliases, and zone configurations within
a zone database.