McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem User Guide (AA-RW20B-TE, December 2005)

58 Managing fabrics
Activating and deactivating a zone set
You must activate a zone set to apply its zoning definitions to the fabric. Only one zone set can be active
at one time. When you activate a zone set, the switch distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning
database on every McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch in the fabric. To activate a zone set, perform the following
procedure:
1. Select Zoning > Activate Zone Set to open the Activate Zone Set dialog.
2. Select a zone set from the Select Zone Set drop-down list.
3. Click Activate the selected zone set.
The purpose of the deactivate function is to suspend all fabric zoning which results in no communication
among devices. It is not necessary to deactivate the active zone set before activating a new one. To
deactivate the active zone set, perform the following procedure:
1. Select Zoning > Deactivate Zone Set to open the Deactivate Zone Set dialog.
2. Acknowledge the warning about traffic disruption.
3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to deactivate the active zone set.
Removing a zone from a zone set
To remove a zone from a zone set, perform the following procedure:
1. Select Zoning > Edit Zoning in the faceplate display to open the Edit Zoning dialog.
2. Select the zone or zones to be removed in the Zone Sets tree.
3. Select Edit > Remove to remove the zone from the zone set.
4. Click Apply to save changes to the zoning database.
Alternatively, you can use shortcut menus to remove a zone from a zone set or from all zone sets in the
database.
Removing a zone set
Removing a zone set from the database causes member zones to become members of the orphan zone set.
The orphan zone set cannot be removed and is not saved on the switch.
To delete a zone set from the database, perform the following procedure:
1. Select Zoning > Edit Zoning in the faceplate display to open the Edit Zoning dialog.
2. Select the zone set to be removed in the Zone Sets tree.
3. Select Edit > Remove to remove the zone set.
4. Click Apply to save changes to the zoning database.
Alternatively, you may use shortcut menus to remove a zone set from the database.
Managing zones
Managing zones involves the following:
• Creating a zone in a zone set, page 59
• Adding zone members, page 59
• Renaming a zone or a zone set, page 60
• Removing a zone member, page 60
• Removing a zone from a zone set, page 60
NOTE: Changes you save to the zoning database on a switch are not propagated to other switches in the
fabric unless you activate a zone set or edit the zoning databases on the individual switches in the fabric.
When a zone set is activated, it is propagated and saved to temporary memory in each McDATA 4Gb
SAN Switch in the fabric. If a switch has the Interop Auto Save parameter enabled in the Zoning Config
dialog, the zone set is saved to permanent memory on that McDATA 4Gb SAN Switch. See ”Configuring
the zoning database” on page 56 for more information.