Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002152-01, March 2012)

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Zoning management
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Any local zoning changes are buffered by the Zone Admin window until explicitly saved to the fabric.
If the fabric zoning database is independently changed by another user or from another interface
(for example, the CLI) while Web Tools zoning changes are still pending, the refresh icon starts to
blink (after a 15–30 second polling delay). You can then decide to refresh the current Web Tools
zoning view to reflect the new, externally changed contents of the fabric zoning database, in which
case any pending local changes are lost, or you can ignore the blinking refresh icon and save your
local changes, overwriting the external changes that triggered the icon to blink.
You can refresh zoning to back out of current, unsaved work and start over.
You can refresh the zoning information at any time, either using the refresh icon (whether it is
flashing or not) or from the View menu.
The following procedure updates the information in the Zone Admin window with the information
saved in the zoning database on the switch.
ATTENTION
When you refresh the buffered information in the Zone Admin window, any zoning configuration
changes you made and not yet saved are erased from the buffer and replaced with the currently
enabled zone configuration information that is saved on the switch.
To refresh the Zone Admin window, perform the following steps.
1. Launch the Zone Admin window as described in “Opening the Zone Admin window” on
page 118.
2. Select View > Refresh Zoning or click Refresh.
This re-displays the information in the Zone Admin window with the information in the switch’s
zoning database. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in “Refreshing
fabric information” on page 121. Any unsaved zoning changes are deleted.
Saving local zoning changes
All information displayed and all changes made in the Zone Admin window are buffered until you
save the changes. In that case any other user looking at the zone information for the switch do not
see the changes you have made until you save them.
Saving the changes propagates any changes made in the Zone Admin window (buffered changes)
to the zoning database on the switch. If another user has a zoning operation in progress at the time
that you attempt to save changes, a warning displays that indicates that another zoning transaction
is in progress on the fabric. You can select to abort the other transaction and override it with yours.
If the zoning database size exceeds the maximum allowed, you cannot save the changes. The
zoning database summary displays the maximum zoning database size.
This action updates the entire contents of the Zone Admin window, not just the selected zone,
alias, or configuration. You can save your changes at any time during the Zone Admin session.
To save the local zone changes, perform the following steps.
1. Make the zoning changes in the Zone Admin window.
2. Select Zoning Actions > Save Config.
NOTE
If you have made changes to a configuration, you must enable the configuration before the changes
are effective. To enable the configuration, refer to “Enabling zone configurations” on page 131.