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

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Best practices for zoning
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Zone configuration analysis
You must use Brocade Network Advisor to analyze the following zone configurations:
• Add unzoned devices
• Remove offline or inaccessible devices
• Replace offline devices
• Define device alias
Best practices for zoning
The following are recommendations for using zoning:
• Always zone using the highest Fabric OS-level switch.
Switches with lower Fabric OS versions do not have the capability to view all the functionality
that a newer Fabric OS provides as functionality is backwards compatible but not forwards
compatible.
• Zone using the core switch versus an edge switch.
• Zone using a director over a switch.
A director has more resources to handle zoning changes and implementations.
• Zone on the switch you connect to when bringing up Web Tools (the proxy switch).