HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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b. Optional: In the Name box, modify the name that has been assigned to the backup zone set.
The management server assigns the name by appending the date and time of the zone set
you have selected to become active, as shown in the following example:
zone_name_2005-05-17_13-41-05
where
• zone_name is the name of the zone you are making active.
• 2005-05-17 is the date you made the zone active in the format yyyy-mm-dd. In the
example, the date is May 17, 2005.
• 13-41-05 is the time the copy was made in the format hh-mm-ss, using 24 hour
notation. The time is formatted as hour-minute-second, and it uses the 24-hour notation. In
the example, the time is 1:41:05 p.m.
The name of the backup zone set must follow the naming conventions described in ”Zone
Naming Conventions” on page 525.
NOTE: The management server truncates the name of the backup zone set if it is more than
44 characters long so that it can fit the date and time into the zone set name, which cannot
be more than 64 characters. For example, if you have a zone set named
McDATA_Switches_Burlington_Massachusetts_United_States, The
management server truncates the name to
McDATA_Switches_Burlington_Massachusetts_Un_2005-05-17_13-41-05
when it creates the backup zone set.
8. To activate the zone, click OK.
Zones and Zone Sets Listed Twice
Sometimes the Navigation tab and the Provisioning Manager pages list the zones and zone sets
twice for McDATA and Connectrix switches. This is because EFC Manager and Connectrix
Manager contain an offline Zoning Library. This Zoning Library holds all zone sets, zones, and zone
members. When you activate a zone set, the zone set along with its zones and zone members is
copied to the McDATA and/or Connectrix switches and activated. This creates an active copy, in
addition to the saved copy that already exits in the Zoning Library. If you edit the saved copy of the
zone or zone set in the Zoning Library, you must then reactivate the saved copy of the active zone
set.
For example, assume you have the following information in the EFC Zoning Library:
ZoneSet A
Zone A1
ZoneMember A1a
ZoneSet B
Zone B1
ZoneMember B1b