HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

Provisioning Manager356
If a user activates ZoneSetB, the existing information in ZoneSetB is copied to the switch and
activated. The Zoning Library, however, still contains the older information. The following is what
you would see in the Zoning Library:
ZoneSets:
ZoneSet A
ZoneSet B (this is the inactive ZoneSet in the Zoning Library)
ZoneSet B (this is the active ZoneSet which is not the same as the one
above)
Zones:
Zone A1
Zone B1 (this is the inactive one)
Zone B1 (this is the active one)
ZoneMembers:
ZoneMember A1a
ZoneMember B1b (inactive)
ZoneMember B1b (active)
Notice ZoneSetB and its members are listed twice in the previous example. They are also displayed
twice on the Navigation tabs and Provisioning Manager pages. If you click Zone A1 in EFC
Manager or Connectrix Manager, you are shown it has member ZoneMember A1a. The other
zone, Zone B1, has ZoneMember B1b. The name of an item in the provider cannot be changed,
because the management server is required to report the actual name of the element.
If you remove a zone from the Zoning library, the zone is shown only once in the user interface of
the management server. The zone is not displayed at all in the management server if it is an inactive
zone.Each time you make changes in the Zoning Library using EFC Manager or Connectrix
Manager, you must perform Discovery Data Collection (Options > Storage Essentials >
Discovery > Run Discovery Data Collection) or Get Details for the management server to
obtain the latest information.
Changing the Amount of Information Collected
from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco Switches)
You can change how much information the management server collects during Discovery Data
Collection/Get Details from the inactive database for Cisco switches discovered through SNMP. The
zone database is stored on each switch. If the switches are configured to distribute zone database
changes to all switches in the fabric, it is only necessary to get zone database information from one
switch in each VSAN.
The following options are supported:
• all - Show all zone database information from all switches. This may produce duplicate
information and result in large zone tables if zone databases are distributed and/or large.
• primary (default) - Show only zone database information from the primary switch in each
VSAN. This option is the recommended setting if zone information is distributed to all switches in
the fabric or if only the primary switch zone database is used. Note that the primary switch can
be different for different VSANs.
• none - Do not display any zone database information. This option is not recommended.