Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.0.0 (53-1000606-01, April 2008)

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Managing zoning with Web Tools
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ATTENTION
Any changes you make in the Zone Administration window are held in a buffered environment and
are not updated in the zoning database until you save the changes. If you close the Zone
Administration window without saving your changes, your changes are lost. To save the buffered
changes you make in the Zone Administration window to the zoning database on the switch, see
“Saving local zoning changes” on page 99.
Note the following:
• “Saving” means updating the zoning database on the switch with the local changes from the
Web Tools buffer.
• “Refreshing” means copying the current state of the zoning database on the switch to the Web
Tools buffer, overwriting its current contents.
In the Zone Administration window, all WWNs also display vendor names. In the Member Selection
List panel (see Figure 46), you can right-click port and device nodes to display which aliases the
port or device is a member of. In addition, you can right-click the device nodes and click View
Device Detail to display detailed information about the selected device.
The Member Selection List panel displays both physical and logical FC ports; however, GbE ports
are not supported for zoning. To verify whether you have any unzoned devices, analyze the current
configuration for unzoned and offline devices (for more information see “Creating configuration
analysis reports” on page 111).
The Member Selection List displays virtual initiators if the chassis has an FC4-16IP blade in it; they
are shown under a separate folder icon called Virtual Initiators.
NOTE
TI Zones are not displayed in Web Tools.
Admin Domain considerations: The Member Selection List panel displays a filtered list of ports.
• Direct port members are zoneable and are displayed in the tree.
• Indirect port members to which owned devices are attached are displayed in the tree, but
cannot be added to a zone or alias.
• Direct device members are zoneable and are displayed in the tree.
• Indirect device members (devices that are currently attached to owned ports) are also
zoneable and displayed in the tree. But if such a device is later moved to a non-owned port it
will no longer be displayed or zoneable.
• Switches and blades are displayed only if they contain owned ports or devices, regardless of
switch ownership.
• Ports that are indirect members only because the switch is owned are not displayed.
• When no user- defined Admin Domains are present on the switch, AD0 will show the port
count. If there are user-defined Admin Domains, AD0 does not show port count and the
user-defined AD shows port count.
Refreshing fabric information
This function refreshes the display of fabric elements only (switches, ports, and devices). It does
not affect any zoning element changes or update zone information in the Zone Administration
window. You can refresh the fabric element information displayed at any time.