Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001194-01, April 2009)

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Best practices for zoning

• Clear the entire contents of the current Web Tools Zone Admin buffer.

• Delete the entire persistent contents of the fabric zoning database.

The wizard allows you to define one and only one name for each device port (WWN). Devices

with one or more aliases are considered already named and are not displayed.

Zone configuration analysis

You must use DCFM Professional or Enterprise Edition 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).