Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Offline zone management

Every monitored fabric has a zone database associated with it. For fabrics with Admin Domains,

every Admin Domain has a zone database associated with it. This zone database contains zone

aliases, zones, and zone configurations. If no zone aliases, zones, or zone configurations are

defined, the zone database is empty.

A fabric or Admin Domain can have only one active zone database associated with it.

Fabric Manager has a zone database repository, in which it stores a copy of each active zone

database. Fabric Manager stores non-active zone databases in the zone database repository, as

well.

You can view the zone database repository by clicking Tasks > Zone Management > Zone

Administration and launching the Zone Administration module, shown in Figure 146.

FIGURE 146 Zone Administration module

The Zone Administration module displays the zone databases grouped by fabric and, within each

fabric, by Admin Domain.

The active zone databases do not have a name. They are denoted by Zone DB (not named) in the

Zone Database Name column. Active zone databases are displayed, even if they are empty.

The non-active zone databases have names so that you can identify them in the repository. These

names are user-defined and must be unique within the fabric or Admin Domain in which they are

located.