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

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Access control
For live zone databases, you can update the zone databases with the following roles only:
• Admin
• Zone Admin
• Fabric Admin
If you do not have one of these roles, you can launch the Zone Editor only in read-only mode.
You can update an offline zone database with any role.
Admin Domain considerations
If an Admin Domain is removed from the fabric, Fabric Manager deletes all of the zone databases
associated with that Admin Domain. Offline zone databases are associated with an Admin Domain
number and not an Admin Domain name in the Fabric Manager zone database repository.
If an Admin Domain is renamed (but the ID remains the same), the offline zone databases are still
available.
Limitations
You can edit only one zone database at a time in the Zone Editor. If you want to manage LSAN
zones on multiple fabrics, you must edit the LSAN zones in each fabric’s zone database and then
apply them at the same time later, or edit the zone database in one fabric and save a copy of that
zone database to all other fabrics and apply them individually.
NOTE
When launching Fabric Manager from a Solaris host, performing save operations from the Zone
Editor Tool dialog can cause the Zone Editor to lose focus and return to the main Fabric Manager
window.
Offline zone editing
Offline editing refers to editing the zone database from the Fabric Manager repository. Online
editing refers to editing the live zone database on a fabric (currently what you can do using Web
Tools). You can do the following offline:
• Export and import the entire zone database to and from local storage.
• Edit zone information locally, without affecting the fabric. Zone changes are applied to the local
copy and can be applied to the fabric at a later time.
• Compare two zone databases and visually analyze the differences.
• Merge two zone databases. You can merge only the zones and zone configurations of those
zone databases.
Zone database export and import
Exporting the zone database saves a copy of that zone database for backup purposes. Following
are some examples of when you might want to export and import the zone databases: