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

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Offline zone management
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Database deletion
You cannot delete the zone database that is on the fabric. Every fabric has a zone database
associated with it, even if the zone database is empty.
Database checkout
When you edit a zone database, either through the Zone Editor Tool or the Compare/Merge Zone
Database module, you are implicitly checking out the zone database. Fabric Manager displays the
user name of all users who have checked out a copy of the zone database in the Who has taken a
copy? column of the Zone Administration table.
If the authentication mechanism has changed (from RADIUS to Windows Domain, for example), the
user names displayed in the Who has taken a copy? column might not be accurate.
ATTENTION
Before you edit a zone database, check this column to determine whether other users are modifying
it at the same time, so that your changes do not overlap.
If you have checked out a zone database but are not planning to update it, you can undo the
checkout so that other users can update it without worrying about their changes being overwritten.
When you undo the checkout, the user names of other users who are currently logged in to the
client are also removed. Ensure that those other users are not updating the zone database before
you undo the checkout.
This section contains the following procedures for managing zone databases offline:
• “Editing a zone database offline” on page 226
• “Copying a zone database from one fabric to another” on page 228
• “Comparing two zone databases” on page 229
• “Merging two zone databases” on page 233
• “Exporting a zone database” on page 234
• “Importing a zone database” on page 235
• “Rolling back changes to the zone database on the fabric” on page 235
• “Deleting a zone database from the local repository” on page 235
• “Undoing the automatic checkout of a zone database” on page 236
Editing a zone database offline
1. Select Tasks > Zone Management > Zone Administration.
The Zone Administration module launches, as shown in Figure 146.
2. Select the zone database you want to edit from the table.
If you select a zone database that is on the fabric, the Zone Editor edits a copy of that zone
database and not the actual zone database on the fabric.
3. Click View/Edit Zone DB.
The Zone Editor Tool launches, as shown in Figure 147.