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

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Secure fabric merge

Fabric Manager provides a wizard to help you merge secure fabrics that are not physically

connected. This wizard performs a compatibility check that identifies non-compatible parameters

and enables you to create security policies for the merged fabric.

Before launching the wizard, you first select the secondary fabric that you want to merge into a

primary fabric. You select the primary fabric within the wizard.

If the fabric you selected as the secondary fabric has a Change Management configuration or is

part of a Performance Monitoring configuration, this configuration and data in the secondary fabric

is lost after the merge. The primary fabric, however, preserves all Change Management and

Performance Monitoring configurations.

After successfully completing the Merge Secure Fabrics wizard, you can connect the two fabrics

physically.

Merging secure fabrics

1. In the Information panel, select the secure fabric that you want to merge into a primary secure

fabric.

This fabric is the secondary fabric.

2. Right-click on this fabric in the Information panel and choose Security > Merge with Secure

Fabric from the context menu.

If Fabric Manager detects Change Management or Performance Monitoring configurations in

the secondary fabric, a confirmation message asks whether you want to continue with the

merge.

The Merge Secure Fabrics wizard displays, as shown in Figure 166.

FIGURE 166 Merge Secure Fabric wizard