Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Fabric Manager Software Configuration Guide, NX-OS 4.0 (OL-16598-01, June 2008)

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Chapter 16 Configuring and Managing Zones
Configuring Zones
Configuring Zones
This section describes how to configure zones and includes the following topics:
• About the Zone Configuration Tool, page 16-7
• Configuring Zones Using the Zone Configuration Tool, page 16-8
• Adding Zone Members, page 16-10
• Configuring the Default Zone Policy, page 16-12
About the Zone Configuration Tool
The Zone Configuration tool allows you to zone across multiple switches and all zoning features are
available through the Edit Local Full Zone Database dialog box (see Figure 16-4).
Figure 16-4 Edit Local Full Zone Database Dialog Box
1 You can display information for a specific
VSAN by selecting the VSAN in the
drop-down menu, and then pressing the Enter
key.
3 You can add zoning characteristics based on
the aliases in different folders.
2 You can use the Add to zone button to move
devices up or down by alias or by zone.
4 You can triple-click to rename zone sets,
zones, or aliases in the tree.