Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-1000606-01, October 2007)

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Managing zoning with Web Tools
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1. In the Zone Administration window, click View> Refresh From Live Fabric.
This refreshes the status for the fabric, including switches, ports, and devices.
NOTE
Depending on the role associated with your user name or if the switch is owned by the current
Admin Domain you are logged in to, you may not be able to modify zones or ports in other
Admin Domains.
Refreshing Zone Administration window information
The information displayed in the Zone Administration window is initially a snapshot of the contents
of the fabric zoning database at the time the window is launched. Any changes you make to this
window are saved to a local buffer; but they are not applied to the fabric zoning database until you
invoke one of the transactional operations listed in the Zoning Actions menu.
Any local zoning changes are buffered by the Zone Administration window until explicitly saved to
the fabric. If the fabric zoning database is independently changed by another user or from another
interface (for example, the CLI) while Web Tools zoning changes are still pending, the refresh icon
starts to blink (after a 15–30 second polling delay). You can then choose to refresh the current
Web Tools zoning view to reflect the new, externally changed contents of the fabric zoning
database, in which case any pending local changes are lost, or you can ignore the blinking refresh
icon and save your local changes, overwriting the external changes that triggered the icon to blink.
You can refresh zoning to back out current, unsaved work and start over.
You can refresh the zoning information at any time, either using the refresh icon (whether it is
flashing or not) or from the View menu.
The following procedure updates the information in the Zone Administration window with the
information saved in the zoning database on the switch.
ATTENTION
When you refresh the buffered information in the Zone Administration window, any zoning
configuration changes you have made and not yet saved are erased from the buffer and replaced
with the currently enabled zone configuration information that is saved on the switch.
1. Launch the Zone Administration window as described on page 96.
2. Click View> Refresh Zoning or click the Refresh button.
This refreshes the information in the Zone Administration window with the information in the
switch’s zoning database. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in
“Refreshing fabric information” on page 98. Any unsaved zoning changes are deleted.
Saving local zoning changes
All information displayed and all changes made in the Zone Administration window are buffered
until you save the changes. That means that any other user looking at the zone information for the
switch will not see the changes you have made until you save them.