HP H-series Enterprise Fabric Management Suite Software - Manual (Page 58)

58 Managing Fabric Zoning
Activating and deactivating a zone set
You must activate a zone set to apply its zoning definitions to the fabric. When you activate a zone set, the
switch distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning database on every switch in the fabric. Only one
zone set can be active at one time.
The purpose of the deactivate function is to suspend all fabric zoning, which results in free communication
fabric-wide (when Default Zone is set to Allow) or no communication (when Default Zone is set to Deny). It
is not necessary to deactivate the active zone set before activating a new one.
To activate a zone set:
1. Select a switch or stack in the fabric tree.
2. Select Zoning > Activate Zoneset to open the Activate Zoneset dialog box.
3. If you selected a stack and the zoning database is not identical on all switches in the stack, choose a
switch from the Select Source Switch list. Changes that you make to this switch are distributed to the
other switches in the stack.
4. If the current active zone set contains TR mappings, click Yes to acknowledge the warning about
re-mapping devices if they are not included in zone sets that will be activated later.
5. Select a zone set from the Select Zoneset drop-down list, and click Activate.
To deactivate the active zone set:
1. Select a switch or stack in the fabric tree.
2. Select Zoning > Deactivate Zoneset.
3. If the current active zone set contains TR mappings, click Yes to acknowledge the warning about
re-mapping devices if they are not included in zone sets that will be activated later.
4. Click Yes to acknowledge the warning about traffic disruption and confirm that you want to deactivate
the active zone set.
Renaming a zone set
To rename a zone set:
1. Select a switch or stack in the fabric tree.
2. Select Zoning > Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning window.
3. If you selected a stack and the zoning database is not identical on all switches in the stack, choose a
switch from the Select Source Switch list. Changes that you make to this switch are distributed to the
other switches in the stack.
4. In the zone set tree of the Edit Zoning dialog box, click the zone set to be renamed, and select
Edit > Rename to open the Rename Zoneset dialog box.
5. Enter a new name for the zone set, and click OK.
6. Click Apply to open the Save Zoning and Error Check dialog box, which presents the following
options:
• Perform Error Check checks for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone sets. This
option is recommended before saving. If errors are found, click Close and correct the errors.
• Save Zoning save the changes to the zoning database with an option to activate a zone set. The
Zone set activation dialog box prompts you to activate a zone set. Click Yes to select and activate a
zone set; click No to save the changes without activating a zone set.
• Close cancels the Apply operation without saving the changes.
7. Click Close to close the Save Zoning and Error Check dialog box.
8. Click Close to close the Edit Zoning dialog box.