HP H-series Enterprise Fabric Management Suite Software - Manual (Page 53)

HP StorageWorks 8/20q and SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch Enterprise Fabric Management Suite User Guide 53
To apply zoning to a fabric, choose a zone set and activate it. When you activate a zone set, the switch
distributes that zone set and its zones, excluding aliases, to every switch in the fabric. This zone set is then
known as the active zone set.
Changes can only be made to inactive zone sets, which are stored in flash (non-volatile) memory and
retained after any switch reset. You must configure an inactive zone set to your needs and then activate that
updated zone set to apply the changes 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. However, in addition to the
merged active zone set, each switch maintains its own original zone set in its zoning database. However,
only one zone set can be active at one time.
NOTE: If the Merge Auto Save parameter is enabled on the Zoning Configuration dialog box, then every
time the active zone set changes, the switch copies it into an inactive zone set stored on the switch. To
conveniently apply the changes to the active zone set, you can edit the copy of the active zone set, and
then activate the updated copy. The edited copy then becomes the active zone set.
The Edit Zoning dialog box has a zone set tree on the left and a Port/Device (or members) tree on the right.
Both trees use display conventions similar to those used by the fabric tree for expanding and contracting
zone sets, zones, and ports. An expanded port shows the port Fibre Channel address; an expanded
address shows the port World Wide Name. You can select zone sets, zones, and ports in any one of the
following ways:
• Click a zone, zone set, or port icon.
• Right-click to select a zone set or zone, and then open the corresponding popup menu.
• Press and hold the Shift key while clicking several consecutive icons.
• Press and hold the Control key while clicking several non-consecutive icons.
Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or the drag-and-drop method, you can create and manage zone sets
and zones in the zoning database. Table 9 describes the zoning tool bar operations.
Table 9 Edit Zoning dialog box tool bar
Button Description
Create Zoneset—Creates a new zone set
Create Zone—Creates a new zone
Create Alias—Creates another name for a set of objects
Add Member—Adds selected port/device to a zone
Remove Member—Deletes the selected zone from a zone set, or deletes the selected
port/device from a zone
Copy—Copies selected zoning items to the clipboard
Paste—Pastes clipboard items in selected zoning item, where applicable