HP 2/8q Fibre Channel - Manual (Page 52)

Switch Manager
52 HP StorageWorks 2/8q Fibre Channel Switch Management User Guide
Managing zone sets
Zoning a fabric involves creating a zone set, creating zones as zone set members, and then
adding devices as zone members. The zoning database supports multiple zone sets to serve the
different security and access needs of your storage area network, but only one zone set can be
active at one time. Managing zone sets consists of the following tasks:
■ Creating a zone set
■ Activating and deactivating a zone set
■ Copying a zone to a zone set
■ Removing a zone from a zone set or from all zone sets
■ Removing a zone set
■ Removing all zoning definitions
Note: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the managed switch and do
not propagate to the rest of the fabric. To distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide,
you must edit the zoning databases on the individual switches.
Creating a zone set
1. Select Zoning > Edit Zoning. The Edit Zoning dialog box is displayed ( Figure 17 ).
2. Select Edit > Create Zone Set. The Create Zone Set dialog box is displayed.
3. Enter a name for the zone set, and then click OK. The new zone set name is displayed in
the Zone Sets dialog box. A zone set name must begin with a letter and be no longer than
64 characters. Valid characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, -, ^, and $.
4. To create new zones in a zone set, do one of the following:
— Right-click a zone set and then select Create A Zone from the menu. In the Create a
Zone dialog box, enter a name for the new zone, and then click OK. The new zone
name is displayed in the Zone Sets dialog box.
— Copy an existing zone by dragging a zone into the new zone set. See “ Copying a zone
to a zone set ” on page 53.
5. Click Apply to save changes to the zoning database.
Activating and deactivating a zone set
You must activate a zone set to apply its zoning definitions to the fabric. Only one zone set can
be active at one time. When you activate a zone set, the switch distributes that zone set to the
temporary zoning database on every switch in the fabric.
The purpose of the deactivate function is to suspend all fabric zoning, which results in free
communication fabric wide or no communication depending on the default visibility setting.
See “
Default Visibility parameter ” on page 48 for more information. It is not necessary to
deactivate the active zone set before activating a new one.
■ To activate a zone set, select Zoning > Activate Zone Set. The Activate Zone Set dialog
box is displayed. Select a zone set from the Select Zone Set menu, and then click
Activate.
■ To deactivate the active zone set, select Zoning > Deactivate Zone Set. Acknowledge the
warning about traffic disruption, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to deactivate
the active zone set.