Chapter 1. IBM Flex System FC3171 8 Gb SAN Switch - QLogic

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 known as the active zone set.
You cannot edit an active zone set on a switch. 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. Only one zone set can be active at one time.
Notes:
If the Merge Auto Save parameter is enabled on the Zoning Configuration dialog,
then every time the active zone set changes, the switch will copy it into an inactive
zone set stored on the switch. You can edit this copy of the active zone set stored on
the switch, and activate the updated copy to conveniently apply the changes to the
active zone set. The edited copy then becomes the active zone set.
The Edit Zoning dialog has a Zone Sets tree on the left and a Port/Device (or
members) tree on the right. Both trees use display conventions similar to 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 the following ways:
• Click a zone, zone set, or port icon.
• Right-click to select a zone set or zone, and open the corresponding popup
menu.
• Press the Shift key while clicking several consecutive icons.
• Press the Control key while clicking several non-consecutive icons.
Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or a drag-and-drop method, you can create
and manage zone sets and zones in the zoning database. Table 6 describes the
zoning tool bar operations.
Use the Edit Zoning dialog to define zoning changes, and click the Apply button to
open the Error Check dialog. Click the Error Check button to have QuickTools
check for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone sets, and zones with
non-domain ID/port number membership. Click the Save Zoning button to
implement the changes. Click the Close button to close the Error Check dialog. On
the Edit Zoning dialog, click the Close button to close the Edit Zoning dialog.
Table 6. Edit Zoning dialog tool bar buttons and icons
Button/Icon
Description
Create Zone Set button. This button creates a new zone set.
Create Zone button. This button creates a new zone.
Create Alias button. This button creates another name for a set of
objects.
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