Default Zone; Discard Inactive; Managing Zone Sets; Creating A Zone Set - HP StorageWorks 8/20q User Manual

Default Zone

The Default Zone parameter enables (Allow) or disables (Deny) communication among ports/devices that
are not defined in the active zone set or when there is no active zone set. This parameter must have the
same value throughout the fabric. However, the Default Zone parameter is not automatically distributed
throughout the fabric and must be configured to the same state in every switch in the fabric.

Discard Inactive

The Discard Inactive parameter automatically removes inactive zones and zone sets when a zone set is
activated or deactivated from a remote switch.

Managing zone sets

Zoning a fabric involves creating a zone set, creating zones as zone set members, 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.
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

To create a zone set:
1. Open the Zoning menu and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning dialog box.
2. Open the Edit menu and select Create Zoneset to open the Create Zoneset dialog box.
3. Enter a name for the zone set, and then click OK. The new zone set name is displayed in the Zonesets
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. Choose one of the following options to create new zones in a zone set:
• Right-click a zone set and select Create A Zone from the popup 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
Zonesets dialog box.
• Copy an existing zone by dragging a zone into the new zone set. See
set" (page 44).
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. 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, open the Zoning menu and select Activate Zoneset to open the Activate Zoneset
dialog box. Select a zone set from the Select Zoneset drop-down list, and click Activate.
To deactivate the active zone set, open the Zoning menu, select Deactivate Zoneset. Acknowledge the
warning about traffic disruption, and click Yes to confirm that you want to deactivate the active zone set.
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