Removing All Zoning Definitions; Managing Zone Sets; Creating A Zone Set - Qlogic SANbox 5800V Series User Manual

3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning

Removing All Zoning Definitions

To clear all zone and zone set definitions from the zoning database, choose one of
the following:
Open the Edit menu and select Clear Zoning. In the Removes All dialog,
click the Yes button to confirm that you want to delete all zones and zone
sets.
Right-click the Zone Sets heading at the top of the Zone Sets tree, and
select Clear Zoning from the popup menu. Click the Yes button to confirm
that you want to delete all zone sets and zones.

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. 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 Set
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, do the following:
1. Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning
dialog.
2. Open the Edit menu, and select Create Zone Set to open the Create Zone
Set dialog.
3. Enter a name for the zone set, and click the OK button. The new zone set
name is displayed in the Zone Sets dialog. 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, choose one of the following:
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