Chapter 9 Zone Issues; In This Chapter; Overview Of Corrective Action; Verifying A Fabric Merge Problem - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Troubleshooting And Diagnostics Manual

Zone Issues

In this chapter

Overview of corrective action

The following overview provides a basic starting point for you to troubleshoot your zoning problem.
1. Verify that you have a zone problem.
2. Determine the nature of the zone conflict.
3. Take the appropriate steps to correct zone conflict.
To correct a merge conflict without disrupting the fabric, first verify that it was a fabric merge
problem, then edit zone configuration members, and then reorder the zone member list if
necessary.
The newly changed zone configuration will not be effective until you issue the cfgEnable command.
This should be done during a maintenance window because this may cause disruption in large
fabrics.

Verifying a fabric merge problem

1. Enter the switchShow command to validate that the segmentation is because of a zone issue.
2. Review

Verifying a TI zone problem

Use the zone
following information for each zone:
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"Segmented fabrics,"
determine what might be causing the conflict.
show command to display information about TI zones. This command displays the
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zone name
E_Port members
N_Port members
configured status (the latest status, which may or may not have been activated by cfgEnable)
enabled status (the status that has been activated by cfgEnable)
next, to view the different types of zone discrepancies and
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