Troubleshooting Zone Activation Using Fabric Manager - Cisco 9134 - MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 14 Troubleshooting Zones and Zone Sets
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Zone activation can fail if a new switch joins the fabric. When a new switch joins the fabric, it acquires
the existing zone sets. Also, large zone sets may experience timeout errors in Cisco MDS SAN-OS
Release 1.3(4a) and earlier.
When a zone set activation fails, you may see the following system messages:
Error Message ZONE-2-ZS_CHANGE_ACTIVATION_FAILED: Activation failed.
Error Message ZONE-2-ZS_CHANGE_ACTIVATION_FAILED_RESN: Activation failed : reason
[chars].
If this message has the reason "FC2 sequence size exceeded", then the zone database size has been
exceeded. You must simplify the zone configuration, or, if full zone set distribution is enabled, then
disable full zone set distribution and activate the zone set.
Error Message ZONE-2-ZS_CHANGE_ACTIVATION_FAILED_RESN_DOM: Activation failed :
reason [chars] domain [dec].

Troubleshooting Zone Activation Using Fabric Manager

To verify the active zone set and active zones using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Choose Zone > Edit Local Full Zone Database and select the VSAN you are interested in. Click on the
Step 1
active zone set, which is in bold.
Verify that the needed zones are active. If a zone is missing from the active zone set, see the
Step 2
Zone is Not in Active Zone Set Using Fabric Manager" section on page
Click Activate... to activate the zone set.
Step 3
If you are still experiencing zone set activation failure, use the show zone internal change
Step 4
event-history vsan <vsan-id> CLI command to determine the source of zone set activation problem.
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Zone set activation fails.
The zone server cannot activate the zone set.
Explanation
Recommended Action Use the zoneset activate CLI command or similar Fabric Manager procedure
to activate the zone set.
The zone server cannot activate because of reason shown in the error message.
Explanation
No action is required.
Recommended Action
The zone server cannot activate because of reason shown in the error message on the
Explanation
domain.
Recommended Action No action is required.
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