Deactivating A Zone Set And Restarting The Zone Merge Process Using Fabric Manager; Deactivating A Zone Set And Restarting The Zone Merge Process Using The Cli - Cisco 9134 - MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch Troubleshooting Manual

Zone Merge Failure
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Deactivating a Zone Set and Restarting the Zone Merge Process Using Fabric Manager

To deactivate a zone set and restart the zone merge process using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Choose Zone > Deactivate Zone Set to deactivate the zone set configuration.
Caution
Choose Interfaces > FC Physical and select down from the Status Admin drop-down menu to shut
Step 2
down the connection to the zone to be merged. You may see the following system messages:
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_DOWN_CHANNEL_ADMIN_DOWN: Interface fc1/14 is down
(Channel admin down)
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_DOWN_CHANNEL_ADMIN_DOWN: Interface fc1/15 is down
(Channel admin down)
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_DOWN_CHANNEL_ADMIN_DOWN: Interface fc1/16 is down
(Channel admin down)
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_DOWN_PORT_CHANNEL_MEMBERS_DOWN: Interface
port-channel 1 is down (No operational members)
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_DOWN_ADMIN_DOWN: Interface port-channel 1 is down
(Administratively down)
Nov 19 10:26:10 switch4 %LOG_PORT_CHANNEL-5-FOP_CHANGED: port-channel 1: first operational
port changed from fc1/16 to none
Choose Interfaces > FC Physical and select up from the Status Admin drop-down menu to enable the
Step 3
connection to the zone to be merged. You may see the following system messages:
Nov 19 10:28:11 switch4 %LOG_PORT_CHANNEL-5-FOP_CHAN
GED: port-channel 1: first operational port changed from none to fc1/15
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_UP: Interface port-channel 1 is up in mode TE
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/14, vsan 1 is up
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/15, vsan 1 is up
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/16, vsan 1 is up
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/14, vsan 1 is up
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/15, vsan 1 is up
Nov 19 10:28:21 switch4 %LOG_PORT-5-IF_TRUNK_UP: Interface fc1/16, vsan 1 is up
Choose Zone > Edit Local Full Zone Database to verify the active zone set configuration.
Step 4
After deactivating the zone set onthe first switch and performing a shutdown followed by a no shutdown
on the ISL that connects it to the second switch, the zone merge is processed again. Because the first
switch has no active zone set, it learns the active zone set from the second switch during the zone merge
process.

Deactivating a Zone Set and Restarting the Zone Merge Process Using the CLI

To deactivate a zone set and restart the zone merge process using the CLI, follow these steps:
Use the no zoneset activate name zoneset-name vsan-id command to deactivate the zone set
Step 1
configuration from the switch:
Caution
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
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This will disrupt traffic and cause the MDS 9000 switch to lose connectivity with the network.
This will disrupt traffic and cause the MDS 9000 switch to lose connectivity with the network.
Chapter 14 Troubleshooting Zones and Zone Sets
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