Clearing The Zone Database; Recovering A Full Zone Database; Performing Zone Merge Analysis - Cisco DS-C9216I-K9 Configuration Manual

Chapter 15 Configuring and Managing Zones
From the Fabric Manager, choose Zone > Edit Full Database on Switch. You see the Select VSAN
Step 1
dialog box. Choose the VSAN and click OK.
You can also right-click a VSAN folder in the Logical tab and choose Edit Local Zone Database from
the pop-up menu. You see the Edit VSANxxx Local Full Zones window for the VSAN you selected.
Choose the zone set or member you want to delete.
Step 2
Right-click the object and choose Delete from the pop-up menu. The selected object is deleted from the
Step 3
zone database.

Clearing the Zone Database

Clearing a zone set only erases the full zone database, not the active zone database.

Recovering a Full Zone Database

You can recover a database by copying the active zone database or the full zone database. To recover a
zone database, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Fabric Manager, choose Zone > Recover Full Zone Database. You see the Recover Full Zone
Database dialog box.
Step 2 Click the Copy Active or the Copy Full radio button, depending on which type of database you want to
copy.
Step 3 Choose the source VSAN from which to copy the information from the drop-down list.
Step 4 If you selected Copy Full, choose the source switch and the destination VSAN from those drop-down
lists.
Step 5 Choose the destination switch from the drop-down list.
Click Copy to copy the database, or click Close to close the dialog without copying.
Step 6

Performing Zone Merge Analysis

To perform a zone merge analysis, follow these steps:
From the Fabric Manager, choose Zone > Merge Analysis. You see the Zone Merge Analysis window.
Step 1
Choose the first switch to be analyzed from the Check Switch 1 drop-down list.
Step 2
Choose the second switch to be analyzed from the And Switch 2 drop-down list.
Step 3
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