Editing Zone Configuration Members; Reordering The Zone Member List; Checking For Fibre Channel Connectivity Problems - Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Troubleshooting Manual

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Zone conflicts
5. Enter the switchEnable command on each switch once the zoning configuration has been

Editing zone configuration members

1. Log in to one of the switches in a segmented fabric as admin.
2. Enter the cfgShow command and print the output.
3. Start another Telnet session and connect to the next fabric as an admin.
4. Enter the cfgShow command and print the output.
5. Compare the two fabric zone configurations line by line and look for an incompatible
6. Connect to one of the fabrics.
7. Run zone configure edit commands to edit the fabric zone configuration for the segmented

Reordering the zone member list

1. Obtain the output from the cfgShow for both switches.
2. Compare the order in which the zone members are listed. Members must be listed in the same
3. Rearrange zone members so the configuration for both switches is the same. Arrange zone

Checking for Fibre Channel connectivity problems

Enter the fcPing command (refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference for more information on
this command), which checks the zoning configuration for the two ports specified by:
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ATTENTION
The cfgClear command clears the zoning database on the switch where the command is run.
cleared.
This forces the zones to merge and populates the switches with the correct zoning database.
The fabrics will then merge.
configuration.
switch (see Table 13 on page 65 for specific commands.
If the zoneset members between two switches are not listed in the same order in both
configurations, the configurations are considered a mismatch; this results in the switches
being segmented in the fabric.
For example:
is different from
[cfg1 = z1; z2]
configuration are the same.
One simple approach to making sure that the zoneset members are in the same order is to
keep the members in alphabetical order.
order.
members in alphabetical order, if possible.
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Generating an ELS (Extended Link Service frame) ECHO request to the source port
specified and validates the response.
even though the members of the
[cfg1 = z2; z1],
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