Managing Zoning Offline - Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Administrator's Manual

15

Managing Zoning Offline

Managing Zoning Offline
Every monitored fabric has a zone database associated with it. For fabrics with Admin Domains, every
Admin Domain has a zone database associated with it. This zone database contains zone aliases, zones,
and zone configurations. If no zone aliases, zones, or zone configurations are defined, the zone database
is empty.
A fabric or Admin Domain can have only one active zone database associated with it.
Fabric Manager has a zone database repository, in which it stores a copy of each active zone database.
Fabric Manager stores non-active zone databases in the zone database repository, as well.
You can view the zone database repository by clicking Tasks > Zone Management > Zone
Administration and launching the Zone Administration module, shown in
Figure 15-1 Zone Administration Module
The Zone Administration module displays the zone databases grouped by fabric and, within each fabric,
by Admin Domain.
The active zone databases do not have a name. They are denoted by Zone DB (not named) in the Zone
Database Name column. Active zone databases are displayed, even if they are empty.
The non-active zone databases have names so that you can identify them in the repository. These names
are user-defined and must be unique within the fabric or Admin Domain in which they are located.
Note that the Zone Administration module does not automatically refresh. To view updated information,
you must close and relaunch the module.
15-2
Figure 15-1.
Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP