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Deleting a Zone Database from the Local Repository
The following procedures describes how to delete a zone database from the local repository.
You cannot delete the zone database that is on the fabric. Every fabric has a zone database associated
with it, even if the zone database is empty.
To delete a zone database from the local repository
1. Click Tasks > Zone Management > Zone Administration from the menu bar.
The Zone Administration module launches, as shown in
2. Select one or more zone databases that are located in the repository. You cannot delete zone
databases that are currently in the fabric.
3. Click Delete Zone DB.
4. Click OK in the confirmation window.
Undoing the Automatic Checkout of a Zone Database
When you edit a zone database, either through the Zone Editor Tool or the Compare/Merge Zone
Database module, you are implicitly checking out the zone database. Fabric Manager displays the user
name of all users who have checked out a copy of the zone database in the Who has taken a copy?
column of the Zone Administration table.
If the authentication mechanism has changed (from RADIUS to Windows Domain, for example), the
user names displayed in the Who has taken a copy? column might not be accurate.
Caution
Before you edit a zone database, check this column to determine whether other users are modifying it at
the same time, so that your changes do not overlap.
If you have checked out a zone database but are not planning to update it, you can undo the checkout so
that other users can update it without worrying about their changes being overwritten.
When you undo the checkout, the user names of other users who are currently logged in to the client are
also removed. Ensure that those other users are not updating the zone database before you undo the
checkout.
To undo the checkout of a zone database
1. Click Tasks > Zone Management > Zone Administration from the menu bar.
The Zone Administration module launches, as shown in
2. Select a zone database that you have checked out (your user name is in the Who has taken a copy?
column).
3. Right-click the zone database and select Undo Zone DB Checkout from the context menu.
4. Click Yes in the confirmation window.
This removes the user names of users currently logged in to the client from the Who has taken a
copy? column for this zone database.
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