Deleting Zone Aliases; Creating And Populating Zones - Brocade Communications Systems SN3000B Administrator's Manual

4. Enter a new alias name and click OK.
5. Select Zoning Actions > Save Config to save the configuration changes.

Deleting zone aliases

You can remove a zone alias from the Zone Admin buffer. When a zone alias is deleted, it is no
longer a member of the zones of which it was once a member.
NOTE
If you delete the only member zone alias, an error message is issued when you attempt to save the
configuration.
To delete the zone aliases, perform the following steps.
1. Open the Zone Admin window as described in
2. Select the Alias tab.
3. Select the alias you want to delete from the Name list. and click Delete.
4. Click Yes.
5. Select Zoning Action > Save Config to save the configuration changes.

Creating and populating zones

A zone is a region within the fabric where specified switches and devices can communicate. A
device can communicate only with other devices connected to the fabric within its specified zone.
To create a zone, perform the following steps.
1. Open the Zone Admin window as described in
2. Select a format to display zoning members in the Member Selection List as described in
3. Select the Zone tab.
4. Click New Zone.
5. In the Create New Zone dialog box, enter a name for the new zone, and click OK.
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The alias is renamed in the Zone Admin buffer. At this point, you can either save your changes
or save and enable your changes.
The Confirm Deleting Alias dialog box displays.
The selected alias is deleted from the Zone Admin buffer. At this point, you can either save your
changes or save and enable your changes.
To enable the configuration, refer to
"Selecting a zoning view"
The Create New Zone dialog box displays.
LSAN zones and QoS zones have specific naming requirements:
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For LSAN zones, refer to
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For QoS zones, refer to
The new zone displays in the Name list.
"Opening the Zone Admin window"
"Enabling zone configurations"
"Opening the Zone Admin window"
on page 123.
"LSAN zone requirements"
"QoS zone requirements"
Zoning management
on page 131.
on page 118.
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