Refreshing The Zone Admin Module Information; Refreshing The Local Zone Admin Buffer From The Fabric Zoning Database; Saving Local Zoning Changes - HP StorageWorks 2/64 - Core Switch Administrator's Manual

Refreshing the Zone Admin module information

The information displayed in the Zone Admin module is initially a snapshot of the contents of the fabric
zoning database at the time the module is launched. Any changes you make to this window are saved to
a local buffer; they are not applied to the fabric zoning database until you invoke one of the transactional
operations listed in the Actions menu.
Any local zoning changes are buffered by the Zone Admin module until explicitly saved to the fabric. If
the fabric zoning database is independently changed by another user or from another interface (for
example, the CLI) while Advanced Web Tools zoning changes are still pending, the refresh icon
to blink (after a 15 second polling delay). You can then choose to refresh the current Advanced Web
Tools zoning view to reflect the new, externally changed contents of the fabric zoning database, in which
case any pending local changes are lost, or you can ignore the blinking refresh icon and save your local
changes, overwriting the external changes that triggered the icon to blink.
Another reason to refresh zoning is to back out of current, unsaved work and start over.
You can refresh the zoning information at any time, either using the refresh icon (whether it is flashing or
not) or from the View menu.
The following procedure updates the information in the Zone Admin module with the information saved in
the zoning database on the switch.
CAUTION: When you refresh the buffered information in the Zone Admin module, any zoning
configuration changes you have made and not yet saved are erased from the buffer and replaced with
the currently enabled zone configuration information that is saved on the switch.

Refreshing the local Zone Admin buffer from the fabric zoning database

1. Launch the Zone Admin module as described on
2. Select View > Refresh Zoning or click the zone refresh icon
Zone Admin module).
This refreshes the information in the Zone Admin module with the information in the switch's zoning
database. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in
information" on page 83. Any unsaved zoning changes are deleted.

Saving local zoning changes

All information displayed and all changes made in the Zone Admin module are buffered until you save
the changes. That means that any other user looking at the zone information for the switch does not see
the changes you have made until you save them.
Saving the changes propagates any changes you have made in the Zone Admin module (buffered
changes) to the zoning database on the switch. If another user has a zoning operation in progress at the
time that you attempt to save changes, a warning is displayed that indicates that another zoning
transaction is in progress on the fabric. You can select to abort the other transaction and override it with
yours.
If the zoning database size exceeds the maximum allowed, you cannot save the changes. The zoning
database summary displays the maximum zoning database size (see
summary" on page 96).
This action updates the entire contents of the Zone Admin module, not just the selected zone, alias, or
configuration. You can save your changes at any time during the zone administration session.
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