Refreshing Zone Administration Window Information; Saving Local Zoning Changes - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Zoning management

Refreshing Zone Administration window information

The information displayed in the Zone Administration window is initially a snapshot of the contents
of the fabric zoning database at the time the window is launched. Any changes you make to this
window are saved to a local buffer; but they are not applied to the fabric zoning database until you
invoke one of the transactional operations listed in the Zoning Actions menu.
Any local zoning changes are buffered by the Zone Administration window 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 Web Tools zoning changes are still pending, the refresh icon
starts to blink (after a 15–30 second polling delay). You can then decide to refresh the current 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.
You can refresh zoning 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 Administration window with the
information saved in the zoning database on the switch.
ATTENTION
When you refresh the buffered information in the Zone Administration window, any zoning
configuration changes you 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.
To refresh the Zone Administration window, perform the following steps.
1. Launch the Zone Administration window as described in "Opening the Zone Admin window" on
page 104.
2. Select View > Refresh Zoning or click Refresh.
This re-displays the information in the Zone Administration window with the information in the
switch's zoning database. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in
"Refreshing fabric information" on page 107. Any unsaved zoning changes are deleted.

Saving local zoning changes

All information displayed and all changes made in the Zone Administration window are buffered
until you save the changes. In that case any other user looking at the zone information for the
switch do not see the changes you have made until you save them.
Saving the changes propagates any changes made in the Zone Administration window (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 displays 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.
This action updates the entire contents of the Zone Administration window, 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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