Refreshing A Zone Database; Merging Fabrics - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

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Zoning configuration
2. Select a fabric from the Zoning Scope list.
3. Select the offline zone database you want to delete in the Zone DB list.
4. Select Delete from the Zone DB Operation list.
5. Click Yes on the confirmation message.
6. Click OK to save your work and close the Zoning dialog box.

Refreshing a zone database

1. Select Configure > Zoning > Fabric.
2. Click the Zone DB tab if that tab is not automatically displayed.
3. Select a zone database from the Zone DB list.
4. Select Refresh from the Zone DB Operation list.
5. Click OK.

Merging fabrics

When you merge fabrics, the defined and active zone configurations in both fabrics must match.
1. Compare and merge the two zone databases, and save the database to the offline repository.
2. Ensure that the active zone configurations in each fabric are the same, including the same
3. Load the newly merged zone database from the offline repository.
4. Activate the zone configuration.
5. If the active zone configuration names are the same in each fabric, then load the offline
6. If the active configuration names are different in each fabric, rename the zone configurations
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This identifies the target entity for all subsequent zoning actions and displays the zoning
databases for the selected entity.
NOTE
Only offline databases can be deleted.
The message closes and the selected zone configurations are removed from the Zone
Configurations list.
Any zones or zone configurations you have changed are saved in the zone database.
The Zoning dialog box displays.
A message displays informing you that refresh will overwrite the selected database. Click Yes to
continue.
Any zones or zone configurations you have changed are saved in the zone database.
Refer to "Merging two zone databases"
name.
Refer to "Renaming a zone configuration"
repository, and activate the zone configuration on each fabric.
to be the same, and copy the zones.
on page 735.
on page 731.
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