Online Zoning; Accessing Zoning; Zoning Naming Conventions - HP Brocade BladeSystem 4/12 User Manual

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Zoning overview
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Online zoning

Online zoning allows you to do the following:
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Online zoning is supported only in Brocade Native mode (InteropMode 0) and in a mixed Fabric OS
and M-EOS McDATA Fabric Mode (InteropMode 2).

Accessing zoning

Most of the zoning tasks are performed from the Zoning dialog box. You can access the Zoning
dialog box from the main screen of the Management application using any of the following
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Zoning naming conventions

The naming rules for zone names, zone aliases, and zone configuration names vary with the type of
fabric.
The following conventions apply to Fibre Channel fabrics:
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If you enter an invalid zone or zone configuration name, an error or warning message displays
depending on the type of fabric you are trying to zone:
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Traffic Isolation zones (TI zones)
Isolate inter-switch traffic to a specific, dedicated path through the fabric. See
zoning" on page 461 for more information.
View both defined and active zone information in the fabric.
Create and modify zones and zone configurations in the software zone database.
Activate a zone configuration in order to publish the zone information in the selected fabric.
Deactivate the current active zone configuration.
Configure zoning policies in the selected fabric.
Generate zoning reports for the fabric.
Select Configure > Zoning > Fabric.
Click the Zoning icon on the toolbar.
Right-click a port, switch, switch group, or fabric in the device list and select Zoning.
Right-click a port, switch, switch group, or fabric in the Connectivity Map and select Zoning.
Names are case sensitive in McDATA Open Mode. However, names are not case sensitive in
Brocade Native Mode or McDATA Fabric Mode.
Zone, alias, and configuration names cannot begin with "red_", "lsan_red_", or "d__efault__".
Zone configuration names cannot begin with "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg". These prefixes are reserved.
Names cannot begin with a numeric character or a special character.
Recommended character limit: 64 characters.
Duplicate names are not allowed between zones, zone aliases, and zone configurations within
a zone database.
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