Sun Microsystems 5602 User Manual

3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric

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To create new zones in a zone set, do one of the following:
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Right-click a zone set and select Create A Zone from the popup menu. 
In the Create a Zone dialog, enter a name for the new zone, and click 
the OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the Zone Sets 
dialog.

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Select a zone set in the zone sets tree, and click the Zone button in the 
Zoning toolbar. In the Create a Zone dialog, enter a name for the new 
zone, and click the OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the 
Zone Sets dialog.

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Copy an existing zone by dragging a zone into the new zone set. Refer 
to 

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Click the Apply button to save changes to the zoning database.

You must activate a zone set to apply its zoning definitions to the fabric. Only one 
zone set can be active at one time. When you activate a zone set, the switch 
distributes that zone set to the temporary zoning database on every switch in the 
fabric. 

The purpose of the deactivate function is to suspend all fabric zoning which 
results in free communication fabric wide or no communication depending on the 
default visibility setting. Refer to 

information. It is not necessary to deactivate the active zone set before activating 
a new one. 

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To activate a zone set, open the Zoning menu and select Activate Zone Set 
to open the Activate Zone Set dialog. Select a zone set from the Select Zone 
Set pull-down menu, and click the Activate button.

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To deactivate the active zone set, open the Zoning menu, select Deactivate 
Zone Set. Acknowledge the warning about traffic disruption, and click the 
Yes button to confirm that you want to deactivate the active zone set.

To copy an existing zone and its membership from one zone set to another, select 
the zone and drag it to the chosen zone set. Click the Apply button to save 
changes to the zoning database.