Sun Microsystems 5602 User Manual

3 – Managing Fabrics

Zoning a Fabric

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When a zone is created, its zone type is soft. To change the zone type to a hard 
zone, refer to 

 for more information. Refer to 

 for information on zone types (soft and hard). To create a 

zone in a zone set, do the following:

1.

Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning 
dialog. 

2.

Select a zone set.

3.

Open the Edit menu and select Create a Zone. 

4.

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. A zone 
name must begin with a letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid 
characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, ^, $, and -.

5.

To add switch ports or attached devices to the zone, do one of the following:
„

In the zone set tree, select the zone set. In the graphic window, select 
the port to add to the zone. Open the Edit menu and select Add 
Members. 

„

Select a port by port number, Fibre Channel address, or World Wide 
Name in the Port/Device tree, and drag it into the zone.

„

Select a port by port number, Fibre Channel address, or World Wide 
Name in the Port/Device tree. Right-click the zone and select Add 
Zone Members from the popup menu.

6.

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

If you enter the name of a zone that already exists in the 
database, the SANsurfer Switch Manager application will ask if 
you would like to add that zone and its membership to the zone 
set.