Q-Logic 59022-11 A 4-13 Manuel D’Utilisation

3 – Managing Fabrics

Zoning a Fabric

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The Edit Zoning dialog has a Zone Sets tree on the left and a Port/Device (or 
members) tree on the right. Both trees use display conventions similar to the 
fabric tree for expanding and contracting zone sets, zones, and ports. An 
expanded port shows the port Fibre Channel address; an expanded address 
shows the port World Wide Name. You can select zone sets, zones, and ports in 
the following ways:

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Click a zone, zone set, or port icon.

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Right-click to select a zone set or zone, and open the corresponding popup 
menu.

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Hold down the Shift key while clicking several consecutive icons.

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Hold down the Control key while clicking several non-consecutive icons.

Using tool bar buttons, popup menus, or a drag-and-drop method, you can create 
and manage zone sets and zones in the zoning database. 

 describes the 

zoning tool bar operations.

Use the Edit Zoning dialog to define zoning changes, and click the Apply button 
to open the Error Check dialog. Click the Error Check button to have SANsurfer 
Switch Manager check for zoning conflicts, such as empty zones, aliases, or zone 
sets, and ACL zones with non-domain ID/port number membership. Click the 
Save Zoning button to implement the changes. Click the Close button to close 
the Error Check dialog. On the Edit Zoning dialog, click the Close button to close 
the Edit Zoning dialog.

Create Zone Set button - create a new zone set

Create Zone button - create a new zone

Create Alias button - create another name for a set of objects

Add Member button - adds selected port/device to a zone

Remove Member button - delete the selected zone from a zone 
set, or delete the selected port/device from a zone