Q-Logic 5600 Manuel D’Utilisation

3 – Managing Fabrics

Zoning a Fabric

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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 

 for more 

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.

You can remove a zone from a zone set or from all zone sets in the database.

1.

In the faceplate display, open the Zoning menu and select Edit Zoning to 
open the Edit Zoning dialog.

2.

In the Zone Sets tree, select the zone(s) to be removed.

3.

Open the Edit menu, and select Remove to remove the zone from the zone 
set, or select Remove from All Zones to remove the zone from all zone 
sets.

4.

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

Alternatively, you may use shortcut menus to remove a zone from a zone set or 
from all zone sets in the database.