User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- Using McDATA Web Server/Element Manager
- Managing Fabrics
- Securing a fabric
- Security consistency checklist
- Connection security
- User account security
- Remote authentication
- Device security
- Edit Security dialog
- Create Security Set dialog
- Create Security Group dialog
- Create Security Group Member dialog
- Editing the security configuration on a switch
- Viewing properties of a security set, group, or member
- Security Config dialog
- Archiving a security configuration to a file
- Activating a security set
- Deactivating a security set
- Configured Security data window
- Active Security data window
- Fabric services
- Rediscovering a fabric
- Displaying the event browser
- Working with device information and nicknames
- Zoning a fabric
- Zoning concepts
- Managing the zoning database
- Managing the active zone set
- Managing zones
- Merging fabrics and zoning
- Securing a fabric
- Managing switches
- Managing user accounts
- Configuring RADIUS servers
- Displaying switch information
- Configuring port threshold alarms
- Paging a switch
- Setting the date/time and enabling NTP client
- Resetting a switch
- Configuring a switch
- Archiving a switch
- Switch binding
- Restoring a switch
- Restoring the factory default configuration
- Downloading a support file
- Installing Product Feature Enablement keys
- Installing firmware
- Displaying hardware status
- Managing ports
- Glossary
- Index
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Zone sets
A zone set is a named group of zones. A zone can be a member of more than one zone set. Each switch
in the fabric maintains its own zoning database containing the active zone set. This zoning database
resides in non-volatile or permanent memory and is therefore retained after a reset. See ”Displaying the
configured and active zone sets” on page 44 for information about displaying the zoning database. The
orphan zone set is created automatically to hold the zones that are not in any set. The orphan zone set
cannot be removed and is not saved on the switch.
To apply zoning to a fabric, create a zone set and activate it. When you activate a zone set, the switch
distributes that zone set and its zones to every switch in the fabric. This zone set is known as the active
zone set.
Zoning database
Each switch has its own zoning database. The zoning database is made up of the active zone set that has
been created on the switch or received from other switches. The switch maintains two copies of the zoning
database: one copy is maintained in temporary memory for editing purposes; the second copy is
maintained in permanent memory. Zoning database edits are made on an individual switch basis and are
not propagated to other switches in the fabric when saved. When a zone set is activated, it is propagated
and saved to temporary memory in each switch in the fabric. If the Interop Auto Save parameter is enabled
in the Zoning Config dialog, the zone set is saved to permanent memory on that switch.
NOTE: If the Interop Auto Save parameter is enabled on the Zoning Configuration dialog, then every time
the active zone set changes, the switch will copy it into an inactive zone set stored on the switch. You can
edit this copy of the active zone set stored on the switch, and activate the updated copy to conveniently
apply the changes to the active zone set. The edited copy then becomes the active zone set.
The Interop Auto Save parameter determines whether changes to the active zone set that a switch receives
from another switch in the fabric will be saved to permanent memory on that switch. See ”Configuring the
zoning database” on page 42 for information about zoning configuration.