User`s guide

Chapter 3. Implementing the INRANGE FC/9000 Fibre Channel Director 207
When leaving the fabric without any name server zone, the only effective zone is
the all-inclusive hard zone. That means all ports are enabled to communicate
with every other port.
Be aware of this any-to-any connectivity when leaving the fabric unzoned.
Once you have added one name server zone, then the nodes, if they are part of
any zone, have limited access to the name server table.
Name server zone members can communicate with only those nodes that are
part of the same name server zone.
3.3 Management of an INRANGE SAN
To gain access to all the management functions, we logged in to IN-VSN as a
user with admin rights. In the topics that follow, we will explain how to:
򐂰 Set up operational parameters
򐂰 Connecting to an INRANGE fabric
򐂰 Assign names
򐂰 Define zones
򐂰 Cascade directors and merge fabrics
3.3.1 Setting up operational parameters
In this topic we describe the parameter setup which can be performed without
having any directors known to the IN-VSN software:
򐂰 Manual database backup
򐂰 Automatic database backup
򐂰 Call Home and Page Home settings (CE’s responsibility)
Database backup
INRANGE provides the ability to backup all director related data to an external
disk. This is called database backup. You can use this backup to restore your
configuration data. Database backup settings are performed using the IN-VSN
server.