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Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Fabric OS v6.4.0

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Document History
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.0 53-0001536-01 N/A September 1999
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.2 53-0001558-02 N/A May 2000
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.3 53-0000067-02 N/A December 2000
Web Tools User’s Guide v3.0 53-0000130-03 N/A July 2001
Web Tools User’s Guide v2.6 53-0000197-02 N/A December 2001
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.0 / v4.0
53-0000185-02 N/A March 2002
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.0.2
53-0000185-03 N/A September 2002
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v3.1.0
53-0000503-02 N/A April 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.0
53-0000522-02 N/A April 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide v4.1.2
53-0000522-04 Insistent Domain ID Mode.
Port Swapping information. Minor
editorial changes.
October 2003
Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide, v4.2.0
53-0000522-05 Updates to support new switch types:
Brocade 3250, 3850, 24000.
Structural changes, support changes,
installation changes.
December 2003
Advanced Web Tools User’s
Guide
53-0000522-06 Clarifications on software and hardware
support, minor enhancements in
procedure text, minor rearranging of
content.
March 2004
Advanced Web Tools
Administrator’s Guide
53-0000522-07 Updates to support new switch types
(3016, 4100) and Fabric OS v4.4.0,
including Ports on Demand, user
administration, and zoning wizards.
September 2004
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-08 Updates to support new switch types
(200E, 48000) and Fabric OS v5.0.1,
including switchAdmin role, upfront
login, and Web Tools EZ.
April 2005
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-0000522-09 Updates to add additional information
about refresh and polling rates.
July 2005
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-01 Updates to support new switch types
(4900, 7500) and Fabric OS v5.1.0,
including FCR, FCIP, and the FR4-18i
port blade. Web Tools EZ information is
moved to a separate book.
January 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000049-02 Updates to the FCIP chapter to clarify
how to configure tunnels.
April 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000194-01 Updates for Fabric OS v5.2.0 and the
FC4-16IP blade. Also new security for
Web Tools, including Role-Based Access
Control and administrative domains.
September 2006
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000435-01 Updates to reflect interface
enhancements, support for new switch
types, IPv6 support, and other
enhancements.
June 2007

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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-01 Updates to reflect updates to enhanced
Access Gateway support, changes to
FCIP tunneling wizard, and other
enhancements.
October 2007
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1000606-02 Updates for support for new switches,
traffic isolation zoning, F_Port trunking,
removal of enhanced Access Gateway
support, and other enhancements.
March 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001080-01 Updates to add features that require
the Enhanced Group Management
license, removal of features that are
now available from the Brocade Data
Center Fabric Manager (DCFM).
July 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001133-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Encryption Switch and FS8-18
Encryption Blade.
August 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001194-01 Updates to add support for Virtual
Fabrics, IPsec, and consistency with
DCFM.
November 2008
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001343-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
7800 Extension Switch, Brocade 8000,
FCOE10-24 DCX Blade, and FX8-24 DCX
Extension Blade.
July 2009
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 53-1001772-01 Updates to add support for Brocade
Fabric OS 6.4.0.
March 2010
Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Publication Date

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii
Chapter 1 Introducing Web Tools
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools, the EGM license, and DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web Tools features enabled by the EGM license. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Web Tools functionality moved to DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Setting refresh frequency for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Deleting temporary internet files used by Java applications . . . 6
Java installation on the workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing the JRE on your Solaris or Linux client workstation. . . 7
Installing patches on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the Java plug-in on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Java plug-in configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuring the Java plug-in for Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuring the Java plug-in for Mozilla family browsers . . . . . . 8
Value line licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Opening Web Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Session management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ending a Web Tools session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Web Tools system logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Requirements for IPv6 support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2 Using the Web Tools Interface
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Viewing Switch Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Changes for consistency with DCFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Persisting GUI preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Fabric Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Changing the Admin Domain context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Switch View buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Switch Events and Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Free Professional Management tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Displaying tool tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Right-click options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Refresh rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Displaying switches in the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Working with Web Tools: recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening a Telnet or SSH client window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Collecting logs for troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Chapter 3 Managing Fabrics and Switches
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Fabric and switch management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Opening the Switch Administration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Configuring IP and subnet mask information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Configuring Auto Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Configuring a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Removing a syslog IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Blade management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling or disabling a blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Setting a slot-level IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enabling and disabling a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Changing the switch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Changing the switch domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing and printing a switch report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switch restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Performing a fast boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Performing a reboot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
System configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
WWN-based Persistent PID assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring fabric settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Enabling insistent domain ID mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring virtual channel settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Configuring arbitrated loop parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring system services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring signed firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Licensed feature management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Activating a license on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Assigning slots for a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Removing a license from a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Universal time-based licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
High Availability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Launching the High Availability window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Synchronizing services on the CP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Initiating a CP failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Displaying Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Filtering Switch Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Filtering events by event severity levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Filtering events by message ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Filtering events by service component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Displaying the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Printing the Name Server entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Displaying Name Server information for a particular device . . 57
Displaying zone members for a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Physically locating a switch using beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Locating logical switches using chassis beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting a logical switch from the Switch View . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Viewing logical ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Chapter 4 Maintaining Configurations and Firmware
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Creating a configuration backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Restoring a configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Admin Domain configuration maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Uploading and downloading from USB storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Performing a firmware download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
SAS and SA firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Switch configurations for mixed fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Enabling interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 5 Managing Administrative Domains
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Requirements for Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
User-defined Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
System-defined Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Admin Domain membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Opening the Admin Domain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Refreshing Admin Domain information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Saving local Admin Domain changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Closing the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Creating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Adding ports or switches to the fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Activating or deactivating an Admin Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Modifying Admin Domain members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Renaming Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Deleting Admin Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Clearing the Admin Domain configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 6 Managing Ports
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Port management overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Opening the Port Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Port Administration window components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Controllable ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Configuring FC ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Allowed port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Long distance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Ingress rate limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
FC Fastwrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Assigning a name to a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Port beaconing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Enabling and disabling a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Considerations for enabling or disabling a port?. . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Persistent enabling and disabling ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Enabling and disabling NPIV ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Enabling Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Enabling Dynamic Ports on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Disabling Dynamic Ports on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Reserving and releasing licenses on a port basis. . . . . . . . . . . 95
Port swapping index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Port swapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Determining if a port index was swapped
with another switch port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Configuring BB credits on an F_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 7 Enabling ISL Trunking
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
ISL Trunking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Disabling or enabling ISL Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Viewing trunk group information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Creating and maintaining F_Port trunk groups . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Chapter 8 Monitoring Performance
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Performance Monitor overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Basic monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Advanced monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Performance graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Admin Domain considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Predefined performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
User-defined graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Canvas configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Opening the Performance Monitoring window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Creating basic performance monitor graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Customizing basic monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Advanced performance monitoring graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Creating SID-DID Performance graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Creating the SCSI vs. IP Traffic graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Creating SCSI command graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Tunnel and TCP performance monitoring graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Tunnel and TCP graph chart properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Saving graphs to a canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Adding graphs to an existing canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

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Printing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Modifying graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Chapter 9 Administering Zoning
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Basic zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Traffic Isolation zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
LSAN zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
QoS zone requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Setting the default zoning mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Refreshing fabric information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Refreshing Zone Administration window information . . . . . . .124
Saving local zoning changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Selecting a zoning view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Creating and populating zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Adding and removing members of a zone alias. . . . . . . . . . . .126
Renaming zone aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Deleting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Creating and populating zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Adding and removing members of a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Renaming zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Cloning zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Deleting zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Creating and populating enhanced traffic isolation zones . . .130
Zone configuration and zoning database management . . . . . . . .131
Creating zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Adding or removing zone configuration members. . . . . . . . . .132
Renaming zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Cloning zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Deleting zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Enabling zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Disabling zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Displaying enabled zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Viewing the enabled zone configuration name without
opening the Zone Administration window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Viewing detailed information about the enabled
zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Adding a WWN to multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Removing a WWN from multiple aliases and zones . . . . . . . .136
Replacing a WWN in multiple aliases and zones. . . . . . . . . . .137
Searching for zone members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Clearing the zoning database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Zone configuration analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Best practices for zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138