HP StorageWorks 1606 Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-100134 - Page 172

9 Zoning management Refreshing Zone Administration window information The information displayed in the Zone Administration window is initially a snapshot of the contents of the fabric zoning database at the time the window is launched. Any changes you make to this window are saved to a local buffer; but they are not applied to the fabric zoning database until you invoke one of the transactional operations listed in the Zoning Actions menu. Any local zoning changes are buffered by the Zone Administration window until explicitly saved to the fabric. If the fabric zoning database is independently changed by another user or from another interface (for example, the CLI) while Web Tools zoning changes are still pending, the refresh icon starts to blink (after a 15-30 second polling delay). You can then choose to refresh the current Web Tools zoning view to reflect the new, externally changed contents of the fabric zoning database, in which case any pending local changes are lost, or you can ignore the blinking refresh icon and save your local changes, overwriting the external changes that triggered the icon to blink. You can refresh zoning to back out current, unsaved work and start over. You can refresh the zoning information at any time, either using the refresh icon (whether it is flashing or not) or from the View menu. The following procedure updates the information in the Zone Administration window with the information saved in the zoning database on the switch. ATTENTION When you refresh the buffered information in the Zone Administration window, any zoning configuration changes you made and not yet saved are erased from the buffer and replaced with the currently enabled zone configuration information that is saved on the switch. 1. Launch the Zone Administration window as described on page 137. 2. Click View > Refresh Zoning or click Refresh. This redisplays the information in the Zone Administration window with the information in the switch's zoning database. This action also refreshes the fabric information as described in "Refreshing fabric information" on page 139. Any unsaved zoning changes are deleted. Saving local zoning changes All information displayed and all changes made in the Zone Administration window are buffered until you save the changes. In that case any other user looking at the zone information for the switch will not see the changes you have made until you save them. Saving the changes propagates any changes made in the Zone Administration window (buffered changes) to the zoning database on the switch. If another user has a zoning operation in progress at the time that you attempt to save changes, a warning is displayed that indicates that another zoning transaction is in progress on the fabric. You can select to abort the other transaction and override it with yours. If the zoning database size exceeds the maximum allowed, you cannot save the changes. The zoning database summary displays the maximum zoning database size. This action updates the entire contents of the Zone Administration window, not just the selected zone, alias, or configuration. You can save your changes at any time during the Zone Administration session. 140 Web Tools Administrator's Guide 53-1001343-01