HP StorageWorks 2/16V Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-1000019 - Page 234

15 Managing Zoning Offline Managing Zoning Offline Every monitored fabric has a zone database associated with it. For fabrics with Admin Domains, every Admin Domain has a zone database associated with it. This zone database contains zone aliases, zones, and zone configurations. If no zone aliases, zones, or zone configurations are defined, the zone database is empty. A fabric or Admin Domain can have only one active zone database associated with it. Fabric Manager has a zone database repository, in which it stores a copy of each active zone database. Fabric Manager stores non-active zone databases in the zone database repository, as well. You can view the zone database repository by clicking Tasks > Zone Management > Zone Administration and launching the Zone Administration module, shown in Figure 15-1. Figure 15-1 Zone Administration Module The Zone Administration module displays the zone databases grouped by fabric and, within each fabric, by Admin Domain. The active zone databases do not have a name. They are denoted by Zone DB (not named) in the Zone Database Name column. Active zone databases are displayed, even if they are empty. The non-active zone databases have names so that you can identify them in the repository. These names are user-defined and must be unique within the fabric or Admin Domain in which they are located. Note that the Zone Administration module does not automatically refresh. To view updated information, you must close and relaunch the module. 15-2 Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP