Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000435-01, June 2007)

98 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-1000435-01

Managing zoning with Web Tools

A snapshot is taken of all the zoning configurations at the time you launch the Zone Administration

window; this information is not updated automatically by Web Tools. To update this information, see

“Refreshing Zone Administration window Information” on page 99.

FIGURE 46 Zone Administration window

ATTENTION

Any changes you make in the Zone Administration window are held in a buffered environment and

are not updated in the zoning database until you save the changes. If you close the Zone

Administration window without saving your changes, your changes are lost. To save the buffered

changes you make in the Zone Administration window to the zoning database on the switch, see

“Saving local zoning changes” on page 100.

Note the following:

• “Saving” means updating the zoning database on the switch with the local changes from the

Web Tools buffer.

• “Refreshing” means copying the current state of the zoning database on the switch to the Web

Tools buffer, overwriting its current contents.

In the Zone Administration window, all WWNs also display vendor names. In the Member Selection

List panel (see Figure 46), you can right-click port and device nodes to display which aliases the

port or device is a member of. In addition, you can right-click the device nodes and click View

Device Detail to display detailed information about the selected device.