Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 15-9
Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP
Managing Zoning Offline
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In the Comparison Options section, you can customize the display as follows:
• You can click radio buttons to display the entire zone databases or only the differences between
the two.
• From the Tree Level drop-down menu, you can fully expand the trees by selecting All Levels,
or expand the trees to the zone configuration or zone level by selecting Zone Configs or
Zones, respectively.
• You can click the Previous and Next buttons to navigate through the zone database trees,
highlighting each difference.
• From the Comparison View drop-down menu, click Host-to-Storage Connectivity or
Storage-to-Host Connectivity to display only the host and storage devices in the trees. From
these views you can easily understand the implications of making a change in zoning in terms
of connectivity changes, specifically, which servers lose or gain access to which storage
devices.
Figure 15-5 shows an example of the Host-to-Storage Connectivity view. As shown in the figure, in
RedZoneDB on the right, the host (Intraserver) gains access to one device (shown in green), but
loses access to two devices (shown in red).
Figure 15-5 Host-to-Storage Connectivity View
Figure 15-6 shows an example of the Storage-to-Host Connectivity view. As shown in the figure, in
BrownZoneDB on the right, two of the devices lose access to the host (Intraserver, shown in red).
In this example, the Show Only Changes radio button is selected so that only the differences
between the two databases are shown.