beautypg.com

Zone administration, Zone administration -7 – Dell PowerVault 56F (16P Fibre Channel Switch) User Manual

Page 17

background image

support.dell.com

Using the Dell PowerVault Switch Manager

2-7

) *%

The Zone Administration consists of the following functions:

Zone Alias Settings

Zone Settings

Zone Config Settings

NOTE: You should make Zone Administration changes incrementally. Changes to
the zoning information are transferred to the switches only when you click Apply; if
you have made a large number of changes, the fabric can become unusable while the
information is being updated on all the switches in the fabric. Dell recommends that
you click Apply to update the changes frequently when modifying the zoning
information.

Refresh button

Click to refresh on demand

Domain # field

Displays the domain ID of a switch to which each device
is connected

Port # field

Displays the port number of the switch

Port ID field

Displays the port ID of a device (Fibre Channel 24-bit ID
in hexadecimal)

Port Type field

Displays the port type of a device (N for fabric direct
attached port or NL for fabric direct attached loop port)

Port WWN field

Displays the WWN for a device port

Node WWN field

Displays the WWN for a device node

Symbolic Name field

Displays the symbolic name of a device reported by the
SCSI INQUIRY command

FC4 Types field (not
shown in Figure 2-3)

Displays the Fibre Channel FC4 layer types supported
by device, such as IP and FCP

COS field (not shown
in Figure 2-3)

Displays the Fibre Channel classes of service supported
by the device

Member of Zones field
(not shown in
Figure 2-3)

Lists all the zones of which the device is a member

Done button

Click to close the window

!"

This manual is related to the following products: