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Best practices for zoning
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Clearing the zoning database
Use the following procedure to disable the active zoning configuration, if one exists, and delete the
entire zoning database. You must disable any active configuration before you can delete the zoning
database.
ATTENTION
This action not only disables zoning on the fabric, but also deletes the entire zoning database. This
results in all devices being able to communicate with each other.
To clear the zone database, perform the following steps.
1. Open the Zone Administration window as described in “Opening the Zone Admin window” on
page 104.
2. Select Actions > Clear All.
The Disable Config wizard displays.
3. Click Yes to do all of the following in the wizard:
• Disable the current configuration.
• Clear the entire contents of the current Web Tools Zone Admin buffer.
• Delete the entire persistent contents of the fabric zoning database.
The wizard allows you to define one and only one name for each device port (WWN). Devices
with one or more aliases are considered already named and are not displayed.
Zone configuration analysis
You must use Brocade Network Advisor to analyze the following zone configurations:
• Add unzoned devices
• Remove offline or inaccessible devices
• Replace offline devices
• Define device alias
Best practices for zoning
The following are recommendations for using zoning:
• Always zone using the highest Fabric OS-level switch.
Switches with lower Fabric OS versions do not have the capability to view all the functionality
that a newer Fabric OS provides as functionality is backwards compatible but not forwards
compatible.
• Zone using the core switch versus an edge switch.
• Zone using a director over a switch.
A director has more resources to handle zoning changes and implementations.
• Zone on the switch you connect to when bringing up Web Tools (the proxy switch).