Copying Zone Sets; Copying Zone Sets Using Fabric Manager - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring and Managing Zones
• To a remote location (using FTP, SCP, SFTP, or TFTP)
The active zoneset is not part of the full zoneset. You cannot make changes to an existing zoneset and activate
it, if the full zoneset is lost or is not propagated.
Caution
Copying an active zoneset to a full zoneset may overwrite a zone with the same name, if it already exists in
the full zoneset database.

Copying Zone Sets

On the Cisco MDS Series switches, you cannot edit an active zoneset. However, you can copy an active
zoneset to create a new zoneset that you can edit.
Caution If the Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) feature is enabled and if IVR zones exist in the active zoneset, then a zoneset
copy operation copies all the IVR zones to the full zone database. To prevent copying to the IVR zones, you
must explicitly remove them from the full zoneset database before performing the copy operation. For more
information on the IVR feature see the
Guide
To make a copy of a zoneset, follow this step:
Step 1
switch# zone copy active-zoneset full-zoneset vsan 2
Example:
Please enter yes to proceed.(y/n) [n]?
Makes a copy of the active zoneset in VSAN 2 to the full zoneset.
Step 2
switch# zone copy vsan 3 active-zoneset scp://guest@myserver/tmp/active_zoneset.txt
Copies the active zone in VSAN 3 to a remote location using SCP.

Copying Zone Sets Using Fabric Manager

To make a copy of a zone set using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1
Choose Edit > Copy Full Zone Database.
You see the Copy Full Zone Database dialog box (see
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Figure 31: Copy Full Zone Database Dialog Box, on page
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