From the Details page of a fabric, you can open the Zone Sets page to view information about the zone sets on the fabric, and to identify which is the active zone set. You can enable automatic zoning in the GUI. Traditionally, each switch and all the ports in the switch act as a single Fibre Channel (FC) switch that participates in a single fabric. Each of these fabric elements is referred to as a logical. Standard zoning enables you to partition a storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices that can access each other. For example, you can partition a SAN into two zones, winzone and unixzone, so that the Windows servers and storage do not interact with the UNIX servers and storage. There are two types of zoning: WWPN Zoning and Switch-Port Zoning WWPN zoning is also called "soft" zoning and is based off the WWPN that is assigned to a specific port on a fibre-channel adapter. The WWPN serves a similar function as a MAC address does on an ethernet adapter. WWPN-based zoning. Director has more resources to handle zoning changes and implementations. If the joining switch has no online locally attached devices, the defzone policy of. Using a serial cable to connect into the serial IOIOI port on the front of the unit, or telnet to the default IP address of 10. Open Putty in this case from COM port 5 serial with the default settings shown below and connect: Press Enter and the login box will appear, login. You can monitor switches and fabrics in the IBM Spectrum Control GUI.