ZONE SET ACTIVATION HISTORY / VIEWING REPORTS

ok with command line ?

sh accounting log

which report exactly display information about zone changes ?

Yes you can, please follow this link for detailed explanation.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/4_1/configuration/guides/fm_4_1/wc.html

Got to

Viewing Custom Reports by Template

Dynamox:

The icon marked in RED gives me all the historic details that has occured related to the zoning.

sure it does, here is me deleting zones and aliases:

Fri Aug 17 14:06:31 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Alias Alias120 is removed on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:07:35 2012:start:192.168.23.45@pts/17:admin:

Fri Aug 17 14:10:33 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Alias vmdev01-h0 is removed on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:10:43 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Alias vmdev02-h0 is removed on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:12:43 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Zone oracle-h0-VMAX-f05g0 is removed on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:12:43 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Zone oracle-h0-VMAX-f08e0 is removed on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:12:55 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Activation of zoneset ZonesetA attempted on VSAN 114

Fri Aug 17 14:12:58 2012:update:snmp_55835_192.168.23.45:admin:Performing configuration copy.

i don't see a single report that would generate this type of information. Health, inventory, performance - yes

that information should be logged by default, i did not enable anything special. Have you made zone changes recently and you don't see them in the output of that command ?

Ravi:

Thanks for writing back.The link what you have sent to me is useful. But, looks like it is for the Fabric Manager Web Client. It looks very much different to the Fabric Manager Software installed on our Server here.

I was asking ravi about templates in Cisco Web client. Look at the command i provided, it will show you exactly what's going on ..no pretty GUI though.

Dynamox:

Thanks for the CLI command that I wasnt familiar with. I can make good use of it. Although - this accounting log has information only about the staet of the ports and other information. I do not see any zoing information in the output.

I dont see anything about Zone Addition and Deletion in the accounting log output, Dynamox. I think I need to dig out information on how to collect this information. May be we can turn on and shut off specific pieces of information in the log? Just guessing.... thanks for your inputs to both of you - Ravi and Dynamox.

yes thats corrent from the command you provided gives the complete history. But Kennedy was asking some thing similar feature in fabric manager, which is why i referred him to that link. Also if you can click on the custom under reports and select what ever the infonrmation you want in that report and fabric manager will generate it for you.

Command given by Dynamox should get you the details like added member, removed member and zoneset activation time and user who performed it. We are using DCNM (formerly CFM) but I do not think we have that facility in it.

If you find one, please let us know :-)

Thanks