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B – Command Line Interface
Zone Command
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Zone Command
Manages zones and zone membership on a switch. The Zone command defines
members (ports and devices) for a single switch. Zones are members of zone
sets.
Authority Admin authority within a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the ”Zoning Command” on
page B-75 for information about starting a Zoning Edit session. The List,
Members, and Zonesets keywords are available with User authority and do not
require a Zoning Edit session.
Syntax zone
add [zone] [members]
copy [zone_source] [zone_destination]
create [zone]
del
ete [zone]
list
members [zone]
remove [zone] [members]
rename [zone_old [zone_new]
type [zone] [zone_type]
zonesets [zone]
Keywords add [zone] [members]
Specifies one or more ports given by [members] to add to the zone named [zone].
A zone can have a maximum of 256 members. [members] can have one of the
following formats:
■ Domain ID and port number pair (Domain ID, Port Number). Domain IDs and
port numbers are in decimal. Ports are numbered beginning with 0.
■ 6-character hexadecimal device Fibre Channel address (hex)
■ 16-character hexadecimal worldwide port name (WWPN) with the format
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
■ Alias name
The application verifies that the [zone] format is correct, but does not validate that
such a port exists
copy [zone_source] [zone_destination]
Creates a new zone named [zone_destination] and copies the membership into it
from the zone given by [zone_source].
create [zone]
Creates a zone with the name given by [zone]. An zone name must begin with a
letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, &, _,
and -. The zoning database supports a maximum of 256 zones.