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3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric
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3.5.8
Managing Aliases
An alias is a collection of objects that can be zoned together. An alias is not a
zone, and can not have a zone or another alias as a member.
3.5.8.1
Creating an Alias
To create an alias, do the following:
1. Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning
window.
2. Open the Edit menu, and select Create Alias to open the Create Alias
window.
3. Enter a name for the alias, and choose the OK button. The alias name is
displayed in the Zone Sets window. An alias name must begin with a letter
and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, &, _,
and -.
4. Choose the OK button to save the alias name to the zoning database.
Note: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the
managed switch and do not propagate to the rest of the fabric. To
distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide, you must edit
the zoning databases on the individual switches.