HP StorageWorks XPath OS 7.4.X Command Reference Guide (AA-RVHCC-TE, September 2005)

16 XPath OS CLI commands
Creates an alias.
Synopsis
alicreate “aliName“, “aliMemberList“
Availability
admin
Description
Use this command to create a new alias, aliName, which must be unique among all other alias or zone
object names. The aliMemberList operand is one or more semicolon-separated WWNs, domain,port
pairs, or iSCSI qualified names (IQNs).
An alias name is one letter followed by any combination and number of letters, digits, and underscore
characters. Names are case sensitive: for example, Alias_1 and alias_1 are different aliases. Spaces are
ignored.
The zone alias member list must have at least one member. Each member is described by a
semicolon-separated list of member definitions. The alias member list cannot contain another zone alias.
WWNs are specified as eight hexadecimal numbers separated by colons, for example,
10:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a. Zoning has no knowledge of the fields within a WWN: The 8 bytes are
simply compared with the node and port names presented by a device in a login frame—fabric login
(FLOGI) or port login (PLOGI). When an alias member is specified by node name, all ports on that device
are in the zone. When an alias member is specified by port name, only that single device port is in the
zone.
Physical fabric port numbers can also be specified as a pair of decimal numbers, d,p, where d is the MP
Router number (domain ID) and p is the port number on that MP Router. For example, “6,10“ specifies
port 10 on MP Router number 6. When an alias member is specified by physical fabric port number, then
all devices connected to that port are in the zone. No spaces are allowed.
iSCSI qualified names (IQNs) are specified as iqn.year-month.unique_iSCSI_domain_ID; for
example:
iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:rst-win2k-pc12
iqn.2002-12.com.hp:22000004efd712ea
NOTE: This command changes the defined configuration (see cfgShow). For the change to become
effective, you must enable an appropriate zone configuration using the cfgEnable command.
For the change to be preserved across MP Router reboots, save to nonvolatile memory using the cfgSave
command.
Operands
The following operands are required:
aliCreate
“aliName“ A name for the alias, in quotation marks.
“aliMemberList“ A semicolon-separated list of members, in quotation marks.