McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Command Line Interface Guide (AA-RWEJA-TE, November 2006)

McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem command line interface guide 67
Managing zones
Managing zones consists of the following tasks:
• Create a zone, page 67
• Delete a zone, page 67
• Rename a zone, page 67
• Copy a zone, page 67
• Add members to a zone, page 67
• Remove members from a zone, page 68
All of these tasks require an Admin session and a Zoning Edit session.
See the ”Zone command” on page 223.
Create a zone
Enter the Zone Create command to create a new zone as shown in the following example:
McDATA4GbSAN #> admin start
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> zoning edit
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zone create zone_1
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
Delete a zone
Enter the Zone Delete command to delete zone_1 from the zoning database as shown in the following
example:
McDATA4GbSAN #> admin start
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> zoning edit
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zone delete zone_1
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
Rename a zone
Enter the Zone Rename command to rename zone_1 to zone_a as shown in the following example:
McDATA4GbSAN #> admin start
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> zoning edit
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zone rename zone_1 zone_a
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
Copy a zone
Enter the Zone Copy command to copy the contents of an existing zone (zone_1) to a new zone (zone_2)
as shown in the following example:
McDATA4GbSAN #> admin start
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> zoning edit
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zone copy zone_1 zone_2
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
Add members to a zone
Enter the Zone Add command to add ports/devices to zone_1 as shown in the following example:
McDATA4GbSAN #> admin start
McDATA4GbSAN (admin) #> zoning edit
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zone add zone_1 1,4 1,5
McDATA4GbSAN (admin-zoning) #> zoning save