User's Manual

B – Command Line Interface
Zone Command
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Zone Command
Manages zones and zone membership on a switch.
Authority Admin session and a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the ”Zoning Command” on
page B-96 for information about starting a Zoning Edit session. The List,
Members, and Zonesets keywords are available without an Admin session.
Syntax zone
add [zone] [member_list]
copy [zone_source] [zone_destination]
create [zone]
del
ete [zone]
list
members [zone]
remove [zone] [member_list]
rename [zone_old [zone_new]
type [zone] [zone_type]
zonesets [zone]
Keywords add [zone] [member_list]
Specifies one or more ports/devices given by [members] to add to the zone
named [zone]. Use a <space> to delimit aliases and ports/devices in
[member_list]. A zone can have a maximum of 2000 members. [member_list] can
have any of the following formats:
 Domain ID and port number pair (Domain ID, Port Number). Domain IDs can
be 1–-239; port numbers can be 0–-255.
 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 [members] format is correct, but does not validate
that such a member 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 1000 zones.
del
ete [zone]
Deletes the specified zone given by [zone] from the zoning database. If the zone
is a component of the active zone set, the zone will not be removed from the
active zone set until the active zone set is deactivated.