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13 – Command Reference
Group
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copy [group_source] [group_destination]
Creates a new group named [group_destination] and copies the membership into
it from the group given by [group_source].
create [group] [type]
Creates a group with the name given by [group] with the type given by [type]. A
group name must begin with a letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid
characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, $, ^, and -. The security database supports a
maximum of 16 groups. If you omit [type], ISL is used. [type] can be one of the
following:
isl
Configures security for attachments to other switches.
Port
Configures security for attachments to N_Port devices.
ms
Configures security for attachments to N_Port devices that are issuing
management server commands.
Table 13-3. MS Group Member Attributes
Attribute Description
Member Port worldwide name for the N_Port device that would attach to
the switch.
CTAuthentication Common Transport (CT) authentication. Enables (True) or dis-
ables (False) authentication for MS group members. The default
is False.
Hash The hash function to use to decipher the encrypted Secret sent
by the MS group member. Hash values are MD5 or SHA-1.
Secret Hexadecimal string that is encrypted by the Hash function for
authentication with MS group members. The string has the fol-
lowing lengths depending on the Hash function:
 MD5 hash: 16-byte
 SHA-1 hash: 20-byte