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316 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Zone creation and maintenance
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Zone creation and maintenance
Fabric OS allows you to create zones to better manage devices.
Notes
• Broadcast Zone: To create a broadcast zone, use the reserved name “broadcast”. Do not give a
regular zone the name of “broadcast”.
See “Broadcast zones” on page 310 for additional information about this special type of zone.
• Virtual Fabrics considerations: Zone definitions should not include logical port numbers.
Zoning is not enforced on logical ports.
Displaying existing zones
Use the following procedure to display a list of existing zones:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the cfgShow command.
Example Displaying existing zones
switch:admin> cfgshow
Defined configuration:
zone: matt 30:06:00:07:1e:a2:10:20; 3,2
alias: bawn 3,5; 4,8
alias: bolt 10:00:00:02:1f:02:00:01
alias: bond 10:00:05:1e:a9:20:00:01; 3,5
alias: brain 11,4; 22,1; 33,6
alias: jake 4,7; 8,9; 14,11
alias: jeff 30:00:00:05:1e:a1:cd:02; 40:00:00:05:1e:a1:cd:04
alias: jones 7,3; 4,5
alias: zeus 4,7; 6,8; 9,2
Effective configuration:
No Effective configuration: (No Access)
Creating a zone
ATTENTION
This command will add all zone member aliases that match the “aliasname_pattern” in the zone
database to the new zone.
Use the following procedure to create a zone:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the zoneCreate command, using either of the following syntaxes:
zonecreate "zonename", "member[; member...]"
zonecreate "zonename", "aliasname_pattern*[;members]"
NOTE
This command supports partial pattern matching (“wildcards”) of zone member aliases.
This allows you to add multiple aliases that match the “aliasname_pattern” in the
command line.