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Zone creation and maintenance

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 244 for additional information about this

special type of zone.

Virtual Fabric considerations: Zone definitions should not include logical port numbers. Zoning is

not enforced on logical ports.

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Enter the zoneCreate command, using the following syntax:

zonecreate "zonename", "member[; member...]"

To create a broadcast zone, use the reserved name “broadcast”.

3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.

The cfgSave command ends and commits the current zoning transaction buffer to nonvolatile

memory. If a transaction is open on a different switch in the fabric when this command is run,

the transaction on the other switch is automatically aborted. A message displays on the other

switches to indicate that the transaction was aborted.

Example

switch:admin> zonecreate "greenzone", "2,32; 2,33; 2,34; 4,4"

switch:admin> zonecreate "bluezone", "21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23; 4,3"

switch:admin> zonecreate "broadcast", "1,2; 2,33; 2,34"

switch:admin> cfgsave

You are about to save the Defined zoning configuration. This

action will only save the changes on the Defined configuration.

Any changes made on the Effective configuration will not

take effect until it is re-enabled.

Do you want to save Defined zoning configuration only? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Enter the zoneAdd command, using the following syntax:

zoneadd "zonename", "member[; member...]"