Command Line Interface

Zone Command

Manages zones and zone membership on a switch.

Authority

Admin and a Zoning Edit. See the “Zoning command” on page 178 for information about starting a Zoning Edit session. The List, Members, and Zonesets keywords are available without an Admin session.

Syntax

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.

DELETE [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.

LIST

Displays a list of all zones and the zone sets of which they are components. This keyword does not require an Admin session.

MEMBERS [zone]

Displays all members of the zone given by [zone]. This keyword does not require an

Admin session.