
Q
A – Command Line Interface Zone Command
Zone Command
Manages zones and zone membership on a switch. The Zone command defines members (ports/devices) for a single switch. Zones are members of zone sets.
Authority Admin authority and a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the ”Zoning Command” on page
Syntax zone
add [zone] [members]
copy [zone_source] [zone_destination] create [zone]
delete [zone] list members [zone]
remove [zone] [members] rename [zone_old [zone_new] type [zone] [zone_type] zonesets [zone]
Keywords add [zone] [members]
Specifies one or more ports/devices given by [members] to add to the zone named [zone]. A zone can have a maximum of 256 members. [members] can have one of the following formats:
Domain ID and port number pair (Domain ID, Port Number). Domain IDs and port numbers are in decimal. Ports are numbered beginning with 0.
Alias name
The application verifies that the [members] format is correct, but does not validate that such a port 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
delete [zone]
Deletes the specified zone given by [zone] from the zoning database. If the zone is a member of the active zone set, the zone will not be removed from the active zone set until the active zone set is deactivated.