Q-Logic 59021-05 Manuel D’Utilisation

B – Command Line Interface

Zone Command

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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.

Admin authority and a Zoning Edit session. Refer to the 

 for information about starting a Zoning Edit session. The List, 

Members, and Zonesets keywords are available with User authority and do not 
require a Zoning Edit session.

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]

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:

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Domain ID and port number pair (Domain ID, Port Number). Domain IDs and 
port numbers are in decimal. Ports are numbered beginning with 0.

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6-character hexadecimal device Fibre Channel address (hex)

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16-character hexadecimal worldwide port name (WWPN) with the format 
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.

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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 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 member of the active zone set, the zone will not be removed from the active 
zone set until the active zone set is deactivated.