Copying Zone Sets; Renaming Zones, Zone Sets, And Aliases - Cisco Nexus 5500 Series NX-OS Configuration Manual

Configuring and Managing Zones
• To a remote location (using FTP, SCP, SFTP, or TFTP)
The active zone set is not part of the full zone set. You cannot make changes to an existing zone set and
activate it if the full zone set is lost or is not propagated.
Copying an active zone set to a full zone set may overwrite a zone with the same name if it already exists
Caution
in the full zone set database.

Copying Zone Sets

On Cisco SAN switches, you cannot edit an active zone set. However, you can copy an active zone set to
create a new zone set that you can edit.
Procedure
Step 1
Step 2

Renaming Zones, Zone Sets, and Aliases

You can rename a zone, zone set, fcalias, or zone-attribute-group.
Procedure
Step 1
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Command or Action
zone copy active-zoneset full-zoneset vsan vsan-id
Example:
switch# zone copy active-zoneset full-zoneset
vsan 301
zone copy vsan vsan-id active-zoneset
scp://guest@myserver/tmp/active_zoneset.txt
Example:
switch# zone copy vsan 55 active-zoneset
scp://guest@myserver/tmp/active_zoneset.txt
Command or Action
configure terminal
Example:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)#
Cisco Nexus 5500 Series NX-OS SAN Switching Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
Zone Set Duplication
Purpose
Makes a copy of the active zone set in
the specified VSAN to the full zone set.
Copies the active zone in the specified
VSAN to a remote location using SCP.
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
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