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3. Use the --rdcreate and --rddelete options to manage Frame Redirect (RD) Zones.
Notes Device ports are allowed to be part of several TI zones to support enhanced TI zone deployment in
FICON environments. This feature is supported only on 8G platforms running Fabric OS v.6.4.0 or
later.
You cannot swap E_ports that are configured as part of a TI zone. The TI zone information is lost
when you use portSwap to swap the E_ports. To work around this issue, reconfigure your TI zones
rather than swapping the E_ports.
The current zone commands, zoneCreate, aliCreate, cfgCreate, etc., cannot be used to manage
special zones, such as TI zones or RD zones.
The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS Commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
Operands This command takes as an operand an action and its associated arguments. When executed
without operands, the command displays the usage.
--help
1. Commands for performing specific zone operations:
--copy
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Using TI zones in logical fabrics has several restrictions. For more information, refer to the
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.
RD zones allow frames to be redirected to devices that can perform additional processing on
these frames (for example, encryption). The feature uses a combination of RD zones and
Name Server changes to map real device world wide names (WWNs) to virtual port IDs (PIDs.)
This allows redirecting a flow between a host and target to a device that can perform its
functionality without reconfiguring the host and target.
The RD Zone is part of the defined zone configuration and does not appear in the effective
zone configuration. Use cfgSave to save the RD zone changes to the defined configuration. Use
cfgShow to display the RD zones.
When you create the first RD zone, two additional zone objects are created automatically: A
base zone "red_______base" and a zone configuration "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg". These additional
zone objects are required by the implementation. These zone objects must remain on the
switch as long as other redirect zones are defined. Do not remove these objects, unless
redirection is no longer required and no other redirect zones exist.
Use zone --rddelete to remove the base RD zone, "red_______base". When the base zone is
removed, the RD zone configuration "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg" is removed as well.
Displays the command usage.
Copies a specified zone object or all zone objects from the source_AD into
the current AD. The current AD transaction buffer is used for this operation.
The following operands are optional:
source_AD.
Specifies the source Admin Domain of the zone objects. If unspecified,
objects are copied within the current AD.
source_zone_object
Specifies the zone object under the source_AD. The zone object can be a
zone configuration, a zone alias, or several zones. If a source zone object is
not specified, all zone configurations are copied over to the current Admin
Domain.
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