Creating And Populating Zone Aliases; Adding And Removing Members Of A Zone Alias - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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Zoning management

Creating and populating zone aliases

An alias is a logical group of port index numbers and WWNs. Specifying groups of ports or devices
as an alias makes zone configuration easier, by enabling you to configure zones using an alias
rather than inputting a long string of individual members. You can specify members of an alias
using the following methods:
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For more information on enabling the configuration, refer to
page 134.
Use the following procedure to create a zone alias.
1. Open the Zone Administration window as described in
2. Select a format to display zoning members in the Member Selection List as described in
3. Select the Alias tab and click New Alias.
4. In the Create New Alias dialog box, enter a name for the new alias and click OK.
5. Expand the Member Selection List to view the nested elements.
6. Click elements in the Member Selection List that you want to include in the alias. The Add
7.
8. Optional: Repeat steps 6 and 7 to add more elements to the alias.
9. Optional: Click Add Other to include a WWN or port that is not currently a part of the fabric.
10. Select Actions > Save Config to save the configuration changes.

Adding and removing members of a zone alias

For more information on enabling the configuration, refer to
page 134.
Use the following procedure to add or remove zone alias members.
1. Open the Zone Administration window as described in
2. Select the Alias tab.
3. Select the alias you want to modify from the Name list.
4. Select an element in the Member Selection List that you want to add to the alias, or select an
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Identifying members by switch domain and port index number pair, for example, 2, 20.
Identifying members by device node and device port WWNs.
window" on page 121.
"Selecting a zoning view"
The Create New Alias dialog box displays.
The new alias displays in the Name list.
The choices available in the Member Selection List depend on the selection in the View menu.
Member button becomes active.
Click Add Member to add alias members.
Selected members move to the Alias Members window.
window" on page 121.
element in the Alias Members list that you want to remove.
on page 125.
"Enabling zone configurations"
"Opening the Zone Administration
"Enabling zone configurations"
"Opening the Zone Administration
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