Zone Creation And Maintenance; Creating A Zone; Adding Devices (Members) To A Zone - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

Zone creation and maintenance

To create a broadcast zone, use the reserved name "broadcast". Do not give a regular zone the
name of "broadcast". See
special type of zone.
Virtual Fabric considerations: Zone definitions should not include logical port numbers. Zoning is
not enforced on logical ports.

Creating a zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the zoneCreate command, using the following syntax:
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
Example

Adding devices (members) to a zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the zoneAdd command, using the following syntax:
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
Example
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"Broadcast zones"
zonecreate "zonename", "member[; member...]"
To create a broadcast zone, use the reserved name "broadcast".
The cfgSave command ends and commits the current zoning transaction buffer to nonvolatile
memory. If a transaction is open on a different switch in the fabric when this command is run,
the transaction on the other switch is automatically aborted. A message displays on the other
switches to indicate that the transaction was aborted.
switch:admin> zonecreate "greenzone", "2,32; 2,33; 2,34; 4,4"
switch:admin> zonecreate "bluezone", "21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23; 4,3"
switch:admin> zonecreate "broadcast", "1,2; 2,33; 2,34"
switch:admin> cfgsave
You are about to save the Defined zoning configuration. This
action will only save the changes on the Defined configuration.
Any changes made on the Effective configuration will not
take effect until it is re-enabled.
Do you want to save Defined zoning configuration only? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
zoneadd "zonename", "member[; member...]"
The cfgSave command ends and commits the current zoning transaction buffer to nonvolatile
memory. If a transaction is open on a different switch in the fabric when this command is run,
the transaction on the other switch is automatically aborted. A message displays on the other
switches to indicate that the transaction was aborted.
switch:admin> zoneadd "greenzone", "1,2"
switch:admin> zoneadd "bluezone", "21:00:00:20:37:0c:72:51"
switch:admin> zoneadd "broadcast", "1,3"
switch:admin> cfgsave
You are about to save the Defined zoning configuration. This

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