Creating And Managing Zone Aliases; To Create An Alias; To Add Members To An Alias; To Remove Members From An Alias - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

If the effective configuration has only a broadcast zone, then the configuration appears as a No Access
configuration. To change this configuration to All Access, you must put all the available devices in a
regular zone.
See "Activating default

Creating and managing zone aliases

A zone alias is a logical group of ports, WWNs, or AL_PAs. You can simplify the process of creating
zones by first specifying aliases, which eliminates the need for long lists of individual zone member names.
Be aware that if you are creating a new alias using
session executes cfgEnable (or cfgDisable, or cfgSave), the other user's transaction will abort your
transaction and you will receive an error message. Creating a new alias while there is a zone merge
taking place might also abort your transaction. For more details about zone merging and zone merge
conflicts, refer to

To create an alias

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the aliCreate command.
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
switch:admin> alicreate "array1", "2,32; 2,33; 2,34; 4,4"
switch:admin> alicreate "array2", "21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23; 4,3"
switch:admin> alicreate "loop1", "4,6"
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

To add members to an alias

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the aliAdd command.
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
switch:admin> aliadd "array1", "1,2"
switch:admin> aliadd "array2", "21:00:00:20:37:0c:72:51"
switch:admin> aliadd "loop1", "4,6"
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

To remove members from an alias

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the aliRemove command.
380 Administering Advanced Zoning
zones" on page 383 for additional information about default zoning.
"Adding a new switch or
aliCreate w, "1,1"
fabric" on page 389.
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