Managing Zone Aliases; Creating And Populating Zone Aliases - Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Administrator's Manual

Managing Zone Aliases

An alias is a logical group of port area numbers, WWNs, or AL_PAs. 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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A switch domain and port area number pair, for example, 2, 20
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Device node and device port WWNs
•
QuickLoop AL_PAs

Creating and Populating Zone Aliases

Use the following procedure to create a zone alias.
To create a zone alias
1. Launch the Zone Admin module as described on
2. Select a format to display zoning members in the Member Selection List as described in
Views"
3. Click the Alias tab and click New Alias.
The Create New Alias dialog box displays.
4. Type a name for the new alias and click OK.
The new alias displays in the Name list in the Alias tab.
5. Click plus signs (+) in the Member Selection List to view the nested elements.
The choices available in the Member Selection List depend on the selection in the View menu.
6. Click elements in the Member Selection List that you want to include in the alias.
The Add Member button becomes active.
7. Click Add Member to add alias members.
Selected members move to the Alias Members window.
8. Optional: Repeat steps 6 and 7 to add more elements to the alias.
9. Optional: Click Add Other to include a WWN, port, or QuickLoop (AL_PA) that is not currently a
part of the fabric.
10. Optional: Click Add Other Host to include a WWN, port, or QuickLoop (AL_PA) that is not
currently a part of the fabric.
At this point you can either save your changes or save and enable your changes.
11. Click Actions > Save Config Only to save the configuration changes.
To enable the configuration, see
Web Tools Administrator's Guide
Publication Number: 53-0000194-01
on page 9-8.
"Enabling Zone Configurations"
page 9-3.
on page 9-23.
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