Adding Devices (Members) To A Zone - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
4. Enter the cfgShow command to view the changes.
Example Creating a new zone

Adding devices (members) to a zone

ATTENTION
This command will add all zone member aliases that match the "aliasname_pattern" in the zone
database to the specified zone.
Use the following procedure to add members to a zone:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the zoneAdd command, using either of the following syntaxes:
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.
4. Enter the cfgShow command to view the changes.
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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 sloth, "b*; 10:00:00:00:01:1e:20:20"
switch:admin> cfgsave
switch:admin> cfgshow
Defined configuration:
zone: matt 30:06:00:07:1e:a2:10:20; 3,2
zone: sloth bawn; bolt; bond; brain; 10:00:00:00:01:1e:20:20
alias: bawn 3,5; 4,8
alias: bolt 10:00:00:02:1f:02:00:01
alias: bond 10:00:05:1e:a9:20:00:01; 3,5
alias: brain 11,4; 22,1; 33,6
alias: jake 4,7; 8,9; 14,11
alias: jeff 30:00:00:05:1e:a1:cd:02; 40:00:00:05:1e:a1:cd:04
alias: jones 7,3; 4,5
alias: zeus 4,7; 6,8; 9,2
Effective configuration:
No Effective configuration: (No Access)
zoneadd "zonename", "member[; member...]"
zoneadd "zonename", "aliasname_pattern*[;members]"
NOTE
This command supports partial pattern matching ("wildcards") of zone member aliases.
This allows you to add multiple aliases that match the "aliasname_pattern" in the
command line.
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.
Zone creation and maintenance
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