Managing Aliases; Create An Alias; Delete An Alias; Rename An Alias - Qlogic SANbox 5000 Series Interface Manual

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Managing Aliases

Managing aliases consists of the following tasks:

Create an Alias

Delete an Alias

Rename an Alias

Copy an Alias
Add Members to an Alias
Remove Members from an Alias
All of these tasks require an Admin session and a Zoning Edit session.
7.8.1
Create an Alias
Enter the
example:
SANbox #> admin start
SANbox (admin) #> zoning edit
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> alias create alias_1
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
7.8.2
Delete an Alias
Enter the
shown in the following example:
SANbox #> admin start
SANbox (admin) #> zoning edit
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> alias delete alias_1
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
7.8.3
Rename an Alias
Enter the
following example:
SANbox #> admin start
SANbox (admin) #> zoning edit
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> alias rename alias_1 alias_a
SANbox (admin-zoning) #> zoning save
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Alias Create command to create a new alias as shown in the following
Alias Delete command to delete alias_1 from the zoning database as
Alias Rename command to rename alias_1 to alias_a as shown in the
7 – Zoning Configuration
Managing Aliases
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