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13-14 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-0000518-09

Creating and Maintaining Zones

Before executing cfgDisable, cfgEnable, or cfgSave, execute the rcsDisabled command to check

whether or not your fabric has Reliable Commit Service (RCS) enabled (rcsDisabled=0). If RCS is

disabled (rcsDisabled=1), check for older switches in the fabric. After the older switches are

upgraded, RCS is enabled by default.

RCS is available on all switch versions 4.1 and later. RCS guarantees that either all or none of the

switches receive the new zone configuration. It is recommended that you use RCS to secure a reliable

propagation of the latest zone configuration. If you use non-RCS mode, you must log in to every switch

to monitor the status of the zone configuration.

To create a zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Enter the zoneCreate command.

3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.

Example

To add devices (members) to a zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.

2. Enter the zoneAdd command.

3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the change to the defined configuration.

Example

switch:admin> zonecreate “greenzone”, “2,32; 2,33; 2,34; 4,4”

switch:admin> zonecreate “redzone”, “21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23; 4,3”

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

switch:admin> zoneadd “greenzone”, “1,2”

switch:admin> zoneadd “redzone”, “21:00:00:20:37:0c:72:51”

switch:admin> zoneadd “bluezone”, “4,6; 21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23