HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.0.0 Command Reference Guide (AA-RW1MA-TE, May 2005)

196 Fabric OS commands
Creates a Fabric Assist zone.
Synopsis
fazonecreate “fazoneName”,“member; member ...”
Availability
admin
Description
Use this command to create a new Fabric Assist zone. You must specify a name and member list. The FA
zone name must be unique among all Fabric Assist zone objects. The member list must be enclosed in
quotation marks members separated by a semicolons.
A Fabric Assist zone name is in C language style. It must begin with a letter and be followed by any
number of letters, digits, and underscore characters. Names are case sensitive; for example, “Zone_1”
and “fazone_1” are different Fabric Assist zones. Spaces are ignored.
The Fabric Assist zone member list must have at least one FA host and one target member. Empty lists are
not allowed.
When a Fabric Assist zone member is specified by physical fabric port number, then all devices connected
to that port are in the Fabric Assist zone. If this port is an arbitrated loop, then all devices on the loop are
in the Fabric Assist zone.
WWNs are specified as eight hex numbers separated by colons, for example,
“10:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a”. Zoning has no knowledge of the fields within a WWN; the eight bytes
are simply compared with the node and port names presented by a device in a login frame (FLOGI or
PLOGI).
When a Fabric Assist zone member is specified by node name, then all ports on that device are in the
Fabric Assist zone. When a Fabric Assist zone member is specified by port name, only that single device
port is in the Fabric Assist zone. Zone alias names have the same format as Fabric Assist zone names and
are created with the aliCreate command. The alias must resolve to a list of one or more physical fabric
port numbers, WWNs, or a Fabric Assist host.
A Fabric Assist host member is defined by wrapping the physical fabric port or a physical device (a
WWN) between “H{” and “}”. For example, “H{5,6}” or “H{10:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a}” is a
Fabric Assist host. The type of Fabric Assist zone members used to define a Fabric Assist zone might be
mixed and matched. For example, a Fabric Assist zone defined with the following members “2,12;
2,14; 10:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a” would contain devices connected to switch 2, ports 12 and 14,
and the device with a WWN of “10:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a” (either node name or port name:
whichever port in the fabric it is connected to.)
This command does not change the defined configuration (which you can view using the cfgShow
command) until the cfgSave command is issued. For the change to become effective, an appropriate
Fabric Assist zone configuration must be enabled using the cfgEnable command. For the change to be
preserved across switch reboots, it must be saved to flash memory using the cfgSave command.
NOTE: When security is enabled, this command can be issued only from the primary FCS switch.
faZoneCreate