Qlogic SANbox 5600 Series

9 – Device Security Configuration
Managing Groups
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Managing Groups
Managing Groups consists of the following tasks:
 Create a Group
 Delete a Group
 Rename a Group
 Copy a Group
 Add Members to a Group
 Modify a Group Member
 Remove Members from a Group
All of these tasks require an Admin session and a Security Edit session.
Create a Group
Creating a group involves specifying a group name and a group type. There are
three types of groups:
 ISL group–secures connected switches
 Port group–secures connected devices
 MS group–secures management server commands
Enter the Group Create command to create a new port group as shown in the
following example:
SANbox (admin-security) #> group create group_port port
Delete a Group
Enter the Group Delete command to delete group_port from the security database
as shown in the following example:
SANbox (admin-security) #> group delete group_port
Rename a Group
Enter the Group Rename command to rename group_port to port_1 as shown in
the following example:
SANbox (admin-security) #> group rename group_port port_1
Copy a Group
Enter the Group Copy command to copy the contents of an existing group
(group_port) to a new group (port_1) as shown in the following example:
SANbox (admin-security) #> group copy group_port port_1