Many customers choose to give each attached device (Server, Tape, Storage) a nickname or alias, and create their zones that way. Some customers choose to nickname the individual connections (FA or HBA ports) uniquely within the individual components of a fabric. These are very simple to pull out of a copy of the zoning information — whether it be via text files from switches dumping their zoning/VSANs, or reading the zone info replicated in BNA. Both of these methods are handled by the “nickname” option to “vict”.

Others choose to store the nicknames or aliases of the various fabric members in the names of the zones themselves; for example, the zone that allows a server “Oracle44”, via Host Bus Adapter “HBA0”, to communicate with “VMAX12” via Front-end Adapter “10aA”, that zone might be called “Oracle44_HBA0_VMAX12_10aA_prod_A” — the additional “prod_A” is a commonly used method of adding text/comments to the data.

In this revision, I added “Vote02-ZoneSplit2andother.awk” for use at companies who nickname zones with additional text, such as Server_HBA and Server_Name_FA_etc_etc