Hard-zoning records are no longer an issue in the alishow parser.

The external fibrechannel-parsers (fcparser.jar) recently safely ignored multiple cfg: sections, but was still hanging up on hard zoning records.

hard-zoning records — basically “the zone includes blade X, port Y” — not even recommended by Brocade, is occasionally seen in “in the wild”, typically in environments merged into the current one through corporate merger/acquisition of an older SAN. Few support the additional effort and logistical challenge of maintaining hard-zoning of any significant size. It’s those “attritioning out” systems that administrators are nicely letting be until they roll off their life-cycle into recycle.

For now, those hard zoning records would stop the parser immediately. Now, the parser ignores them, still reads the zoning record if available, and carries on.