zone

zone

Creates a zone or subzone. Also enters Chatter Zone Configuration command mode.

Syntax

zone <name> [define]

no zone <name>

Arguments

Table 69: zone command arguments
Argument	Description
<name>	Fully qualified name of the zone or subzone that you are creating. The name consists of a zone and multiple subzones that are separated by a period (x.y.z format). Restrictions on the name are: The name cannot be an integer. The name must start with a letter (upper or lower case) and be followed by a letter (upper or lower case), digit, dash or underscore. All zone and subzone names must be unique.
[define]	Define a block of information for this zone. Use [define] to assign a CNA agent to a specific zone.

Prerequisites

Must be in Chatter configuration command mode. For information on how to access this mode, see Accessing and exiting command modes.

Occurrence

Available for use multiple times in the configuration.

Description

Creates a zone or subzone. Zones contain subzones, which in turn contain either lower level subzones or CNA agents. The zone name in the following example is a fully qualified name. Zone names at each level are separated by a dot.

When you enter a fully qualified subzone name, the higher level subzones and zone are automatically created, if not already created.

When you enter the name of an existing zone or subzone for <name>, this command enters Chatter Zone Configuration command mode for the zone or subzone that you specify.

The no form of this command deletes the zone or subzone and all of its lower subzones or CNA agents.

Example

Zone AV contains subzones:

APAC
AVBackbone
CALA
EMEA
US

Each of these zones contains further subzones. For example:

APAC contains subzones:

Beijing
Malaysia
Pune
Sydney

AVBackbone contains subzones:

APACBB
EMEABB
USBB

Leaf zones (the lowest level subzones) contain CNA agents.

In the following configuration example, zone US and subzone Beijing have CNA agents assigned to them.

zone AV.APAC.Beijing define

cna-agent ...

end

zone AV.APAC.Malaysia

zone AV.APAC.Pune

zone AV.APAC.Sydney

zone AV.AVBackbone.APACBB

zone AV.AVBackbone.EMEABB

zone AV.AVBackbone.USBB

zone AV.CALA

zone AV.EMEA

zone AV.US define

cna-agent ...

end

To delete everything contained in the AVBackbone zone, enter no zone AV. AVBackbone. This command removes all the subzones and CNA agents contained in the AVBackbone zone.