HP StorageWorks 8/40 Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-100134 - Page 113
Managing Administrative Domains, In this Administrative domain overview
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Chapter Managing Administrative Domains 5 In this chapter •Administrative domain overview 81 •Enabling administrative domains 83 •Admin Domain window 84 •Creating and populating domains 89 •Modifying Admin Domain members 92 Administrative domain overview Using administrative domains (Admin Domains or ADs), you can partition the fabric into logical groups and allocate administration of these groups to different user accounts so that these accounts manage only the Admin Domains assigned to them and do not make changes to the rest of the fabric. The ability to assign an Admin Domain to a specific user account is performed in the User tab of the Switch Administration window and not in the Admin Domain window. You can create domains that are grouped together based on the type of members in the domain. For example, you can create Admin Domains based on the type of switches in your fabric using the WWN (not to be confused with the Admin Domain number) or put all the devices in a particular department in the same Admin Domain for ease of administering those devices. You can have up to 256 Admin Domains in a fabric (254 user-defined and 2 system-defined), numbered from 0 through 255. Admin Domains are designated by a name and a number. This document refers to specific Admin Domains using the format "ADn" where n is a number between 0 and 255. NOTE ADs and Virtual Fabrics are mutually exclusive. Virtual Fabrics must be disabled if you want to use the AD feature. Requirements for Admin Domains The following are the requirements for using administrative domains: • Admin Domains are supported on fabrics with switches running Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later. • To manage Admin Domains, you must be a physical fabric administrator. A physical fabric administrator is a user with the Admin role and access to all Admin Domains (AD0 through AD255). • The default zone mode setting must be set to No Access (refer to "Enabling administrative domains" on page 83). Web Tools Administrator's Guide 81 53-1001343-01