Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) Manual

Managing Administrative Domains
● Administrative Domain overview..................................................................................... 85
● Enabling Admin Domains................................................................................................87
● Admin Domain window....................................................................................................87
● Creating and populating domains................................................................................... 90
● 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:
• 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 Admin Domains on page
87).
User-defined Admin Domains
AD1 through AD254 are user-defined Admin Domains. These user-defined Admin Domains can be
created only by a physical fabric administrator in AD255.
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