Deployment Guide

Assigning Admin Domains to an existing user account
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the userConfig --addad command using the -a option to provide access to Admin Domains
and the -h option to specify the home Admin Domain.
userconfig --addad username -h home_AD -a "AD_list"
The following example assigns Admin Domain green_ad2 to the existing user account ad1admin.
switch:admin> userconfig --addad ad1admin -a "green_ad2"
Creating a physical fabric administrator user account
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the userConfig --add command using the -r option to set the role to admin and the -a option
to provide access to Admin Domains 0 through 255.
userconfig --add username -r admin -h home_AD -a "0-255"
The following example creates new user account pfa_admin1 with an admin role, access to all
Admin Domains (AD0 through AD255), and home Admin Domain set to 255. This user account is
now a physical fabric administrator.
switch:admin> userconfig --add pfa_admin1 -r admin -h 255 -a "0-255"
Removing an Admin Domain from a user account
When you remove an Admin Domain from an account, all of the currently active sessions for that
account are logged out.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the userConfig --deletead command:
userconfig --deleteadusername [-h admindomain_ID] [-a admindomain_ID_list
If the -h argument is not specified, the home Admin Domain either remains as it was or becomes
the lowest Admin Domain ID in the remaining list.
Example of removing Admin Domain green_ad2 from the user account adm1
switch:admin> userconfig --deletead adm1 -a "green_ad2"
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Wed Jan 27 20:57:14 2010...
Security Policy, Password or Account Attribute Change: adm1 will be logged out
Ads for account adm1 has been successfully deleted.
Activating an Admin Domain
An Admin Domain can be in either an active or inactive state. When you create an Admin Domain, it is
automatically in the active state.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Switch to the AD255 context, if you are not already in that context.
ad --select 255
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