Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.0.0 (53-1000606-01, April 2008)

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Administrative domains
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Admin Domains and login
You are always logged in to an Admin Domain, and you can view and modify only the devices in that
Admin Domain.
You can log in to only one Admin Domain at a time. When you log in, you select the Admin Domain
that you want to manage. You can later change the Admin Domain to which you are logged in.
If you have more than one Admin Domain, one of them will have been specified as your “home
Admin Domain.” Your home Admin Domain is the one you are automatically logged in to unless you
explicitly select a different one. If a home Admin Domain is deleted or deactivated, then by default
you will be logged in to the lowest numbered Admin Domain in your Admin Domain list. A home
Admin Domain, like the Admin Domain list, is a configurable property of a non-default user account.
For default accounts such as admin and user, the home Admin Domain defaults to AD0 and cannot
be changed. For user-defined accounts, the home Admin Domain also defaults to 0 but an
administrator can set the home Admin Domain to any Admin Domain to which the account has
been given access. The Admin Domain list for default admin accounts is 0–255, which gives
automatic access to any Admin Domain as soon as it is created, and makes them physical fabric
administrators. The Admin Domain list for the default user account is AD0 only. The Admin Domain
list property for default accounts also cannot be changed.
A “physical fabric administrator” is an admin role user whose account has access to all Admin
Domains (AD0-255) as soon as they are created. Only physical fabric administrators can create,
modify, delete, and activate or deactivate Admin Domains.
Admin Domains and switch WWN
Admin Domains are treated as fabrics. Because switches cannot belong to more than one fabric,
switch WWNs (world-wide names) are converted so that they appear as unique entities in different
Admin Domains (fabrics).
The switch WWN is in the following format:
10:00:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn
In an Admin Domain context, the switch WWN is converted from NAA=1 to NAA=5 format, with the
Admin Domain number added, using the following syntax:
5n:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:n9:xx
where xx is the AdminDomain_number.
For example, if the switch WWN is:
10:00:00:60:69:e4:24:e0
then the converted WWN for that switch in AD1 is:
50:06:06:9e:42:4e:09:01
Admin Domains and zoning
Each Admin Domain has its own zone database, with both defined and effective zone
configurations and all related zone objects (zones, zone aliases, and zone members). Within an
Admin Domain, you can configure zoning only with the devices that are present in that Admin
Domain.