Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Administrative Domain management

Using Administrative Domains (Admin Domains), 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.

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 or domain ID (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

Fabric Manager updates the Admin Domain information every 30 minutes. Using the Refresh Fabric

Data option from the right-click menu does not refresh this information.

You can manage Admin Domains using the Admin Domain module of the Web Tools interface. From

the Admin Domain module you can:

• create Admin Domains

• rename Admin Domains

• add and remove Admin Domain members

• delete Admin Domains

• activate and deactivate Admin Domains

See the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide for additional information.

Requirements for Admin Domains

Admin Domains are supported on fabrics with switches running Fabric OS 5.2.0 and later.

You must have a valid Advanced Zoning license to use Admin Domains.

A fabric running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or later with a valid zoning license is called an Admin

Domain-capable fabric.

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).

Launching the Admin Domain module from Fabric Manager

• Right-click a fabric and select AD Admin from the context menu.

Web Tools launches and displays the Admin Domain module, as shown in Figure 121. See the

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide for instructions on using this module.