Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000435-01, June 2007)

Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 81

Publication Number: 53-1000435-01

Chapter

Managing Administrative Domains

In this chapter

This chapter contains the following information:

• About administrative domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

• Implementing administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . 83

• Using the Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

• Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

• Managing administrative domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

About administrative domains

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.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMIN DOMAINS

The following are requirements for using administrative domains:

• Admin Domains are supported on fabrics with switches running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or higher.

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

• A fabric running Fabric OS 5.2.0 or higher with a valid zoning license is called an “AD-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).

• The default zone mode setting must be set to No Access (see “Implementing administrative

domains” on page 83).