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4. Enter the user name.
5. Select a role from the drop-down menu.
6. Optional: Enter a description of the account.
7.
8. Enter the password for the account.
9. Retype the password in the Confirm Password field for confirmation.
10. Check the available Virtual Fabrics or Admin Domains that you can access.
11. Select a home logical fabric ID if Virtual Fabrics are enabled, or select a home domain for the
12. For Virtual Fabrics environments, select a Chassis Role.
13. Click OK.
14. On the User tab, click Apply to apply your changes.
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The user name must begin with an alphabetic character.
The name can be up to 40 characters long. It is case-sensitive and can contain alphabetic and
numeric characters, the dot (.) and the underscore (_). It must be different from all other
account names on the logical switch.
For VF-enabled switches, the selection is done per logical fabric ID. (Refer to
Access Control" on page 14 for information about these roles.)
Click Enabled or Disabled to enable or disable the account.
The password is not displayed when you enter it on the command line.
Passwords can be from 8 through 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic or
numeric character. They can include alphanumeric characters, the dot (.), and the underscore
(_). They are case-sensitive.
Passwords must also meet any additional password rules that were set up. (Refer to the
procedure "Setting the rules for passwords"
For Virtual Fabrics, all logical fabrics IDs (1-128) are displayed, even if they have not all been
created. Only Admin Domains that were created and are accessible to you display.
If all the Admin Domains in the list are inactive, then you cannot log in to the switch.
The All option does not mean all of the listed Admin Domains; it means all Admin Domains
from AD0 through AD255, regardless of whether they were already created.
The All button is disabled unless the following conditions are met:
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The selected role for the target user must be admin or securityadmin.
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You must be a physical fabric administrator.
Selecting All makes the target user account a physical fabric administrator.
user from the Home AD menu if Admin Domains are enabled.
The default home logical fabric ID is 128.
NOTE
If AD0 is deselected in the user's Admin Domain list and no other Admin Domains are selected,
the next available Admin Domain becomes the user's default home Admin Domain.
The chassis role determines the RBAC role and permissions of the user for performing all
chassis-level operations in all logical fabrics.
User-defined accounts
on page 214 for more information.)
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