Switch Port Members; Switch Members; Admin Domains And Switch Wwn - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Switch port members

Switch port members are defined by switch domain,port. A switch port member:
• Grants port control rights and zoning rights for that switch port.
• Grants view access and zoning rights to the device connected to that switch port.
• Allows you to share domain,port members across multiple Admin Domains. In each Admin Domain,
you can also zone shared devices differently.
• Implicitly includes all devices connected to the specified domain,port members in the Admin Domain
membership.
• Allows you to specify a range of ports as Admin Domain members. For example:
port range arguments are expanded and stored in the Admin Domain member list.
If a device is a member of an Admin Domain, the switch port to which the device is connected becomes an
indirect member of that Admin Domain and the domain,port is removed from the AD0 implicit membership
list.
NOTE: The domain,port members are not automatically changed when the switch Domain ID changes.

Switch members

Switch members are defined by the switch WWN or Domain ID. A switch member:
• Grants administrative control to the switch.
• Grants port control for all ports in that switch.
• Allows switch administrative operations such as switchDisable, switchEnable, reboot, and
firmwareDownload.
• Does not provide zoning rights for the switch ports or devices.
To allow devices to be zoned within Admin Domains, you must specify the port members using
domain,port or device WWN members.
E_Ports (E_Ports, VE_Ports, EX_Ports, and VEX_Ports) are implicitly shared across all Admin Domains. An
administrator can perform port control (such as portDisable or portEnable) only if the domain,port
of the E_Port is part of the Admin Domain.
NOTE: Only the WWN of the switch is saved in the Admin Domain. If you change the Domain ID of the
switch, the Admin Domain ownership of the switch is not changed.

Admin Domains and switch WWN

Admin Domains are treated as fabrics. Because switches cannot belong to more than one fabric, switch
WWNs are converted so that they appear as unique entities in different Admin Domains (fabrics). This
WWN conversion is done only in the AD1 through AD254 context. AD0 and AD255 use
unconvertedswitch WWNs. The switch WWN has 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 would be:
50:06:06:9e:42:4e:09:01
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