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Managing Administrative Domains

In this chapter

Administrative Domain overview

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.
NOTE
ADs and Virtual Fabrics are mutually exclusive. Virtual Fabrics must be disabled if you want to use
the AD feature.

Requirements for Admin Domains

The following are the requirements for using administrative domains:
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Administrative Domain overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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Enabling Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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Admin Domain window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Creating and populating domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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Modifying Admin Domain members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Admin Domains are supported on fabrics with switches running Fabric OS v5.2.0 or later.
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 (refer to
on page 71).
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