Admin Domain Interaction With Fabric Os Features - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Table 47 lists some of the Fabric OS features and considerations that apply when using Admin Domains.
Table 47

Admin Domain interaction with Fabric OS features

Fabric OS feature Admin Domain interaction
ACLs If no user-defined Admin Domains exist, you can run ACL configuration
commands in only AD0 and AD255. If any user-defined Admin Domains exist,
you can run ACL configuration commands only in AD255.
You cannot use ACL configuration commands or validate ACL policy
configurations against AD membership under each Admin Domain.
Advanced All APM-related filter setup and statistics viewing is allowed only if the local switch
Performance is part of the current Admin Domain.
Monitoring (APM)
Fabric Watch Fabric Watch configuration operations are allowed only if the local switch is part
of the current Admin Domain.
FCR You can create LSAN zones as a physical fabric administrator or as an individual
AD administrator. The LSAN zone can be part of the root zone database or the
AD zone database.
FCR collects the LSAN zones from all ADs. If both edge fabrics have matching
LSAN zones and both devices are online, FCR triggers a device import.
LSAN zone enforcement in the local fabric occurs only if the AD member list
contains both of the devices (local and imported device) specified in the LSAN
zone.
To support legacy applications, WWNs are reported based on the AD context
using NAA=5. As a result, you cannot use the NAA=5 field alone in the WWN
to detect an FC Router.
FDMI FDMI operations are allowed only in AD0 and AD255.
FICON Admin Domains support FICON. However, you must perform additional steps
because FICON management (CUP) requires additional physical control of the
ports. You must set up the switch as a physical member of the FICON AD.
DCC and SCC policies are supported only in AD0 and AD255, because ACL
configurations are supported only in AD0 and AD255.
iSCSI iSCSI operations are supported only in AD0.
Management Management interfaces that access the fabric without a user's credentials
applications continue to get the physical fabric view. Examples include: SNMPV1, Web Tools,
Fabric Manager; http access, unzoned management server query, FAL in-band CT
requests from FAL Proxy to FAL Target, and FC-CT based management
applications (such as Tivoli).
Access from applications or hosts using Management Server calls can be
controlled using the Management Server ACL support provided by the
msConfigure command. Note that this is a switch-specific setting and not a
fabric-wide setting.
Port-Swapping and Admin Domain port members are specified in domain,port format. Based on the
PID formats PID format, a domain,port member indicates a slot/port in the switch. The
domain,port member is effectively a member of that AD. If the PID format
changes, all domain,port AD members with a port index of less than 128 are
automatically converted to meet the new PID format.
Port swapping has no effect on AD support as port swapping swaps only the area
numbers of two ports and Admin Domains are specified using domain,port
members.
For detailed information about configuring the PID format, see
PID
RSCN Admin Domains do not introduce any RSCN changes to devices or hosts.
Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference for detailed information about the commands. The following
sections describe Admin Domain interactions with zones, zone databases, and LSAN zones.
format" on page 381.
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