Firmware Upgrade Considerations; Admin Domain Management For Physical Fabric Administrators - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

• In mixed-fabric configurations, the legacy switches allow unfiltered access to the fabric and its devices;
therefore, these legacy switches should be managed by the physical fabric administrator.
• You must zone all ports and devices from legacy switches in the AD0 root zone database.
• If you have legacy switches in your AD-activated fabric, you must ensure that all new AD resources have
enough interconnectivity so that they do not get isolated into subfabrics with a legacy subfabric
interposed in the middle, as shown in
AD-capable fabric
Figure 25 Isolated subfabrics

Firmware upgrade considerations

The following scenario is for enterprise-class products only:
If the primary and secondary CPs are running pre-Fabric OS 5.2.0 and HA state is synchronized, and if
you use firmwareDownload to upgrade one CP alone (using the firmwareDownload -s option),
that CP will run in a non-AD-capable mode (AD creation operations will fail and the local switch will show
up as a non-AD-capable switch in the fabric).

Admin Domain management for physical fabric administrators

This section is for physical fabric administrators who are managing Admin Domains. You must be a
physical fabric administrator to perform the tasks in this section.
You use the ad command to perform most of the tasks in this section. This command follows a
batched-transaction model, which means that changes to the Admin Domain configuration occur in the
transaction buffer.
An Admin Domain configuration can exist in several places:
• In the effective configuration: The Admin Domain configuration that is currently in effect.
• In the defined configuration: The Admin Domain configuration that is saved in flash memory. There
might be differences between the effective configuration and the defined configuration.
• In the transaction buffer: The Admin Domain configuration that is in the current transaction buffer and
has not yet been saved or canceled.
How you end the transaction determines the disposition of the Admin Domain configuration in the
transaction buffer. The following commands end the Admin Domain transaction:
ad --save
ad --apply
ad --transabort Aborts the transaction and clears the transaction buffer. The effective and defined
You can enter the ad
transaction.
Figure
non-AD-capable
fabric
These two subfabrics have
different AD databases but
the same root zone database.
Saves the changes in the transaction buffer to the defined configuration in persistent
storage and propagates the defined configuration to all switches in the fabric. Note
that for delete and clear operations, if one or more of the deleted Admin
Domains are in the effective configuration, you cannot use --save, but must use
--apply instead.
Saves the changes to the defined configuration in persistent storage and enforces
the defined configuration on all switches in the fabric, replacing the effective
configuration.
configurations remain unchanged.
transshow command at any time to display the ID of the current Admin Domain
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