Admin Domain Member Types; Device Members; Switch Port Members - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

• The Admin Domain list for the default admin account is 0–255, which gives this account automatic
access to any Admin Domain as soon as the domain is created, and makes this account a physical
fabric administrator.
• The Admin Domain list for the default user account is AD0 only.
• For user-defined accounts, the home Admin Domain also defaults to AD0 but an administrator can set
the home Admin Domain to any Admin Domain to which the account has been given access.
• If you are in any Admin Domain context other than AD0, the Admin Domain number is included in the
system prompt displayed during your session. The following are examples of prompts for use in the
AD0, AD1, and AD255 contexts, respectively:
sw5:admin>
sw5:AD1:admin>
sw5:AD255:admin>

Admin Domain member types

You define an Admin Domain by identifying members of that domain. Admin Domain members can be
devices, switch ports, or switches. Defining these member types is similar to defining a traditional zone
member type. An Admin Domain does not require or have a new Domain ID or management IP address
linked to it.
The following sections describe these member types in more detail.

Device members

Device members are defined by the device World Wide Name (WWN) and have the following properties:
• A device member can be either a device port WWN or device node WWN.
• A device member grants view access to the device and zoning rights. View rights are also granted to
the switch port to which the device is attached.
• A device member provides a pure virtual view. The cabling and switch port diagnostics and control is
performed by the physical fabric administrator.
Port control is provided only through switch port membership and is not provided for device members.
When you create an Admin Domain, the end device members do not have to be online, even though their
WWNs are used in the Admin Domain definition.
You can share device members across multiple Admin Domains. You can also zone shared devices
differently in each Admin Domain. A device WWN member does not automatically grant usage of
corresponding domain,portindex members in the zone configuration. If you specify a device WWN
member in the Admin Domain member list, zone enforcement ignores zones with the corresponding port
(the port to which the device is connected) member usage.

Switch port members

Switch port members are defined by switch domain,portindex and have the following properties:
• A switch port member grants port control rights and zoning rights for that switch port.
• A switch port member grants view access and zoning rights to the device connected to that switch port.
• A switch port member allows you to share domain,index members across multiple Admin Domains. In
each Admin Domain, you can also zone shared devices differently.
• A switch member does not provide zoning rights for the switch ports or devices.
• A switch port member implicitly includes all devices connected to the specified domain,index members
in the Admin Domain membership.
• A switch port member allows you to specify a range of ports as Admin Domain members. For example:
<D,[0-15]>
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,index is removed from the AD0 implicit
membership list.
158 Managing administrative domains
. The index range arguments are expanded and stored in the Admin Domain member list.