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 example prompts for when you are 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). A device member:
• Can be either a device port WWN or device node WWN.
• Grants view access to the device and zoning rights.
• Provides a pure virtual view. The cabling and switch port diagnostics and control is done 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. The physical fabric administrator performs cabling and
switch port diagnostics and control.
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,port 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,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.
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