Requirements For Admin Domains; User-Defined Administrative Domains - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

• Move devices from one Admin Domain to another without traffic disruption, cable reconnects, or
discontinuity in zone enforcement.
• Provide strong fault and event isolation between Admin Domains.
• Have visibility of all physical fabric resources. All switches, E_Ports, and FRUs (including blade
information) are visible.
• Implement Admin Domains in a fabric with some switches running AD-unaware firmware versions (that
is, firmware versions lower than Fabric OS 5.2.x).
• Continue to run existing third-party management applications. Prior and existing versions of third party
management applications continue to work with admin and user IDs.
NOTE: Fabric OS 5.2.x supports up to sixteen Admin Domains in a fabric. Admin Domain capacity has
been tested for up to 254 Admin Domains per fabric, although greater than 16 Admin Domains is not
supported.

Requirements for admin domains

This section lists the requirements for implementing Admin Domains in a fabric. For information about
supported AD platforms, see the latest version of the
• Admin Domains are supported only on fabrics with one or more switches running Fabric OS 5.2.x and
higher.
• You must have a valid Advanced Zoning license to use Admin Domains.
• The default zone mode setting must be set to No Access before you create Admin Domains (see
"Implementing admin
• To use Admin Domains and the FC-FC Routing Service in the same fabric, the switches connecting to
the FC Router must be running Fabric OS 5.2 or higher.
• If you are using LSAN zones:
• Do not use LSAN zone names ending with "_AD
• Do not use LSAN zone names longer than 57 characters.
• You must be in the native operating mode to use Admin Domains. Admin Domains are not supported in
interoperability mode.
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports cannot be members of an Admin Domain.
•

User-defined Administrative domains

AD1 through AD254 are user-defined Admin Domains. These user-defined Admin Domains can be created
only by a physical fabric administrator (see
information).
In Figure 2, AD1 and AD2 are user-defined Admin Domains.
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"Admin domain access
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