Managing Admin Domains; Understanding The Ad Transaction Model - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

Managing admin domains

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.
• "Implementing admin
• "Creating an admin
• "Assigning a user to an admin
• "Activating and deactivating admin
• "Adding and removing admin domain
• "Renaming an Admin
• "Deleting an Admin
• "Deleting all user-defined Admin
• "Validating an Admin Domain member

Understanding the AD transaction model

This section summarizes the ad command. 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:
Effective configuration—The Admin Domain configuration that is currently in effect.
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Defined configuration—The Admin Domain configuration that is saved in flash memory. There
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might be differences between the effective configuration and the defined configuration.
Transaction buffer—The Admin Domain configuration that is in the current transaction buffer and
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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
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.
ad --apply
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.
ad --transabort
Aborts the transaction and clears the transaction buffer. The effective and defined configurations remain
unchanged.
You can enter the ad --transshow command at any time to display the ID of the current Admin Domain
transaction.
Detailed information about CLI syntax and options is available in the Fabric OS Command Reference
Manual.
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