Logging Out; Role-Based Access Control - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

2. Log in to a logical fabric.
Switching between virtual fabrics
To switch between one virtual fabric to another, perform the following steps:
1. Login to Web Tools using the User Specified Logical Fabric option.
2. Select the context name from the Logical Switch drop-down list, you want to access.
3. Click Yes on the Switch Virtual Fabric Context confirmation dialog box.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to switch to another virtual fabric.

Logging out

You can end a Web Tools session either by selecting Manage > Exit, or by closing the Switch
Explorer window.
You might be logged out of a session involuntarily, without explicitly selecting the Manage > Exit,
under the following conditions:
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Role-Based Access Control

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) defines the capabilities that a user account has based on the
assigned role. For each role, there is a set of predefined permissions on the jobs and tasks that can
be performed on a fabric and its associated fabric elements.
When you log in to a switch, your user account is associated with a predefined role. The role
determines the level of access you have on that switch and in the fabric.
roles.
For information about creating unique user account roles, refer to
page 163.
TABLE 5
Role
admin
operator
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To log in to the home logical fabric, select Home Logical Fabric and click OK.
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To log in to a logical fabric other than the home logical fabric, select User Specified Logical
Fabric, enter the fabric ID number or the context name, and click OK.
On providing the context name, a dialog box displays with the available list of VF ID-Context
Name (role of the context). You can select the role from the list and login.
You can enter the context name to login.
The base switch has Base appended in the context name.
You initiate a firmware download from Web Tool's Switch Administration window. In this case,
you are logged out a few minutes later when the switch restarts.
Your session times out.
Predefined Web Tools roles
Description
You have full access to all of the Web Tools features.
You can perform any actions on the switch that do not affect the stored configuration.

Role-Based Access Control

Table 5 describes these
"User-defined accounts"
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