Dell PowerEdge M420 Administrator's Manual

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Dell 8/4Gbps FC SAN Module Administrator’s Guide 3353-1001345-01Understanding Admin Domain restrictions BUnderstanding Admin Domain restrictionsA subset of commands is subject to Admin Domain restrictions that may be in place. In order toexecute an AD-restricted command on a switch or device, the switch or device must be part of agiven Admin domain, and the user must be logged into that Admin Domain.Six Admin Domain types are supported, as defined in Table 9.Using the command line interfaceThis appendix describes using the command line interface (accessed via Telnet, SSH, or serialconsole) to manage the Dell 8/4Gbps FC SAN Module. The command line interface (CLI) enablesan administrator to monitor and manage the FC SAN Module from a standard workstation.Selected commands must be issued from a secure Telnet or SSH session, as indicated in thecommand description in this manual. Access is controlled by a switch-level password for eachaccess level. The commands available through the CLI are based on the user’s login role and thelicense keys used to unlock certain features.The documentation for each command includes a synopsis of its syntax, a description of commanduse, and a set of examples. The same information can be accessed by issuing help command forthe module. This command displays the help page for the specified command. For example, todisplay the help page for ad, type:switch:admin> help adTABLE 9 AD typesAD Type DefinitionAllowed Allowed to execute in all ADs.PhysFabricOnly Allowed to execute only in AD255 context (and the usershould own access to AD0-AD255 and have admin RBACprivilege).Disallowed Only allowed to execute in AD0 or AD255 context, notallowed in AD1-AD254 context.PortMember All control operations allowed only if the port or the localswitch is part of the current AD. View access allowed if thedevice attached to the port is part of current AD.AD0Disallowed Allowed to execute only in AD255 and AD0 (if no ADs areconfigured).AD0Only Allowed to execute only in AD0 when ADs are notconfigured.