Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 33)

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Understanding Virtual Fabric restrictions
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• Perform firmware download.
• Perform regular Fabric OS management functions.
For a listing of RBAC permissions for cryptoCfg subcommands, refer to the Fabric OS Encryption
Adminsitrator’s Guide.
Understanding Virtual Fabric restrictions
All Fabric OS commands are subject to additional RBAC enforcement with regard to Virtual Fabric
contexts and switch types. Commands can be executed in one or more of the contexts described in
Table 3 . Execution of chassis commands requires chassis permissions.
Switch commands are further defined by the switch type restrictions as described in Table 4 .
Switch type restrictions are not applicable to commands that require chassis permissions.
In a Virtual Fabric environment where contexts are enforced, the following Virtual Fabric restrictions
apply to the RBAC permissions specified in
Table 2 . Refer to the userConfig command for more
information on configuring user account access permissions in a Virtual Fabric environment.
• Any given role is allowed to execute all switch commands to which the role is authorized in the
account’s home context. The default home context is the default logical fabric FID 128.
• You can change an account’s home context to a specified FID and configure the account
permissions to access additional logical switches specified in the user’s Fabric ID list.
• Accounts with user or admin permissions can be granted chassis permissions. A user account
with the chassis role can execute chassis-level commands at the user RBAC access level. An
admin account with the chassis role can execute chassis-level commands at the admin RBAC
access level.
Use the classConfig --showcli command to look up the Virtual Fabrics context for a specified
command. Refer to
Appendix A, “Command Availability,” for a complete listing of Virtual Fabric
restrictions that apply to the commands included in this manual.
TABLE 3 Virtual Fabric contexts
Context type Definition
Switch context Command applies to the current logical switch only, or to a specified
logical switch.
Chassis context Command applies to the chassis on which it is executed.
Switch and chassis
context Command can be executed in a logical switch context or in a chassis
context.
Disallowed Command is not supported in Virtual Fabric mode.
TABLE 4 Switch types
Switch type Definition
All Switches Command can be executed in any switch context.
Base Switch Only Command can be executed only on the base switch.
Default Switch Only Command can be executed only on the default switch.
N/A Command is a chassis command or not supported in Virtual Fabric
mode.