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Role Based Management
Overview of Role Based Management
The Role Based Management (RBM) feature allows you to create a variety of administrative
domains and enable user-based access privileges on a Brocade Virtual ADX. You can authenticate
the user, and define the user role and context.
This feature addresses virtualization requirements; a user can view and update configurations,
such as real and virtual servers and Content Switching (CSW) policies, without viewing or editing
configurations associated with another user. The Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
(RADIUS) and Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS+) authentication for the
RBM role and the context Attribute-Value Pairs (AVP) are also integrated with Brocade Virtual ADX.
The RADIUS servers support Vendor-Specific Attributes (VSA) and TACACS+ servers support custom
attributes. These servers authorize role-based users using the Authentication, Authorization, and
Accounting (AAA) server, and in addition receive role and context information in addition to
authentication from the AAA server, as shown in
Figure 1 .
FIGURE 1 Role Based Management