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Understanding virtual fabric restrictions – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Fabric OS Command Reference

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Understanding Virtual Fabric restrictions

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Create and register recovery share.

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Encryption group- and clustering-related operations.

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Manage keys, including creation, recovery, and archiving functions.

Admin and FabricAdmin
Users authenticated with the Admin and FabricAdmin RBAC roles may perform routine encryption
switch management functions including the following:

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Configure virtual devices and crypto LUN.

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Configure LUN/tape associations.

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Perform re-keying operations.

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Perform firmware download.

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Perform regular Fabric OS management functions.

For a listing of RBAC permissions for cryptoCfg subcommands, refer to the Fabric OS Encryption
Adminsitrator’s Guide
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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.

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.