Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer’s Guide
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Contents
About This Document
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Supported hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Chapter 1
Connecting to the Fabric
Role-Based Access Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Admin Domains and Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent . . . . . . . . 2
Connecting to the Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent. . . . . . . . . . . 2
Connecting the Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent
when security is enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Connecting the Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent
when security is not enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Discovering a fabric and a host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fabric discovery using SMIA extrinsic method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Host discovery using SMIA extrinsic method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Discovery using SMIA Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2
Managed Object Format Files
Brocade Managed Object Format files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Additional MOF description specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Creating and deleting instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Deprecation qualifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Summary of Contents for Network Advisor SMI Agent 12.0.0
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