Differentiation between switches and domains – Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developers Guide v12.3.0 User Manual

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Switch profile

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NOTE

Switch un-monitoring is not supported from SMI perspective and if the switch is un monitored, then
the SMI Agent would return stale information.

Differentiation between switches and domains

The following properties are used in CIM_CompterSystem to differentiate a simple switch, a switch
created through VF, a switch created through Inter-Fabric Routing Profile (IFR), differentiating Front
Domain from the Translate Domain, and the physical system that is partitioned.

IdentifyingDescriptions = {"DomainID", "SNIA:DetailedType"};

OtherIdentifyingInfo = {"1", "Front Domain"}; where "1" is DomainID and type is Front Domain.

OtherIdentifyingInfo has the value of DomainID and switch detailed type (Front Domain, Translate
Domain, Virtual Switch or None).

In case of VF setup, OtherIdentifyingInfo additionally has the values of the VF_ID, and
IdentifyingDescriptions properties additionally has the value SNIA:VF_ID as the detailed type.

PortDiscriminator in CIM_FCPort differentiates among ports that support IFR (FCR), internal and
external ports, Virtual Fabrics (VF), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE). This property is applicable for only logical ports. The possible values are given in

Table 9

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Physical package, access points, software, blades, and
location subprofiles

The Physical Package, Access Points, Software, Blades, and Location subprofiles model the
product information of a switch, the URL to launch the element manager of a switch, the blades
within the chassis, and the details such as primary system owner name, contact, and location for a
Brocade_Chassis.

Table 10

explains the subprofiles and their functions.

TABLE 9

PortDiscriminator values

No

Port

PortDiscriminator value

1

FC ports on the FCIP Ethernet port

FCIP

2

Virtual FCoE ports inside the Brocade 8000

internal + FCoE

3

Virtualized node ports in NPIV and Access Gateway

NPIV

4

Front and xlate phantom FC ports (except the FF port from
the backbone)

IFR virtual

5

Front phantom FC port from the backbone connected to the
edge switch

IFR

6

ICL ports

Chassis

7

Dynamically created FC ports for logical connections in
virtual fabrics

VF

8

All other FC ports (like physical ports)

Not Applicable

9

CU ports of Blade Switches

Internal

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