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Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide 15
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Discovery
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Setting up out-of-band discovery for an adapter
When performing out-of-band discovery, you are managing the adapter remotely. The application
connects to the agent running on the host server over the IP network and product information is
copied back from the Brocade adapter to the server. If you do not configure the application to
directly discover the devices, the connections and attached devices may not display correctly.
1. From the Host Connectivity Manager, click Discovery > Setup.
The Setup for Discovery dialog box, shown in Figure 6 , displays.
FIGURE 6 Setup for Discovery dialog box
2. From the Host Name list, select the host name from where you will discover the adapter.
For the first time, the Host Name list will contain only the Local host. You must specify the host
name or the IP address for discovering the remote servers. Only previously-discovered servers
are available in the Host Name list.
3. Type the port number in the Port Number text box. The default is 34568.
4. Type in the user ID and password that will authenticate the SAN product with the agent. The
default user ID and password are admin/password.
It is recommended you change the agent password on the host for security reasons.
NOTE
Click the Remember Host check box if you do not want to type it in each time you set up
discovery.
5. In the Polling Frequency (seconds) text box, specify the value for how frequently the application
has to poll for newly discovered devices.
All parameters related to the adapters that are installed in that server are refreshed each time
the poll occurs.
NOTE
If the Keep Polling check box is checked, polling occurs after the specified polling interval. If
the check box is not checked, polling stops.
6. Click OK.