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Brocade SMI Agent User’s Guide 3
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Brocade SMI Agent
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FIGURE 2 Brocade SMI Agent high-level architecture
The Brocade SMI Agent supports the evolving SMI-S standard and the Brocade functionality not
available through the standard.
The Brocade SMI Agent provides the following features:
• CIM agent compliant with SMI-S, with support for the following profiles:
• Server profile (supported by the SMI-A with CIMOM vendor-supplied providers)
• Fabric profile
• Switch profile
• Extender profile (discovery only)
• FC HBA profile
The Brocade SMI Agent Developer’s Guide has additional information about the supported
profiles and subprofiles.
• Additional support for physical objects such as chassis, blades, fans, power supplies,
temperature sensors, and transceivers
• Support for the following:
• Connection and account management
• Port performance and error statistics
• HBA and device information via FDMI
• Configuration download to switches
• Firmware download to switches
Brocade
CIM Object Manager
(CIMOM)
Management
Provider
CIM Client CIM Client CIM Client
Provider
Provider Provider
Brocade SMI Agent
Application