Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001778-01 - Manual (Page 21)

Brocade SMI Agent User’s Guide 5
53-1001778-01
Chapter
2
Brocade SMI Agent
In this chapter
• Start the Brocade SMI Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
• Stop the Brocade SMI Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
• Service Location Protocol (SLP) support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Disable HTTP for security reasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• Connection monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• Enable multi-homed support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Start the Brocade SMI Agent
There are two ways you can start the SMI-A:
• from the command line
• as a service or daemon
You can start the SMI-A as a service only if the option to start as a service was selected during
installation or if you configure the SMI-A as a service using the Brocade SMI-A Configuration Tool,
as described in
“SMI Agent service configuration and removal” on page 31.
The following procedures describe how to start the SMI-A without security and with security
enabled.
By default, security is disabled on all platforms. In this case, security is the authentication of the
client username and password (and domain name, if security is enabled on Windows by selecting
domain authentication) when connecting to the server. The procedure for enabling security varies,
depending on the platform.
On Solaris, Linux, or AIX, if security is enabled for the SMI-A, start the SMI-A as a root using the
start_server script.
NOTE
This document uses <SMIAgent> to refer to the installation folder, although your installation folder
might be different (if you changed it from the default).
Starting the SMI-A
1. Type the following at the command line:
On Linux, Solaris, and AIX:
sh <SMIAgent>/agent/server/jserver/bin/start_server.sh