Document Outline

• Contents
• About This Document
  • In this chapter
  • How this document is organized
  • Supported hardware and software
  • What’s new in this document
  • Document conventions
    • Text formatting
    • Notes, cautions, and warnings
    • Key terms
  • Notice to the reader
  • Additional information
    • Brocade resources
    • Other industry resources
  • Getting technical help
  • Brocade SMI Agent support
  • Document feedback
• Overview
  • In this chapter
  • Common Information Model (CIM)
  • Brocade SMI-S Initiative
  • Brocade SMI Agent
• Brocade SMI Agent
  • In this chapter
  • Start the Brocade SMI Agent
    • Starting the SMI-A
    • Starting the SMI-A as a service
  • Stop the Brocade SMI Agent
    • Stopping the SMI-A
    • Stopping the SMI-A when mutual authentication for clients is enabled
    • Stopping the SMI-A as a service
  • Service Location Protocol (SLP) support
    • slptool commands
    • SLP on Linux, Solaris, and AIX
    • SLP on Windows
  • Disable HTTP for security reasons
  • Connection monitoring
  • Enable multi-homed support
    • Configuring IP address for switch-to-SMIAgent communication in multi-homed systems
    • Configuring IP address for SMI Agent client to server communication in multi-homed systems
• Brocade SMI Agent Configuration
  • In this chapter
  • About the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool
  • Launch the Brocade SMI-A Configuration Tool
    • Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Linux, Solaris, and AIX)
    • Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Windows)
  • Proxy connections
    • Reloading provider.xml on fabric segmentation
    • Including multiple switch connection entries from the same fabric in the provider.xml
    • Adding proxy connections
    • Removing proxy connections
    • Login failure status information
  • Access control
    • Mapping an SMI-A user to a switch user
    • Setting up default SMI-A user mapping
    • Limitations of SMI-A user-to-switch user mapping
  • SMI Agent security
    • Mutual authentication setup
    • Configuring mutual authentication for clients
    • Configuring mutual authentication for indications
    • Configuring HTTP access
    • Importing client certificates
    • Exporting server certificates
    • Viewing or deleting client certificates from SMI-A server truststore
    • Configuring user authentication
    • Encoding proxy connection details
  • SMI Agent service configuration and removal
    • Configuring or removing the SMI Agent as a service
  • Port configuration
    • Configure HTTP and HTTPS ports
    • Configure ARR and eventing ports
  • Fabric Manager database server configuration
    • Configuring the Fabric Manager database server connection parameters
  • Firmware download software locations configuration
    • Configuring software locations for firmware download
  • Debugging and logging options configuration
    • Debugging options for CIMOM
    • Debugging options for the provider
    • Logging options for the provider
    • Capture provider cache information
  • Support information collection
    • Collect support information
    • XML dump
  • CIMOM server configuration
    • Configuring the CIMOM server
    • Configuring log file options
• Mutual Authentication for Clients and Indications
  • In this chapter
  • Introduction
  • Mutual authentication for clients
    • Enabling mutual authentication for clients
  • Mutual authentication for indications
    • Enabling mutual authentication for indications
  • Client configuration to use client certificates
    • Configuring a client to use client certificates using a property file
    • Configuring a client to use client certificates using system property values
    • Configuring a client to use client certificates using client listener program (mutual authentication for indications only)
  • Client configuration to use client certificates for default SSL indications
    • Configuring a client for default SSL indications using a property file
    • Configuring a client for default SSL indications using system property values
    • Configuring a client for default SSL indications using client listener program
  • Troubleshooting
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • In this chapter
  • General questions
  • Troubleshooting
• Licenses and Attributions
  • In this chapter
  • Open source software used in SMI-A
  • Sun Industry Standards Source License
  • IBM Common Public License
  • OpenSLP License
  • Bouncy Castle
  • GNU Library General Public License
  • Public Domain
  • Sun Binary Code License Agreement
• Index