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Using the topology api, Using the san fabric discovery api, Notes about the san fabric discovery api uris – Brocade Network Advisor REST API Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) User Manual

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Using the Topology API

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Using the Topology API

The Topology API provides GET URIs for retrieving information about the network resource shown in
the following figure.

FIGURE 1

Topology API URI hierarchy

Using the SAN Fabric Discovery API

The SAN Fabric Discovery API provides POST URIs for discovering, updating, and deleting SAN
fabrics.

Notes about the SAN Fabric Discovery API URIs

All SAN Fabric Discovery API URIs are POST requests.

You can discover all types of SAN fabrics supported by the Brocade Network Advisor.

You can update the switch credentials and the SNMP configuration used to discover the fabric
after the fabric is discovered.

You can delete a fabric based on the fabric key.

In the event that discovery of one of the virtual fabrics fails, the response payload contains the
Fabric Identifier (FID) of the fabric that failed to get discovered.

All the contexts are discovered by default in the VF setup. You cannot select the contexts to be
discovered, but you can delete the unwanted contexts through the “deletefabric” URI.

The value for snmpRetries should be from 1 through 5. The default is 3.

The value for snmpTimeout should be from 3 through 999. The default is 5.

In the event that SNMP registration fails, the discovery of the fabric still succeeds. However,
you can retrieve the events to check for any specific SNMP registration failure messages.