Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developers Guide v12.3.0 - Manual (Page 119)

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NOTE
The Brocade_NumericSensor returns instances to represent the power usage value for Brocade
6505, 6510 switches, FC 16-32, FC 16-48, FC 8-32E, FC8-48E software Blades, CR16-4, and
CR16-8 core blades which are running on Fabric OS v7.0.1 or later.
Names
Various system objects such as a switch, switch port, device, device port, and so on are identified
by a WWN. For convenience, these system objects may also be assigned a user-friendly name. The
user-friendly name is generally the ElementName property in the instance. This feature provides
the ability to easily discover the user-friendly names for all the system objects.
The following are the functions:
• Discovering the list of user-friendly names.
• There will be no support for setting of Name for a system object.
• Fabric names will not be reported by the Brocade SMI Agent. This is to avoid the conflict where
the fabric and seed or principal switch share the same WWN.
• All the detached WWN names are supported by the Brocade SMI Agent.
Data model
A new extrinsic method is defined in the Brocade_Agent class.