Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.3.0 User Manual
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SAN discovery overview
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NOTE
The Backbone Chassis cannot be used as seed switch to discover and manage edge fabrics.
You must discover a seed switch from each edge fabric to discover and manage the edge
fabric.
NOTE
The Backbone Chassis can only discover and manage the backbone fabric.
NOTE
Professional and Professional Plus editions cannot manage the Backbone Chassis.
NOTE
Professional edition can discover only 1 fabric.
NOTE
Professional Plus edition can discover up to 2,560 ports.
NOTE
For Admin Domain (AD) devices, you must enable the AD configuration on the switch before
discovery; otherwise, end devices associated with the user-configure AD display as missing in
the topology. In addition, the Fabric OS switch must have Physical AD visibility.
For Virtual Fabric discovery device requirements, refer to
“Virtual Fabrics requirements”
To discover a Virtual Fabric device, you must have the following permissions:
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Switch user account with Chassis Admin role permission on the physical chassis.
•
Switch and SNMPv3 user account with access rights to all logical switches (all Fabric IDs
(1 - 128).
For information about configuring permissions on a Fabric OS device, refer to the
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.:
5. (Fabric OS devices only) Enter the user ID and password for the switch in the User ID and
Password fields.
6. Choose one of the following options:
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Select the Automatic option to use the default SNMPv3 profile.
The default SNMPv3 profile uses the following attributes:
Attribute
Value
Timeout
5 seconds
Retries
3
User name
snmpadmin1
Context name
None
Auth Protocol
None
Priv Protocol
None