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• IP address or system name of the Brocade SMI-S proxy server you want to discover. See

Adding an IP Range for Scanning

” on page 24 or

Adding a Single IP Address or DNS

Name for Discovery

” on page 25 for more information.

• User Name for the SMI-S proxy server for the Admin account
• Password for the SMI-S proxy server for the Admin account

NOTE:

These instructions specify discovery using the standard port (5988 - non secure or

5989 - secure) for the Brocade SMI-S provider. For example:

https://16.18.236.23 or https://16.18.236.23:5985. Using the standard is

recommended.

Brocade Fabric Access API
• IP address or system name of the Brocade switch you want to discover. See ”

Adding an IP

Range for Scanning

” on page 24 or

Adding a Single IP Address or DNS Name for

Discovery

” on page 25 for more information.

• User Name for the switch
• Password for the switch

Refer to the HP SIM documentation for more details.

Discovery from HP SE
To discover Brocade switches:

1.

Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home on the HP SIM home page menu. The Storage

Essentials home page opens in a separate web browser window. From the Storage Essentials

home page, click Discovery, then click Setup in the upper-right pane of the Storage
Essentials

window.

2.

Select Step 1 at the top of the page.

3.

Click the IP Addresses tab.

4.

Click the Add Address button.

5.

In the IP Address/DNS Name field, do one of the following depending on the provider:
SMI-S

Type the IP address of the proxy server that is running the SMI-S agent. (Some proxy servers

require the following format: http://IPADDRESS.)

Fabric Access API

Type the IP address or DNS name of the Brocade switch you want to discover.

6.

In the User Name field, do one of the following depending on the provider:
SMI-S

Type the user name for the SMI-S proxy server.
This field can be left blank if one or more of the following conditions are fulfilled:
• The element's user name and password are one of the default user names and

passwords.