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Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001778-01 User Manual

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Brocade SMI Agent User’s Guide

53-1001778-01

Brocade SMI Agent

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SLP (Service Location Protocol) to discover SMI-S profiles

CIM agent management using CIM

Indications: life-cycle indications for fabrics, SANs, nodes, switches, and switch ports; and
alert indications for many fabric events.

Basic support for non-Brocade switches (switches, ports, topology information, and so on)

HTTP and HTTPS protocols

HTTP and HTTPS port configuration

Mutual authentication for clients and indications

Security authorization using native OS access control mechanisms

Provider logging of exceptions, operations, and performance metrics for diagnostic
purposes

Secure SAN fabrics

Secure RPC communication

CIM queries, using WBEM Query Language (WQL)

DMTF CIM Schema v2.19 (final)