Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v11.1x (53-1002167-01, May 2011)

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SAN discovery overview

NOTE

Professional Plus edition can discover up to 4 fabrics.

NOTE

Professional Plus edition can discover, but not manage the Backbone chassis.Use the device’s

Element Manager, which can be launched from the Connectivity Map, to manage the device. This

device cannot be used as a Seed switch.

NOTE

Professional edition can discover, but not manage M-EOS devices or the Backbone chassis. Use the

device’s Element Manager, which can be launched from the Connectivity Map, to manage the

device. This device cannot be used as a Seed switch.

FCS policy and seed switches

The Management application requires that the seed switch is the primary Fabric Configuration

Server (FCS) switch at the time of discovery.

Setting time on the fabric will set the time on the primary FCS switch, which will then distribute the

changes to other switches.

When FCS Policy is defined, ConfigDownload is allowed only from the primary FCS switch, but

Management application does not check at the time of download that the switch is the primary FCS

Switch.

NOTE

Switches running in Access Gateway mode cannot be used as the seed switch.

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.