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

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SAN discovery overview
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For Virtual Fabric discovery device requirements, refer to “Virtual Fabrics requirements” on
page 415.
To discover a Virtual Fabric device, you must have the following permissions:
• 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:
• Select the Automatic option to use the default SNMPv3 profile.
The default SNMPv3 profile uses the following attributes:
• Select the Manual option to configure SNMP and complete the following steps.
a. Click the SNMP tab.
FIGURE 23 Add Fabric Discovery dialog box (SNMP - v1 tab)
b. Enter the duration (in seconds) after which the application times out in the Time-out
(sec) field.
c. Enter the number of times to retry the process in the Retries field.
Attribute Value
Timeout 5 seconds
Retries 3
User name snmpadmin1
Context name None
Auth Protocol None
Priv Protocol None