Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide v11.1.0 (53-1002169-01, May 2011)

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Names
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Names
Various system objects such as a switch, switchport, device, deviceport, and so on are identified by
a WWN. For convenience, these system objects may also be assigned a user-friendly name. The
user-friendly name is generally the ElementName property in the instance. This feature provides
the ability to easily discover the user-friendly names for all the system objects.
The following are the functions:
• Discovering the list of user-friendly names.
• There will be no support for setting of Name for a system object.
• Fabric names will not be reported by the Brocade SMI Agent. This is to avoid the conflict where
the fabric and seed or principal switch share the same WWN.
• All the detached WWN names are supported by the Brocade SMI Agent.
Data model
A new extrinsic method is defined in the Brocade_Agent class.