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

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Switch profile

Differentiation between switches and domains

The following properties are used in CIM_CompterSystem to differentiate a simple switch, a switch

created through VF, a switch created through Inter-Fabric Routing Profile (IFR), differentiating Front

Domain from the Translate Domain, and the physical system that is partitioned.

IdentifyingDescriptions = {"DomainID", "SNIA:DetailedType"};

OtherIdentifyingInfo = {"1", "Front Domain"}; where "1" is DomainID and type is Front Domain.

OtherIdentifyingInfo has the value of DomainID and switch detailed type (Front Domain, Translate

Domain, Virtual Switch or None).

In case of VF setup, OtherIdentifyingInfo additionally has the values of the VF_ID, and

IdentifyingDescriptions properties additionally has the value SNIA:VF_ID as the detailed type.

PortDiscriminator in CIM_FCPort differentiates among ports that support IFR (FCR), internal and

external ports, Virtual Fabrics (VF), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet

(FCoE). This property is applicable for only logical ports. The possible values are given in Table 9.

Physical package, access points, software, blades, and

location subprofiles

The Physical Package, Access Points, Software, Blades, and Location subprofiles model the

product information of a switch, the URL to launch the element manager of a switch, the blades

within the chassis, and the details such as primary system owner name, contact, and location for a

Brocade_Chassis.

Table 10 explains the subprofiles and their functions.

TABLE 9 PortDiscriminator values

No Port PortDiscriminator value

1 FC ports on the FCIP Ethernet port FCIP

2 Virtual FCoE ports inside the Elara internal + FCoE

3 Virtualized node ports in NPIV and Access Gateway NPIV

4 Front and xlate phantom FC ports (except the FF port from

the backbone)

IFR virtual

5 Front phantom FC port from the backbone connected to the

edge switch

IFR

6 ICL ports Chassis

7 Dynamically created FC ports for logical connections in

virtual fabrics

8 All other FC ports (like physical ports) Not Applicable

9 CU ports of Blade Switches Internal

TABLE 10 Switch subprofiles

Subprofiles Description

Physical Package Models information about a storage system's physical

package and optionally about internal subpackages.

Access Points Provides remote access points for management tools.