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

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•Supported hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
How this document is organized
This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
• Chapter 1, “Connecting to the Fabric” provides information about getting the fabric connected.
• Chapter 2, “Managed Object Format Files” provides information about the format files.
• Chapter 3, “Profiles and Subprofiles” provides information about the profiles and subprofiles
supported by the Integrated Storage Management Initiative (SMI).
• Chapter 4, “Indications” provides the alert and life-cycle indications of all profiles.
• Appendix A, “Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Error Codes” explains the error codes in
Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent.
The procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some switches but not to others;
this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent 11.1.0,
documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.