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

Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer’s Guide ix
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What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
• Information that is added:
- Fabric and host discovery
- SAN zoning
- Brocade_SAN.ElementName properties
• Information that is changed:
- Access Gateway (AG) and Node Port Initialized Virtualization (NPIV) profile
- Launch In Context (LIC) profile
- Fabric Views subprofile.
- Inter-Fabric Routing profile
For further information about new features and documentation updates for this release, refer to
the release notes.
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keyword
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies command syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is all lowercase.
Notes, cautions, and warnings
The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.