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1. 10 Click the right arrow button to add the SNMPv3 read write credentials to the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list NOTE If the devices use multiple credentials use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used credentials at the top of the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list to make discovery run more efficiently 11 Click Apply to save your work 12 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 13 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 85 53 1002949 01 86 4 IP SNMP credentials Editing SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials To edit a SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community string complete the following steps 1 8 9 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the SNMP tab Select the community string you want to edit in the Selected Read Write Community Strings list and click the left arrow button The selected credentials display in the Add Edit Read Write Community Strings area Enter a unique label to identify the community string in the Display Label field the Add Edit Read Write Community Strings area This label can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Enter the unique community string in the Community Strings field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sens
2. If there are Virtual Fabric capable switches the Management application only uses these switches as recommended seed switches If there are no Virtual Fabric capable switches the Management application uses the list from the second check To change the seed switch complete the following steps 1 Select Discovery gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Select the fabric for which you want to change the seed switch from the Discovered Fabrics table If a device joins or merges with a fabric and fabric tracking is active you must accept changes to the fabric before the new devices display in the Seed Switch dialog box For more information about fabric tracking refer to Fabric tracking on page 231 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 67 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery overview 3 Click Seed Switch If the fabric contains other switches that are running the latest version and are also HTTP reachable from the Management application the Seed Switch dialog box appears Otherwise a message displays that you cannot change the seed switch 4 Select a switch to be the new seed switch from the Seed Switch dialog box You can select only one switch Only switches that are running the latest Fabric OS version in the fabric are displayed The current seed switch is not displayed in this list 5 Click OK on the Seed Switch dialog box If you are not already logged in to the seed switch the Fabric Login di
3. SNMP Version ww Presets Configure for Intrepid 10K User Name snmpadmint Context Name Auth Protocol None X Priv Protocol None FIGURE 11 Add Fabric Discovery dialog box SNMP tab 7 Select the SNMP version from the SNMP Version list e If you selected v1 continue with step 8 e Ifyou select v3 the SNMP tab displays the v3 required parameters Go to step 12 To discover a Virtual Fabric device you must configure SNMPv3 and your SNMP v3 user account must be defined as a Fabric OS switch user Specify the Read option by selecting Default public or Custom If you selected Custom enter the community string in the Custom and Confirm Custom fields 10 Specify the Write option by selecting Default private or Custom 11 If you selected Custom enter the community string in the Custom and Confirm Custom fields Go to step 7 12 If you are configuring a 256 Port director select the Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name check box e If you selected Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name go to step 16 e Ifyou did not select Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name continue with step 13 13 Enter a user name in the User Name field 14 Enter a context name In the Context Name field 15 Select the authorization protocol in the Auth Protocol field Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 55 53 1002949 01 4 SAN discovery overview 16 Enter the authorization password in the Auth Password field e If you selected Config
4. Discovery Status Unmonitored Discovered SNMP com Discovered Not Reachable Seed Swi Discovered Not Reachable Seed Swi Unmonitored Discovered SNMP com Unmonitored Discovered Unmonitored Discovered Unmonitored Discovered Not register Unmonitored Discovered Unmonitored Discovered Unmonitored Discovered Not register Unmonitored Discovered Not register Unmonitored Discovered Seed Switc User ID Community String 10 00 00 05 1E 53 3A 14 admin Community String User D Pa F Add admin admin Delete admin admin admin admin admin admin admin admin admin admin Rediscover a Seed Switch Unmonitor FIGURE 7 Discover Fabrics dialog box 2 Click Add to specify the IP addresses of the devices you want to discover The Add Fabric Discovery dialog box displays Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN discovery overview 4 IP Address BHP SNMP Configuration automatic Manual Fabric Name IP Address User ID Password 1 ED User ID and Password is not required for m EOS switches OK Cancel Help FIGURE 8 Add Fabric Discovery dialog box IP Address tab Enter a name for the fabric in the Fabric Name field Enter an IP address IPv4 or IPv6 for a device in the IP Address field To configure the preferred IP format for the Management applicatio
5. The rediscovered fabric displays in the Discovered Fabrics table 5 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Deleting a fabric To delete a fabric permanently from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Select one or more switches that you want to delete permanently from discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 57 53 1002949 01 4 DCB discovery DCB discovery You can discover DCB devices from both the SAN and IP tabs The following sections details the differences between discovery from the SAN tab or the IP tab DCB discovery from the SAN tab e You can discover DCB devices through fabric discovery e If you discover a fabric that contains DCB devices on the SAN tab the DCB devices display on the IP tab in the Network Objects L2 Topology IP Topology and VLAN Topology views Non DCB devices do not display on the IP tab e f you discover DCB devices through fabric discovery on the SAN tab the DCB devices are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery e If the fabric containing DCB devices is unmonitored on the SAN tab that fabric no longer displays on the SAN tab however the DCB devices continue to display on the IP tab Unmonitored fabrics to not refresh
6. Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 113 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles Editing a discovery schedule To edit a discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the profile you want to edit in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Scheduling tab 4 Select the schedule you want to edit from the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 5 Click the left arrow button to display the schedule in the Add Edit Schedules area 6 Choose one of the following options to change the discovery schedule e To edit the one time discovery schedule refer to Editing a one time discovery schedule on page 114 e To edit the hourly discovery schedule refer to Editing an hourly discovery schedule on page 115 e To edit the daily discovery schedule refer to Editing a daily discovery schedule on page 115 e To edit the weekly discovery schedule refer to Editing a weekly discovery schedule on page 115 e To edit the monthly discovery schedule refer to Editing a monthly discovery schedule on page 115 e To edit the yearly discovery schedule refer to Editing a yearly discovery schedule on page 116 7 Rearrange schedules in the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list by selecting an item in the list and clicking the Up or Down buttons to move it 8 Click Apply to save your changes 9 Click Cl
7. Click Apply to save your work 7 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 8 Click Yes on the confirmation message 94 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP Object identifier filters 4 IP Object identifier filters The object identifier OID filter allows you to select which product types to include or exclude from discovery If you add a third party product OID to the Included Product Types list during discovery and later move it to the Excluded Product Types list note that you will not be able to discover a new device with that product OID However other functionality such as traps fault management statistics performance data collection product polling for health monitoring and so on continue to run as with any other discovered product Including product types To include third party product types in discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab 3 Click the OID Filter tab SNMP Defaut Passwords OlDFiter Preferences Discover third party products Add Edit Product Types Included Product Types 1 3 6 1 4 1 2636 1 1 3 6 1 4 1 4874 anms 1361413 Product Type yv This is a list of MIB Il sysObjectID values of third party devices which should be included in the discovery process If gt the list is empty then any device with valid sysObjectID will be includ
8. Click Close on the Monitor Status dialog box Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Resume monitoring of discovered switches NOTE Monitoring is not supported on Hosts NOTE You can only monitor a switch that is reachable and has valid credentials To monitor a switch complete the following steps 1 Select Discovery gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Select one or more switches that you want to monitor from the Discovered Fabrics table 3 Click Monitor The Monitor Status dialog box displays with the status 4 Click Close on the Monitor Status dialog box Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 65 53 1002949 01 4 SAN Seed switch SAN Seed switch 66 The seed switch must be running a supported Fabric OS version and must be HTTP reachable Sometimes the seed switch is auto selected such as when a fabric segments or when two fabrics merge Other times you are prompted an event is triggered to change the seed switch such as in the following cases e f during fabric discovery the Management application detects that the seed switch is not running a supported version you are prompted to change the seed switch e When one or more switches join the fabric or if the switch firmware is changed on any of the switches in the fabric the Management application checks to make sure that the seed switch is still running a supported vers
9. During fabric discovery you can define an IPv4 address or IPv6 address for the device however the Management application uses the preferred IP format to connect with the device To configure the preferred IP format refer to Configuring the preferred IP format on page 222 NOTE Professional edition can discover only 1 fabric NOTE Professional Plus edition can discover up to 2 560 ports NOTE Professional Plus edition can discover but not manage the Backbone chassis Use the device s Element Manager which can be launched from the Connectivity Map to manage the device This device cannot be used as a Seed switch Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 FCS policy and seed switches SAN discovery overview 4 The Management application requires that the seed switch is the primary Fabric Configuration Server FCS switch at the time of discovery Setting time on the fabric will set the time on the primary FCS switch which will then distribute the changes to other switches When FCS Policy is defined ConfigDownload is allowed only from the primary FCS switch but Management application does not check at the time of download that the switch is the primary FCS Switch NOTE Switches running in Access Gateway mode cannot be used as the seed switch NOTE The Backbone Chassis cannot be used as seed switch to discover and manage edge fabrics You must discover a seed switch from each edge fabric to
10. Figure 13 shows the Discover Setup IP dialog box before the administrator removes a node from the cluster is 23 Discover Setup IP 4 zea c Dscovered GlobalSettings Profiles This tab ists af the discovered P products Products discovery can be started vis Add button here or via a profile Some P products may appear here as a resul of a Fabric discovery Descovered Products Products Name P Address Product Type Serial States State Vendor Model sw 172 26 129 swo 17226 5129 Router Margna Brocade VCSAVDX Add SB sw 17226 5129 swo 17226 5129 Router BKN2506G01S Marginal Onine Brocade VOX 6720 24 lt BR sw 172 26 120 swo 17226 5130 Router BKN2SOSGO0 Marginal Onine Brocade VOX 6720 24 FIGURE 13 Discover Setup IP dialog box before removal of node Figure 14 shows the Discover Setup IP dialog box after the administrator has removed the node with the IP address of 172 26 5 130 from its logical chassis cluster BY Discover Setup IP Oscovered Global Settings Profes This tab ists al the discovered P products Products discovery can be started via Add button here or via a profie Some P products may appear here as a resut of a Fabric discovery Discovered Products Products Name P Address Product Type Serials Status State Vendor Modet BSS swo172 265 129 swo 17226 5129 Router Not Reachabie Brocade VCSIVDX lt sw 172 26 129 sw0 172 286 5129 Router BKN2S06GO1S Ma
11. IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 VM Manager discovery 4 Rediscovering a previously discovered VM manager To return a VM manager to active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Select the VM manager you want to return to active discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Discover Click OK on the confirmation message The rediscovered VM manager displays in the Discovered VM Managers table Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Deleting a VM manager from discovery To delete a host permanently from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Select the VM manager you want to delete permanently from discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh oa a Fw Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Viewing the VM manager discovery state The Management application enables you to view device discovery status through the Discover VM Managers dialog box To view the discovery status of a device complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Right click the Hosts node se
12. The Add VM Manager dialog box displays VM Manager Type YMware vCenter Network Address Port 443 User ID Password vSphere Plug in _ Enable display of network information in vSphere client Cancel Help FIGURE 56 Add VM Manager dialog box Enter the IP address or host name in the Network Address field Enter the VM manager port number in the Port field Enter the VM manager username in the User ID field Enter the VM manager password Password field NO oO FP Ww Select the Enable display of network information in vSphere client check box to enable vSphere client plug in registration Clear to disable vSphere client plug in registration 142 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 VM Manager discovery 4 8 Select the Forward event to vCenter check box to enable event forwarding from the Management application to vCenter Clear to disable event forwarding 9 Click OK on the Add VM Manager dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem AVM manager displays in Discovered VM Managers table with pending status To update the status from pending you must close and reopen the Discover VM Managers dialog box 10 Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh 11 Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Editing a VM manager To edit VM manager discovery complete the following ste
13. and the day or night value is AM or PM 2 Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 3 To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 Editing a weekly discovery schedule To edit a weekly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM 2 Select the day you want discovery to run from the Day of the Week list Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 Editing a monthly discovery schedule To edit a monthly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM 2 Select the day you want discovery to run from the Day of the Month list 1 through 31 Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 4 To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 115 53 1
14. 24 provides a list of MIB support required for third party devices TABLE 24 Required MIB support for third party devices IETF standard MIB name Required MIB object Data collected RFC 1213 MIB II mib 2 system From mib 2 interfaces ifTable for interface mib 2 interfaces ifTable level information mib 2 ip ipAddrTable e ifName ifDescr e ifAlias e ifType e ifMtu e ifSpeed e ifPhysAddress e ifAdminStatus e ifOperStatus e ifLastChange From mib 2 ip ipAddrTable for IP subnet information ipAdEntAddr e ipAdEntNetMask From mib 2 ip ipAddrTable for Layer 3 topology information e ipForwarding RFC 2465 IPv6 MIB ipv6MIBObjects From ipv6MIBObjects and ipv6NetToMediaTable ipv6NetToMediaTable for interface level ipv6MIBObjects ipv6AddrTable information e ifName ifDescr e ifAlias e ifType e ifMtu e ifSpeed e ifPhysAddress e ifAdminStatus e ifOperStatus e ifLastChange From ipv6MIBObjects ipv6AddrTable for IP subnet information ipv6AddrAddress ipv6AddrPfxLength RFC 2863 IF MIB ifMIBObjects ifXTable From ifMIBObjects ifxTable for interface level Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 information e ifName ifDescr ifAlias ifType ifMtu ifSpeed ifPhysAddress ifAdminStatus ifOperStatus ifLastChange 73 4 VDX VCS discovery TABLE 24 Required MIB support for third party devices Continued IETF standard MIB name Required MIB object Data collected RFC 4133
15. 49 Discover Host Adapters dialog box 2 Click Add The Add Host Adapters dialog box displays Discovery Request Name Network Address v Add Host List Remove Import Contact HCM agent CIM server ESXi only Port 34568 User ID Password Cancel Help FIGURE 50 Add Host Adapters dialog box Optional Enter a discovery request name such as Manual 06 12 2009 in the Discovery Request Name field Select Network Address from the list Enter the IP address IPv4 or IPv6 formats or host name in the Network Address field Click Add The IP address or host name of the Host displays in the Host List Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 10 11 12 13 14 Host discovery 4 Configure Host credentials by choosing one of the following options e To configure HCM agent credentials select the HCM agent option Go to step 9 e To configure CIM server credentials select the CIM server ESXi only option Continue with step 8 If you do not need to configure Host credentials skip to step 13 Configure discovery authentication by choosing one of the following options e To configure discovery with authentication select the HTTPS from the Protocol list e To configure discovery without authentication select the HTTP from the Protocol list Enter the port number in the Port field HCM agent default is 34568 CIM server HTTP
16. ENTITY MIB entPhysicalTable For module line card information entAliasMappingTable if available Entire entPhysicalTable Entire entAliasMappingtTable if available RFC 4293 IP MIB mib2 ip ipAddressTable For ip address and subnet information ipAddressAddrType ipAddressAddr ipAddresslflndex ipAddressType ipAddressPrefix VDX VCS discovery 74 NOTE Discovery of a VDX device requires Network OS 2 1 0 or later NOTE Discovery a VCS fabric requires that the seed switch must be running Network OS 2 1 0 or later however the fabric can include members running Network OS 2 0 0 NOTE VDX VCS discovery requires read and write IP Discovery privilege For more information about privileges refer to User Privileges on page 1935 NOTE You must have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account to discover new products For more information about user accounts refer to User accounts on page 241 Network OS devices can only be discovered from the IP tab You can discover a standalone VDX or VCS enabled devices as well as VCS fabrics VDX VCS devices display in the Network Objects L2 Topology Ethernet Fabrics IP Topology and VLAN Topology views VDX device and VCS fabric discovery uses the Read Write Login Prompt credentials for authentication refer to Adding user credentials on page 89 You cannot discover VDX devices using root level privileges If you do not provide discovery credentials the Mana
17. NICES2 10 24 60 204 Router D4SA40E024 Reachable Brocade Netiron 2000 25 ce05100b330 V5 1 00b330 Lab DCM FGS64 DCM FGS64 10 24 60 205 L2 Switch CY49084541 Reachable Brocade FGSFLS STK 48 04 3 01T7e1 FGS04301 Lab DCM FGS64 DCM FGS64 10 24 60 206 L2 Switch CY49084603 Reachable Brocade FGSFLSISTK 48 04 3 01T7e1 FGS04301 Lab DCM FGS64 DCM FGS64 10 24 60 207 L2 Switch CY49084573 Reachable Brocade FGSFLS STK 48 04 3 01T7e1 FGS04301 Lab ServerlronA Serverlron 20 20 20 54 Load Balancer INVALID 1U Reachable Brocade Serverlron 11 12 2 00T403 ASR12200b FIGURE 16 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Discover Setup IP dialog box Add Close Help 81 4 Configuring IP simple discovery Click the Global Settings tab a b To set SNMP credentials refer to IP SNMP credentials on page 83 To configure default user names and passwords refer to Default IP user credentials on page 89 To configure global setting preferences refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 Click the Profiles tab To create a discovery profile refer to IP discovery profiles on page 101 To include and exclude product types refer to IP Object identifier filters on page 95 To include and exclude devices and enable ping sweep refer to Configuring address ranges on page 104 To configure profile preferences refer to Configuring advanced di
18. are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first FIGURE 19 Default Passwords 4 Enter a login prompt user name and password by selecting Read Write Login Prompt from the Credential Type list and completing the following steps SNMP Default Passwords OID Fitter Preferences Credential Type Read Write Login Prompt Y Add edit Login Prompt Login Prompt List Display Label p User ID Y Down Password This is a list of default Login Prompt user id s with passwords that discovery should try when probing network products These are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first FIGURE20 Read Write Login Prompt a Enter a unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters b Enter the user name in the User ID field c Enter the user password in the Password field d Click the right arrow button e If the devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Login Prompt list to make discovery run more efficiently 90 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Default IP user credentials 4 5 Enter an enable prompt user name and password by selecting Read Write Enable Prompt from the Credential
19. be included in discovery Communication to a device will only 4 take place if its address is within the ranges specified and the address is not in the Excluded Addresses Inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they will be probed it merely permits them to be probed FIGURE 27 Include Subnet 2 Enter the IP address in the IP Address field Enter the subnet mask in the Subnet Mask field 4 To exclude an address range using the Subnet format refer to Excluding subnet addresses on page 107 5 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 105 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles Adding IP addresses To add an IP address range IPv4 and IPv6 complete the following steps 1 Select IP Address from the Entry Type list Add Edit IP Addresses Included IP Addresses Entry Type Address Range Y _ Also perform ping sweep A Up P Address P Address adiu These are the address ranges or subnets that should be included in discovery Communication to a device will only 4 take place if its address is within the ranges specified and the address is not in the Excluded Addresses Inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they will be probed it merely permits them to be probed FIGURE 28 Include Address Range 2 Enter the first IP address in the range in the first IP Address field Enter the last IP address in the
20. dialog box To view the discovery status of a device complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Right click a fabric and select Expand All to show all devices in the fabric The Name field displays the discovery status icons in front of the device name The following table illustrates and describes the icons that indicate the current status of the discovered devices TABLE 20 Discovery Status Icons Icon Description Displays when the fabric or host is managed and the management status is okay ov Displays when the switch is managed and the switch management status is not okay A Displays when the fabric switch or host is not managed or not monitored ae The Discovery Status field details the actual status message text which varies depending on the situation The following are samples of actual status messages e Discovered Seed Switch Not registered for SNMP Traps e Discovered Seed Switch Not Manageable Not registered for SNMP Traps e Discovered Current seed switch is not recommended Change Seed Switch Seed Switch Not registered for SNMP Traps e New Discovery Pending Troubleshooting fabric discovery If you encounter discovery problems complete the following checklist to ensure that discovery was set up correctly 1 Verify IP connectivity by issuing a ping command to the switch a Open the command prompt b From the Server type pin
21. discover and manage the edge fabric NOTE The Backbone Chassis can only discover and manage the backbone fabric Backbone Chassis discovery requirements Table 19 details which Backbone Chassis models can be discovered by each version of the Management application and whether or not the model can be discovered as a seed switch or only as a member switch TABLE 19 Backbone Chassis discovery Device Professional Professional Plus Enterprise 8 slot Backbone Chassis as No No Yes seed switch 8 slot Backbone Chassis as Yes for discovery Yes for discovery Yes member switch however it cannot be however it cannot be managed managed 4 slot Backbone Chassis as Yes Yes Yes seed switch 4 slot Backbone Chassis as Yes Yes Yes member switch 16 Gbps 8 slot Backbone No No Yes Chassis as seed switch 16 Gbps 8 slot Backbone Yes for discovery Yes for discovery Yes Chassis as member switch however it cannot be however it cannot be managed managed 16 Gbps 4 slot Backbone Yes Yes Yes Chassis as seed switch 16 Gbps 4 slot Backbone Yes Yes Yes Chassis as member switch Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 49 4 SAN discovery overview Discovering fabrics NOTE Fabric OS devices must be running Fabric OS 5 0 or later NOTE Only one copy of the application should be used to monitor and manage the same devices in a subnet NOTE When accessing additional data from the
22. in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks e Select one of the following protocols from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets f Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 6 Configure the SNMPv3 read only credentials by completing the following steps a Click the SNMPv3 Read Only tab b Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters c Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 123 53 1002949 01 4 124 Individual IP device discovery Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks Select one of the following privacy protocol types from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_
23. list discovery excludes it Click Apply to save your work 8 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Excluding product types To exclude third party product types from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab Click the OID Filter tab 4 Inthe bottom Add Edit Product Types area choose one of the following options e Enter the device s sysObjectID you want to include in the Product Type list e Select an existing device sysObjectID from the Product Type list Table 26 lists the default third party product types 5 Click the right arrow button to add the product type to the Excluded Product Types list The Excluded Product Types list displays the third party device sysObjectiDs to exclude from discovery If a sysObjectID in this list is also in the Included Product Types list discovery excludes it 6 Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 8 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Defining global setting preferences 4 Deleting product types from the list To delete an entry from the Included Product Types or Excluded Product Type list complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays
24. status To view discovery status complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Review the status in the Status column of the Discovery Profiles table Status updates dynamically for any changes Options include the following statuses e Running Discovery is in progress for the profile e Waiting Discovery will start for this profile once the current profile discovery completes e Scheduled Discovery will be run for this profile at the scheduled time e Idle Discovery is not running e Terminating Discovery for the profile is either completing or has been terminated Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Viewing discovery reports To view a report for a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the discovery profile for which you want to view a report in the Discovery Profiles table and click Report The report displays with the following information e Discovery Summary table Provides discovery statistics e Discovery Configuration table Records the discovery parameters e Detail Provides discovery process details Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 119 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles 4 Click Close to close
25. step instructions refer to Configuring a discovery profile on page 101 3 Click Rediscover on the Product List toolbar The Rediscover product dialog box displays If you selected more than 10 devices the client only sends the first 10 devices to the server When rediscovery is complete on the first device and the server returns the status to the client the client sends the next device to the server This process continues until rediscovery is complete The Rediscover product dialog box displays the progress status for each product in the Progress Status column If an error occurs the status displays as Failed and an error message displays in the Description column Click Abort to stop rediscovery for any pending devices Note that rediscovery continues for all devices already sent to the server The Rediscover product dialog box closes when rediscovery is complete for the active rediscovery devices 4 Click OK on the Rediscover product dialog box when rediscovery completes Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 147 53 1002949 01 4 IP Rediscovery Rediscovering a group To rediscover all devices in a group complete the following steps 1 Select the IP tab 2 Select the group you want to rediscover in the Product List You can select one group at a time 3 Click Rediscover on the Product List toolbar The Rediscover product dialog box displays If you selected more than 10 devices the client only sends
26. the User ID field Enter the password for the switch in the Password field Click OK on the Fabric_Name Edit Switches dialog box The Credential Update Status dialog box displays This dialog box displays the status of the change on the selected devices If you selected a logical switch the updated credentials will be applied to the other logical switches in the same chassis e IP Address The IP address of the device e WWN The world wide name of the device e Name The name of the device e FID The fabric ID of the logical switch e Fabric Name The name of the fabric where device is located e Status The status of the update Such as Success Failed or Not Applicable e Reason The reason for the status for Failed or Not Applicable m Failed Not Reachable Not Applicable Credentials not applied Click Close on the Credential Update Status dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN discovery overview 4 Configuring SNMP credentials 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select an IP address from the Discovered Fabrics table 3 Click Edit The Add Fabric Discovery dialog box displays 4 To revert to the default SNMPv3 settings click the Automatic option Go to step 19 To manually configure SNMP select the Manual option Go to step 6 6 Click the SNMP tab PRadress SNUP Target Port Time out sec 5 Retries 3
27. user password in the Password field Click the right arrow button If the devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Login Prompt List to make discovery run more efficiently Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Editing enable super user credentials To edit an enable super user complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab 3 Click the Default Passwords tab 4 Select Enable Super User from the Credential Type list 5 Select the user credential entry you want to edit in the Login Prompt List and click the left arrow button The selected credentials display in the Add edit Login Prompt area 6 Edit the unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Edit the super user password in the Password field Click the right arrow button If the devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Login Prompt List to make discovery run more efficiently 10 Click Apply to save your work 11 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 12 Click Yes on th
28. without authentication select the HTTP from the Protocol list 9 Enter the port number in the Port field HCM agent default is 34568 CIM server HTTPS default is 5989 CIM server HTTP default is 5988 10 Enter your username in the User ID field HCM agent default is admin Leave this field blank for the CIM server 11 Enter your password Password field HCM agent default is password Leave this field blank for the CIM server Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 137 53 1002949 01 4 138 Host discovery 12 Click OK on the Add Host Adapters dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem A Host Group displays in Discovered Hosts table with pending status To update the status from pending you must close and reopen the Discover Host Adapters dialog box 13 Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Editing Host adapter credentials To edit Host credentials complete the following steps 1 2 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays Select the Host in the Discovered Hosts list and click Edit The Edit Host Adapters dialog box displays Port 34568 UserID admin Password eeeeeeee OK Cancel Help FIGURE 54 Edit Host Discovery dialog box Configure Host credentials by choosing one of the following options e To configure HCM agent credentials select the HCM agent op
29. you are receiving too many messages due to lazy polling clear the check box to disable off lazy polling You cannot change the lazy polling interval for IronWare OS or Network OS devices The lazy polling interval is based on the size of your network For IronWare OS devices default values are as follows e Small 2 minutes e Medium 15 minutes e Large 30 minutes For Network OS devices default values are as follows e Small 15 minutes e Medium 30 minutes e Large 60 minutes Click Apply to save your work 4 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 5 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 IP discovery profiles NOTE You cannot configure a discovery profile if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account A discovery profile contains the settings you configure when discovery is run These settings include address range parameters ping sweep parameters SNMP settings default passwords and other settings The Management application is shipped with a default discovery profile named Default You can create more than one discovery profile You can select one discovery profile to run automatically at startup After startup one or more profiles can be run consecutively NOTE The Discovered Products table lists all products discovered through individual product discovery prof
30. 002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles Editing a yearly discovery schedule To edit a yearly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM 2 Click the Date list to select a date from the calendar Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 4 To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences To configure advanced discovery profile preferences complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the profile you want to edit in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Preferences tab Discovered Global Settings Profiles Discovery Status Idle Currently Running Profile Discovery Log Discovery Profiles Profile Name Run on Startup Status Last Start Time Duration Default m A Idle eke Add Duplicate Report ay Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Maximum Threads 20 Discovery Address File discovery_addrs txt Options Perform ping sweeps on all detected subnets y Automatically obtain seed addresses e g netstat or ipconfig Y Search for neighbors o
31. 2 Click the Global Settings tab Click the OID Filter tab 4 Select an entry from the Included Product Types or Excluded Product Type list and click the left arrow button 5 Click Apply to save your work 6 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 7 Click Yes on the confirmation message Defining global setting preferences To define global setting preferences complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab 3 Click the Preferences tab Discovered Global Settings Profiles IP Global Settings SNMP Default Passwords f OID Filter Preferences Discovery Log Size 2500 Ping Type ICMP Ping TCP Ping TCP Ping Port 23 Ping Retries 0 Adaptive Discovery V Enable lazy polling V Enable event triggered polling Options Y Enable password validation on rediscover V Perform address to name lookups e g with DNS v Preter loopback addresses for products _ Import SSL Certificate and Key Discard all old topology information for each product discovered Retain lost links 168 hours 1 minimum FIGURE 24 Preferences tab 4 Enter a value from 32 through 10000 for the number of live discovery log messages to store on the server in the Discovery Log Size field The default is 2500 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 97 53 1002949 01 98 4 Defining global settin
32. AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 7 Configure the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read write credentials by completing the following steps a Click the SNMPv1 v2c Read Write tab Network Address Credentials Try only configured Discovery SNMP settings Also try these settings fe SNMP v3 Read Oniy SNMP v1 v2c ReadhArite SNMP y1iv2c Read Only gt Community String OK Cancel Help FIGURE 42 SNMPv1i v2c credentials Enter the community string in the Community field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks NOTE If you do not enter a community string in the field discovery uses the public and private community strings to probe the devices 8 Configure the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read only credentials by completing the following steps a b Click the SNMPv1 v2c Read Only tab Enter the community string in the Community field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks NOTE If you do not enter a co
33. Chapter Discovery 4 In this chapter SAN distoyery OVE W aos auia iim obi bee A aa edinedelaln ed oma 48 DOB SSCS ss passe eedyiesbens POAT eE AE RAER AOE E 58 Viewing Wie Tabie dISCOVeIy SIA sreci cbaksonndi cieusoracepiats gaa 59 Troubleshooting TAGE CISGOVEIY zero eka nace Sideline od alee eee eee 59 SAN Fabric MONKOMNE ccavsGeeve Geter teree bars evar eeeewee NEE 62 SAN DOR SWI steal hia ee piren panre shew eee igkuiaue dake ees 66 OIF SCO IY II eos ir tp wane eB acoraig alee bl Steeda eee Rigby eke 68 S VDA NUS MISCOVEY saarcdareedace Sars ESEA EEEE 74 e Logical chassis cluster mode diSCovery 00 0c eee eee ee eee 77 HyperEdge stack CISCO OI oaair aa E E a ERRE N RE 80 Contiguring IP Profle distwery 24 cca tsccatae sears E EAE 81 Conniguring IP Simple di COVEY conc ciccecerg tiiri mesni a 82 OUP INE ONS cle re Wi cies zsat A dad aiale ka kaelacas 83 Default IP user CIedentidlS rsdsaceestns hace Gears esata ARR 89 oP Object identifier Mers sret ache tse rnr pabut EErEE EEEE NEKE DRENE 95 Defining global setting preferentes cs ace cae ee ee ee 97 IP discovery ONES o c 4 cne aude Rebatdetare ANEO REES ENESE 101 Individual IP device diStov y os cc asic vice ese eee Pa Gaer ase ee SRE rA 121 E ee CSCO e ig She th crete E E E al ache ml E E E ene 131 VM Manager giscovery isa vsdse reese Er ONETO AE OIN EE es cals eee ne 141 IP REUIBCOVERY 6 4 0460 Geta aehuis ei evediuigeiraeeivsete
34. Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Edit the user name in the User ID field Edit the user password in the Password field Click the right arrow button If the devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Login Prompt List to make discovery run more efficiently Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Editing enable prompt user credentials To edit an enable prompt user name and password complete the following steps 1 Ol B WN Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the Default Passwords tab Select Read Write Enable Prompt from the Credential Type list Select the user credential entry you want to edit in the Login Prompt List and click the left arrow button The selected credentials display in the Add edit Login Prompt area Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 10 11 12 13 Default IP user credentials 4 Edit the unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Edit the user name in the User ID field Edit the
35. Enter your password Password field HCM agent default is password Leave this field blank for the CIM server 13 Click OK on the Add Host Adapters dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem A Host Group displays in Discovered Hosts table with pending status To update the status from pending you must close and reopen the Discover Host Adapters dialog box 14 Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Importing Hosts from a Fabric To discover a Host from a discovered fabric complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays 2 Click Add The Add Host Adapters dialog box displays Discovery Request Name Network Address v Add Host List Remove Import Contact HCM agent L CIM server ESXi only Port 34568 User ID Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 52 Add Host Adapters dialog box Enter a discovery request name such as MyFabric in the Discovery Request Name field 4 Select Hosts in Fabrics from the list Select All fabrics or an individual fabric from the list Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 135 53 1002949 01 4 Host discovery 10 11 12 13 Click Add All hosts which are part of a managed fabric and have a registered host name display in the list If no host with a registered host name exists an
36. Name Port Config Credentials _ Read Only Credentials Login Prompt User Name Enable Prompt Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 48 Read Only credentials a Change the unique user name in the Login Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters b Change the password in the Login Prompt Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks c Change the unique user name in the Enable Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters d Change the password in the Enable Prompt Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 12 Click OK on the Edit product dialog box The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays with the updated IP device in the Discovered Products table 13 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 130 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Host discovery 4 Deleting IP devices from discovery To delete one or more IP devices from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displ
37. S default is 5989 CIM server HTTP default is 5988 Enter your username in the User ID field HCM agent default is admin Leave this field blank for the CIM server Enter your password Password field HCM agent default is password Leave this field blank for the CIM server Repeat step 5 through step 11 for each Host you want to discover Click OK on the Add Host Adapters dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem A Host Group displays in Discovered Hosts table with pending status To update the status from pending you must close and reopen the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Importing Hosts from a CSV file To discover Hosts by importing a CSV file complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays 2 Click Add The Add Host Adapters dialog box displays Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 133 53 1002949 01 4 134 Host discovery Discovery Request Name Network Address X Add Host List Remove Import Contact HCM agent CIM server ESXi only Port 34568 User ID Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 51 Add Host Adapters dialog box Enter a discovery request name such as MyFabric in the Discovery Request Name field Click Import The Open dialog box displays Brows
38. SAN Inventory or SAN Status widgets it takes a few moments to populate newly discovered products in the SAN Products Status dialog box where Status is the section of the widget you selected To discover specific IP addresses or subnets complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Use the Add button to discover a Fabric Discovered Fabrics Name E amp 10 00 00 05 16 35 91 DE dem 4100 42 E amp 10 00 00 05 1E A7 6B A sw2 E g 10 00 00 05 1E A7 6B A switch_9 E amp 10 00 00 05 1 90 53 7 3 dcm 4100 44 dcm 200e 24 3 dem 4100 43 X ASD X dem 5000 3 X FVT 3 dcm 5000 2 X dcfm_pulsar174 dcm 5000 11 IP Address 10 24 50 42 10 24 45 22 10 24 45 22 10 24 50 44 10 24 50 24 10 24 50 43 10 24 50 36 10 24 50 3 10 24 50 5 10 24 50 2 10 24 50 8 10 24 50 11 Previously Discovered Addresses IP Address Type 10 24 45 76 Switch 10 24 45 101 Switch 10 24 45 52 Switch 10 24 45 24 Switch Jwwn 10 00 00 05 1E 35 91 08 10 00 00 05 1E A7 6B 3A 10 00 00 05 1E A7 6B 39 10 00 00 05 1E 35 9C 86 10 00 00 05 1E 02 2E 22 10 00 00 05 1E 35 D6 40 10 00 00 05 1E 53 7D CA 10 00 00 05 1E 90 48 B3 10 00 00 05 1E 90 4F F8 10 00 00 05 1E 90 49 D4 10 00 00 05 1E 90 53 4D 10 00 00 05 1E 90 53 7E Name wwn MF2 B4900 76 10 00 00 05 1E 05 2A 09 admin LF1 7500 101 10 00 00 05 1 37 0D 69 admin MF2 7500 521 10 00 00 05 1E 38 A0 1B admin mace241
39. Type list and completing the following steps SNMP Default Passwords OID Fiter Preferences Credential Type Read rite Login Prompt Y Add edit Login Prompt Login Prompt List Display Label A Up Y Down User ID Password This is a list of default Login Prompt user id s with passwords that discovery should try when probing network products These are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first FIGURE21 Read Write Enable Prompt a Enter a unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters b Enter the user name in the User ID field c Enter the user password in the Password field d Click the right arrow button e Ifthe devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Enable Prompt list to make discovery run more efficiently 6 Enter a super user password by selecting Enable Super User from the Credential Type list and completing the following steps SNMP Detaut Passwords OD Fiter Preferences Credential Type Enable Super User Ai Add edit Login Prompt Login Prompt List Display Label Alp W Down Password This is a list of default Login Prompt user id s with passwords that discovery should try when probing network products T
40. ables Any neighbor IP address is added to the list of candidate IP addresses to probe Discovery adds any IP address from the LLDP FDP and CDP tables to the list of candidate IP addresses Discovery also tries to determine the host name of the device by requesting the Management application server operating system to perform various mappings of the device IP addresses to host names and host names back to IP addresses using whatever mechanism the operating system uses typically Domain Name Server to determine the host name for a device If discovery determines that the device is reachable and manageable then discovery uses the full set of SNMP queries to collect asset information from the device Discovery then adds or updates the device in the database and sends notification to other applications Rediscovery updates can occur using any of the following methods e Lazy polling e Adaptive discovery triggered by snmp traps e Manual rediscovery refer to IP Rediscovery on page 146 Configuration requirements Before configuring discovery obtain the following information e SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read write community strings or SNMPv3 read write credentials for the devices to be included in discovery Make sure that devices you want to manage have the SNMP credentials configured For more information refer to IP SNMP credentials on page 83 e Device IP addresses and subnets to probe during discovery For more information
41. alog box displays If you are successfully authenticated the fabric is deleted from the Management application without purging historical data and the same fabric is rediscovered with the new seed switch 6 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box IP discovery overview NOTE Discovery only displays products that are assigned to your area of responsibility AOR For more information about user accounts refer to Areas of responsibility on page 250 NOTE You must have the Discover Setup IP privilege to configure and run discovery For more information about privileges refer to User Privileges on page 1935 NOTE You must have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account to discover new products For more information about user accounts refer to User accounts on page 241 NOTE IP discovery requires Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP or Telnet support on the device to determine device reachability NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery Discovery is the method that the Management application uses to find data networking devices on the network When the Management application discovers devices it finds all IP addresses on a device and stores them in the Management application database The Management application uses the primary address of a product to communicate with the product The p
42. anges take effect after application restart message Remove a device from active discovery To remove a fabric from active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The managed count exceeded message displays Managed counts that have been exceeded display with a light red background Managed counts that are within the grace count limit display with a pale yellow background 2 Click OK on the message The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 3 Select the fabric you want to delete from active discovery in the Discovered Fabrics table 4 Click Delete 5 Click OK on the confirmation message The deleted fabric displays in the Previously Discovered Addresses table 6 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Troubleshooting fabric discovery 4 Problem Resolution Deleting a fabric Before you can delete a fabric permanently from discovery you must remove it from active discovery Refer to Remove a device from active discovery To delete a fabric permanently from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The managed count exceeded message displays Managed counts that have been exceeded display with a light red background Managed counts that are within the grace count limit display with a pale yellow background 2 Click OK on the message The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 3 Select one or more s
43. ault IP user credentials on page 89 To configure global setting preferences refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 102 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 9 Click Apply to save your changes 10 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 11 Click Yes on the confirmation message Duplicating a discovery profile NOTE You cannot duplicate a discovery profile if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery To duplicate a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the profile you want to copy and click Duplicate A new row named Copy of profile_name displays in the Discovery Profiles table 4 Click Copy of profile_name in the Profile Name field to enter a unique name for the profile This name can be from 1 through 255 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 5 Click the Address Ranges tab to configure address ranges for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Configuring address ranges on page 104 or Editing address ranges on page 108 6 Click the Scheduling tab to con
44. ays 2 Select the IP devices you want to remove from discovery in the Discovered Products table Select multiple devices by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one device NOTE You cannot delete an active member from a VCS fabric 3 Click Delete Host discovery The Management application enables you to discover individual hosts import a group of Host from a comma separated values CSV file or import all hosts from discovered fabrics or VM managers NOTE Host discovery requires HCM Agent 2 0 or later NOTE SMI and WMI discovery are not supported Discovering Hosts by Network address or host name To discover a Host by Network address or host name complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 131 53 1002949 01 4 132 Host discovery Use the Add button to discover groups of Brocade host adapters Adapters with Pending discovery status will not be updated and cannot be modified until you close this dialog and reopen Discovered Hosts Name Network Addr Discovery Status User ID E amp Hosts Add E amp d hbas 2 10 24 48 66 HCM Agent Connection Failed admin 10 24 48 92 HCM Agent Collection Failed admin E hba2 oA 10 24 21 222 10 24 21 222 Discovered admin 4 Previously Discovered Addresses a Network Address Name user ID Close Help FIGURE
45. can be configured from the principal node The other VCS mode is fabric cluster mode in which the data path for nodes is distributed but the configuration path is not distributed and each node keeps its configuration database independently The generic term VCS mode applies to both fabric cluster mode and logical chassis mode unless otherwise stated The State column of the Discover Setup IP Dialog shown in Figure 12 is applicable only to nodes that are members of a logical chassis cluster The possible node states are described later in this section FIGURE 12 Discovery Setup IP dialog box with node state for logical chassis cluster Logical chassis cluster discovery includes the following behavior e Manual or profile based discovery is the same as for a cluster in fabric cluster mode Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 77 53 1002949 01 4 Logical chassis cluster mode discovery e Uses the IP address of any member of the logical chassis cluster for discovery e Sets the cluster IP address to the IP address of the principal node NOTE You can change the principal node for the cluster by running the logical chassis principal priority command from the NOS prompt For more information refer to the Network OS Command Reference e Principal switch failover does not occur if the cluster is unstable for example if the chassis had been disabled for maintenance because refresh collection will fail e If the cluster is
46. ces Add Edit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles a Up gt Y Down Frequency Yealy v Suspend Schedule Time hh mm 09 v 120 AMY Date September 16 FIGURE 38 Scheduling tab Yearly Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM Click the Date list to select a date from the calendar Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling discovery on page 109 Suspending a discovery schedule To suspend a discovery profile schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab Select the profile for which you want to suspend a discovery schedule in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Scheduling tab 4 Select the schedule you want to suspend in the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list and click the left arrow button 5 Click the Suspend check box and click the right arrow button to return the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list The suspended schedule displays at the bottom of the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 6 Click Apply to save your changes Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 8 Click Yes on the confirmation message
47. ck Unmonitor Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Stop monitoring of discovered switches NOTE You cannot stop monitoring the seed switch When you stop monitoring a switch the Management application performs the following actions Stops all data collection for the switch Unregisters as SNMP trap recipient from the switch For Virtual Fabric switches only unregister as SNMP trap recipient when all Virtual Fabric switches of that chassis are unmonitored Unregisters as SYSLOG recipient from the switch For Virtual Fabric switches only unregister as SYSLOG recipient when all Virtual Fabric switches of that chassis are unmonitored Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 63 53 1002949 01 64 4 SAN Fabric monitoring Does not perform any scheduled or on demand operations other than monitor on the switch Removes the switch from product list topology and all feature dialog boxes Displays the switch in the Discovery Fabrics dialog box with the unmonitored icon and prefixes Unmonitored to the discovery status The following details the behavior that occurs when you unmonitor a switch If you unmonitor a switch the switch does not display in the topology but end devices connected to the switch continue to display in the product list and topology with no connections If you segment an unmonitored switch you cannot discover it separately until you accept changes in the original fabric If yo
48. configured with a virtual IP address before its discovery and then discovery is initiated the cluster IP displays the virtual IP address instead of the IP address of the principal node e If the cluster is configured with a virtual IP address after it is discovered by the Management application the virtual IP address is collected and saved in the database for the next lazy polling or next adaptive collection e If another switch becomes the principal switch the Management application sets the cluster IP address to that of the new principal switch at the next lazy polling or next adaptive collection e The State column in the Discover Setup IP dialog shown in Figure 12 applies only to nodes that are in logical chassis mode Possible states are Online A node that is currently connected and operational On discovery only online members are considered active cluster members The Management application server collects the device port and LAG information of active cluster members The the Management application client displays the member node as a cluster member in the Ethernet Fabrics topology Offline A cluster member node that cannot be reached by the primary cluster node On refresh if the member was an active member of a cluster and is now offline the member is marked as missing If the member is not online after three consecutive short ticks auto discovery gets initiated If auto chasing fails the member remains miss
49. covery gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select one or more switches in the same fabric that you want to stop monitoring from the Discovered Fabrics table NOTE You cannot select switches in different fabrics Click Unmonitor The Unmonitor Status dialog box displays with the following details e IP Address The IP address of the switch e WWN The WWN of the switch e Name The name of the switch e FID The FID of the switch Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN Fabric monitoring 4 e Fabric Name The name of the associated fabric e Status Whether the unmonitor was successful or failed e Reason The reason for the failure Blank for Success 4 Click Close on the Unmonitor Status dialog box 5 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Resume monitoring of discovered fabrics NOTE Monitoring is not supported on Hosts To monitor a fabric and all associated devices complete the following steps 1 Select Discovery gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select the fabric you want to monitor from the Discovered Fabrics table Click Monitor The Monitor Status dialog box displays with the status NOTE If there is a unmonitored switch in the fabric it stays unmonitored The monitor function fails if the fabric has user defined Admin Domains created or if the fabric is merged with another fabric already in the monitored state
50. covery state The Management application enables you to view device discovery status through the Discover Host Adapters dialog box To view the discovery status of a device complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays Right click the Hosts node select Expand All to show all devices The Name field displays the discovery status icons in front of the device name The following table illustrates and describes the icons that indicate the current status of the discovered devices TABLE 27 Discovery Status Icons Icon Description Displays when the fabric or host is managed and the management status is okay Displays when the fabric or host is not managed a The Discovery Status field details the actual status message text which varies depending on the situation The following are samples of actual status messages e Discovered e New Discovery Pending e Created host structure differs from discovered host Discovery ignored e Brocade HBA Discovery Failed HCM Agent connection failed e HCM Agent collection failed e CIM Server Authentication failed e CIM Server connection failed Troubleshooting host discovery If you encounter discovery problems complete the following checklist to ensure that discovery was set up correctly For more complete information about troubleshooting adapters refer to the Adapters Troubleshooting Guide 1 Verify IP con
51. data for devices contained in the fabric If you rediscover the DCB device in an unmonitored fabric from the IP tab rediscovery fails e If the DCB device segments out of a fabric on the SAN tab the DCB device continues to display on the IP tab until you accept changes to the fabric on the SAN tab which deletes the device from the fabric e Ifa DCB device joins a fabric on the SAN tab the DCB device displays on the IP tab as soon as it displays on the SAN tab e If you delete a DCB device from fabric discovery the DCB device no longer displays on the IP tab e If you discover a DCB device through fabric discovery you cannot delete the device from IP discovery DCB discovery from the IP tab e You can discover DCB devices through profile or individual product discovery e If you discover a DCB device from the IP tab the DCB device does not display on the SAN tab e If you discover a DCB switch through IP discovery the DCB device displays as a fabric on the IP tab Only DCB switches display in the fabric Non DCB devices do not display in the fabric on the IP tab e ifthe DCB switch is in AG mode discovery fails e You can only discover chassis based DCB switches using the IP address not the CP address 58 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Viewing the fabric discovery state 4 Viewing the fabric discovery state The Management application enables you to view device status through the Discover Setup
52. ddress the Management server uses the preferred address If a product does not have the preferred address type the Management server uses the other IP type If the Management application is not IPv6 capable the Management application cannot discover products with an IPv6 address directly as a seed switch The Management application can discover products with an IPv6 address indirectly when the seed switch has an IPv4 address Standalone discovery e When you discover a VDX device that is not VCS enabled it displays as an individual L2 DCB device e When you enable VCS mode on a discovered VDX device after rediscovery the VDX displays as a VCS fabric VCS fabric discovery NOTE Professional edition can only discover a VCS fabric with one member NOTE IP Base edition can only discover a VCS fabric with two members e When you discover a VDX device that is VCS enabled and is not connected to other VCS enabled devices it displays as a VCS fabric with one member e When you discover a VDX device that is VCS enabled and is connected to other VCS enabled devices it displays as a VCS fabric with all connected VCS enabled devices as members of the fabric Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 75 53 1002949 01 4 VDX VCS discovery When you discover any member in a VCS fabric through individual IP device discovery that member acts as the seed switch and discovers all other members in the VCS fabric The principal switch of th
53. different devices may have different credentials discovery can store many sets of credentials to make sure that the correct credentials are available when contacting a device Two types of credentials can be used for discovery SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read write community strings and SNMPv3 read write credentials If SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is enabled on a device use read write community strings If SNMPv3 is enabled on a device use SNMPv3 read write credentials When a device is contacted discovery tries the credentials in the order that they are listed on the SNMP tab on the Global Setting tab of the Discover Setup IP dialog box until it finds one that matches the credentials on the device Discovery tries the SNMPv3 credentials first If none of the SNMPv3 credentials work discovery tries the SNMPvi and SNMPv2c credentials Discovery must detect the read only credentials to proceed to the read write credentials If discovery does not detect any read write credential the device may still be discovered however all write operations through SNMP such as configure device do not execute properly When a match is found the device becomes discovered to the Management application and its properties are saved in the database so that it can be managed by the Management application Devices not discovered through profile based discovery can be added individually For more information refer to Adding an IP device to discovery on page 121 Adding SNMP
54. e collection duration is one hour and so on VM Manager discovery requirements e Discovery of a vCenter server refer to Discovering a VM manager on page 141 step 4 and step 5 requires a vCenter user with read only or read write privilege on the vCenter server node and all objects in the inventory below the vCenter server e Enabling the vSphere client plug in registration refer to Discovering a VM manager on page 141 step 6 requires a vCenter user with at minimum the following read write privileges on the vCenter server node and all objects in the inventory below the vCenter server Extension gt Register extension Extension gt Unregister extension Extension gt Update extension Discovering a VM manager Before you discover a VM Manager make sure you meet the discovery requirements refer to VM Manager discovery requirements on page 141 To discover a VM manager complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 141 53 1002949 01 4 VM Manager discovery Use the Add button to discover a new VM Manager Discovered VM Managers Name Discovery Status Network Address Type Version Add Refresh add J Previously Discovered Addresses a Network Address Type Name user D Close Help FIGURE 55 Discover VM Managers dialog box 2 Click Add
55. e Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Select the Host you want to exclude in the Discovered VM Managers list and click Exclude 3 Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Including a host in VM manager discovery To include host in VM manager discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays Select a Host you want to include in the Discovered VM Managers list and click Include Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Removing a VM manager from active discovery If you decide you no longer want the Management application to discover and monitor a specific VM manager you can delete it from active discovery Deleting a VM manager also deletes the data on the server both system collected and user defined data except for user assigned names for the device port device node and device enclosure information To delete a VM manager from active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Select the VM manager you want to delete from active discovery in the Discovered VM Managers table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message The deleted VM manager displays in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN
56. e File Download dialog box displays 5 Click Save The Save As dialog box displays 6 Browse to the file location where you want to save the report Click Save 120 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Individual IP device discovery 4 8 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 9 Click Yes on the confirmation message Viewing the discovery log The discovery log displays the status of the current discovery activity To configure the discovery log size refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 To view the discovery log complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab 3 Click Discovery Log The Discovery Status Log dialog box displays with a list of discovery status messages If discovery is running the discovery status messages automatically display and update dynamically in the dialog box with the latest message at the top 4 Click Close to close the Discovery Status Log dialog box Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Individual IP device discovery Simple discovery discovers the device with a specific IP address It is triggered by device configuration changes on SNMP traps certain configuration deployments to a device and adding device or rediscovering a device Adding an IP device to discovery NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric disc
57. e VCS fabric displays as a VCS fabric The VCS fabric members display as individual L2 DCB devices When you discover multiple members in a VCS fabric through profile discovery the principal switch acts as the seed switch and discovers all other members not included in profile discovery in the VCS fabric The principal switch of the VCS fabric displays as a VCS fabric The VCS fabric members display as individual L2 DCB devices VCS fabric rediscovery Rediscovery is the refreshing of the asset data for the selected product Rediscovery of a VCS enabled device or VCS fabric uses the following behavior If you select a fabric seed switch rediscovery refreshes the fabric membership information If you select a fabric member rediscovery refreshes the fabric member s asset data If you select a missing fabric member rediscovery results in the discovery of new fabric or discovery of a standalone switch dependent on what happened to the disconnected member You can also delete missing fabric members from discovery refer to Deleting IP devices from discovery on page 131 NOTE If you do not have the All IP Products AOR in your user account you cannot rediscover missing fabric members Seed switch failover The Management application uses the seed switch to discover other members in the VCS fabric When you discover devices through individual discovery the seed switch is the first member you discover in the VCS fabric When yo
58. e confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 93 53 1002949 01 4 Default IP user credentials Reordering user credentials in the list Discovery tries the user credentials in order until one set of credentials is found that works so place the most common ones first To rearrange the user credentials complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the Default Passwords tab Select one of the following password types from the Credential Type list e Read Write Login Prompt e Read Write Enable Prompt e Enable Super User 5 Select an entry in the Login Prompt List and use the Up and Down buttons to rearrange the entries 6 Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 8 Click Yes on the confirmation message Deleting user credentials from the list To delete an entry from the SNMPv3 read write credentials or SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community strings lists complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the Default Passwords tab Select one of the following password types from the Credential Type list e Read Write Login Prompt e Read Write Enable Prompt e Enable Super User 5 Select an entry in the Login Prompt List and click the left arrow button 6
59. e the following steps 1 2 136 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays Click Add The Add Host Adapters dialog box displays Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Host discovery 4 Discovery Request Name Network Address v Add Host List Remove Import Contact HCM agent CIM server ESXi only Port 34568 User ID Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 53 Add Host Adapters dialog box 3 Enter a discovery request name Such as MyVMManager in the Discovery Request Name field Select Hosts from VM Manager from the import by list Select All VM or an individual VM from the list Click Add All hosts which are part of a discovered VM manager and have a registered host name display in the list If no host with a registered host name exists an error message displays Click OK to close the error message 7 Configure Host credentials by choosing one of the following options e To configure HCM agent credentials select the HCM agent option Go to step 9 e To configure CIM server credentials select the CIM server ESXi only option Continue with step 8 If you do not need to configure Host credentials skip to step 12 8 Configure discovery authentication by choosing one of the following options e To configure discovery with authentication select the HTTPS from the Protocol list e To configure discovery
60. e to the CSV file location The CSV file must meet the following requirements e Comma separated IP address or host names e No commas within the values e No escaping supported For example XX XX XXX XXX XX XX X XXX computername company com Click Open The CSV file is imported to the Add Host Adapters dialog box During import duplicate values are automatically dropped When import is complete the imported values display in the Host List If the file cannot be imported an error displays Verify the imported values in the Host List Configure Host credentials by choosing one of the following options e To configure HCM agent credentials select the HCM agent option Go to step 10 e To configure CIM server credentials select the CIM server ESXi only option Continue with step If you do not need to configure Host credentials skip to step 13 Configure discovery authentication by choosing one of the following options e To configure discovery with authentication select the HTTPS from the Protocol list e To configure discovery without authentication select the HTTP from the Protocol list Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Host discovery 4 10 Enter the port number in the Port field HCM agent default is 34568 CIM server HTTPS default is 5989 CIM server HTTP default is 5988 11 Enter your username in the User ID field HCM agent default is admin Leave this field blank for the CIM server 12
61. ect the profile you want to edit in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Scheduling tab 8 Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add Edit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles _ Suspend Schedule A Up gt YW Down Frequency One Time v Time hh mm o9 127 AMY 4 Date September 16 2010 7 FIGURE 32 Scheduling tab Choose one of the following options to configure the frequency at which discovery runs for the profile e To configure discovery to run only once refer to Configuring a one time discovery schedule on page 110 e To configure hourly discovery refer to Configuring an hourly discovery schedule on page 111 e To configure daily discovery refer to Configuring a daily discovery schedule on page 111 e To configure weekly discovery refer to Configuring a weekly discovery schedule on page 112 e To configure monthly discovery refer to Configuring a monthly discovery schedule on page 112 e To configure yearly discovery refer to Configuring a yearly discovery schedule on page 113 Rearrange schedules in the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list by selecting an item in the list and clicking the Up or Down buttons to move it Click Apply to save your changes Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Configuring a one time discovery schedule To configure a one time discovery schedule complete the follow
62. ed in the discovery process If the sysObjectID in this list is also in the Excluded Product Type list it will not be included in the discovery process lt 4 Add Edit Product Types Excluded Product Types Product Type lt This is a list of MIB Il sysObjectID values of devices which should be excluded in the discovery process even if it is in gt Included Product Type list The list is applied to both Brocade and Third Party devices FIGURE 23 OID Filter tab 4 Select the Discover third party products check box to include third party devices in discovery Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 95 53 1002949 01 4 96 IP Object identifier filters 5 Inthe top Add Edit Product Types area choose one of the following options e Enter the device s sysObjectID you want to include in the Product Type list e Select an existing device sysObjectID from the Product Type list Table 26 lists the default third party product types TABLE 26 Default third party product types Product sysObjectID Vendor 1 3 6 1 4 1 9 Cisco 1 3 6 1 4 1 4874 Juniper 1 3 6 1 4 1 2636 1 Juniper 6 Click the right arrow button to add the product type to the Included Product Types list The Included Product Types list displays the third party device sysObjectIDs to include in discovery If this list is empty discovery includes any device with a valid sysObjectID If a sysObjectID in this list is also in the Excluded Product Types
63. edentials are not applicable for DCB devices a Click the SNMPv3 Read Write tab IP Address 10 24 60 203 SNMP v3 Readi tite SNMP v3 Read Only SNMP viNv2e ReadMe SNMP viWv2e Read Oniy _ Readirite Credentials Authentication Password Port Config Credentials Read Oniy Credentials Authentication Type MDS X Authentication User ID Privacy Protocol None idi Privacy Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 44 SNMPv3 credentials Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Individual IP device discovery 4 e Select one of the following privacy protocol types from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets f Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characte
64. erEdge stacking management the master active and standby units must be the ICX 6610 device Management of the stacking device is through the master unit only This includes SNMP sFlow syslog tftp telnet and ssh traffic The management port on each member unit except the master unit of an HpyerEdge stack is not visible and does not function Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Configuring IP profile discovery NOTE Configuring IP profile discovery 4 You must have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account to discover new products For more information about user accounts refer to User accounts on page 241 To configure profile discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays NOTE The Discovered Products table lists all products discovered through individual product discovery profile based discovery as well as Fabric discovery from the SAN tab NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery Discovered Global Settings Profiles Discovered Products Product Name IP Address Product Type Serial Status Vendor Model Port Count Firmware Build Label Location DCM TI24X 2 DCM TI24X 2 10 24 60 203 L2 Switch BFF2337E03C Reachable Brocade Turbolron 28 04 1 00a TIS04100a Lab DCM NICES2 DCM
65. error message displays Click OK to close the error message Configure Host credentials by choosing one of the following options e To configure HCM agent credentials select the HCM agent option Go to step 9 e To configure CIM server credentials select the CIM server ESXi only option Continue with step 8 If you do not need to configure Host credentials skip to step 12 Configure discovery authentication by choosing one of the following options e To configure discovery with authentication select the HTTPS from the Protocol list e To configure discovery without authentication select the HTTP from the Protocol list Enter the port number in the Port field HCM agent default is 34568 CIM server HTTPS default is 5989 CIM server HTTP default is 5988 Enter your username in the User ID field HCM agent default is admin Leave this field blank for the CIM server Enter your password Password field HCM agent default is password Leave this field blank for the CIM server Click OK on the Add Host Adapters dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem A Host Group displays in Discovered Hosts table with pending status To update the status from pending you must close and reopen the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Importing Hosts from a VM manager To discover Hosts from a discovered VM manager complet
66. es unreachable or there is no valid seed switch the fabric becomes unmanageable When the seed switch cannot be reached for three consecutive fabric refresh cycles the Management application looks for another valid seed switch in the fabric verifies that it can be reached and has valid credentials If the seed switch meets this criteria the Management application automatically fails over to the recommended seed switch Note that it is possible that auto failover may occur to a seed switch not running the latest firmware version In this instance any functionality which has a direct dependency on the firmware version of the seed switch is affected and restricted by the failover seed switch capabilities Changing the seed switch When you change the seed switch for a fabric the Management application performs the following checks in the order they are listed e Identifies all switches and removes those running unsupported firmware version e Identifies which of the remaining switches are running the latest firmware versions e Filters out those switches that are not reachable e identifies which switches are Virtual Fabric enabled switches Fabric OS only If there are Virtual Fabric enabled switches the Management application only uses these switches as recommended seed switches If there are no Virtual Fabric enabled switches continue with the next check e Identifies which switches are Virtual Fabric capable devices Fabric OS only
67. f probed products V Probe already discovered products Close Help FIGURE 39 Preferences tab 4 Enter the maximum number from 1 through 100 of simultaneous connections to devices allowed by discovery in the Maximum Threads field 116 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Enter the name of the file that contains specific IP addresses to probe in the Discovery Address File field The file Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses This file must be located in the Install_Home conf discovery ip folder on the server The default file is the discovery_addrs txt file however you can create additional files To create a discovery address file refer to Creating a discovery address file on page 117 Select the Perform Ping sweeps on all detected subnets check box to systematically ping all IP addresses in any subnet detected through the normal discovery process Select the Automatically obtain seed addresses check box to use netstat or ipconfig to capture a starting candidate IP address with which to begin the discovery process Select the Search for neighbors of probed products check box to read all ARP LLDP FDP and CDP tables to find neighboring devices Select the Probe already discovered products check box to rediscover devices previously discovered 10 Click Apply to save your changes 11 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 12 Click Yes on the c
68. f the following options e Select the SNMPv3 read write credentials you want to delete in the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list and click the left arrow button e Select the SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community string you want to delete in the Selected Read Write Community Strings list and click the left arrow button Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message 88 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Default IP user credentials 4 Default IP user credentials The Management application uses default user names and passwords to access devices when contacting these devices through the command line interface CLI on the network You can enter a list of default names and passwords in the Management application before running discovery Discovery uses this list to contact devices to determine the correct user name and password for the device The first time discovery contacts a device the Management application enters the default names and passwords for the device into the Management application database This feature saves you the trouble of entering authentication passwords for every newly discovered device NOTE Discovery does not remove an invalid user name or password from the device information unless it is able to replace it with a valid one The Management application groups default user names and passwords by the fol
69. field 4 To include an address range using the Address Range format refer to Adding IP addresses on page 106 5 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 107 53 1002949 01 4 108 IP discovery profiles Editing address ranges NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery L 10 11 12 13 14 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab Select the profile you want to edit in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Address Ranges tab To edit an included address range select the address range you want to edit in the Included IP Addresses list Click the left arrow button to display the address range details in the top Add Edit IP Addresses area Edit the included address range by choosing one of the following options e To edit the included addresses using the CIDR subnet format refer to Editing CIDR subnet addresses on page 109 e To edit the included addresses using the subnet format refer to Editing subnet addresses on page 109 e To edit the included addresses using the address range format refer to Editing IP addresses on page 109 Select the Also perform ping sweep check box to perform ping sweep on the address range To edi
70. figure a discovery schedule for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Scheduling discovery on page 109 7 Click the Preferences tab to configure preferences for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences on page 116 8 Click the Global Settings tab To set SNMP credentials refer to IP SNMP credentials on page 83 To configure default user names and passwords refer to Default IP user credentials on page 89 To configure global setting preferences refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 9 Click Apply to save your changes 10 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 11 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 103 53 1002949 01 4 104 IP discovery profiles Configuring address ranges NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery To include and exclude addresses from profile discovery complete the following steps 1 8 9 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab Select the profile you want to edit in the Discovery Profiles table and click the Address Ranges tab Include an address range by choosing one of the following options e To include an address range using the CIDR subnet f
71. g CIDR subnet addresses To add CIDR subnet addresses IPv4 and IPv6 complete the following steps 1 Select CIDR Subnet from the Entry Type list 5 Add Edit IP Addresses Included IP Addresses Entry Type CIDR Subnet lt v _ Also perform ping sweep A Up IP Address Subnet Mask Bit adabini i These are the address ranges or subnets that should be included in discovery Communication to a device will only 4 take place if its address is within the ranges specified and the address is not in the Excluded Addresses Inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they will be probed it merely permits them to be probed FIGURE 26 Include CIDR Subnet Enter the IP address in the IP Address field Enter the number of subnet mask bits in the Subnet Mask Bits field For IPv4 the number of subnet mask bits is from O through 32 For IPv6 the number of subnet mask bits is from O through128 To exclude an address range using the CIDR Subnet format refer to Excluding CIDR subnet addresses on page 106 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Adding subnet addresses To add subnet addresses IPv4 only complete the following steps 1 Select Subnet from the Entry Type list Add Edit IP Addresses Included IP Addresses Entry Type Subnet _ Also perform ping sweep A Up P Address Subnet Mask ile These are the address ranges or subnets that should
72. g Switch_IP_Address 2 Enter the IP address of the device in a browser to verify the http reachability For example http 10 1 1 11 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 59 53 1002949 01 4 Troubleshooting fabric discovery Managed count exceeded troubleshooting The following section states possible issues and the recommended solution when you exceed your managed count limits Problem If you exceed your managed count limit the Management application displays a licensed exceeded message on the topology 60 Resolution Perform one or more of the following actions to e Changing your network size e Remove a device from active discovery Deleting a fabric Changing your network size If you are at the maximum network size for your license contact your preferred network provider To change the size of your network complete the following steps 1 Select Server gt Options The Options dialog box displays Select Memory Allocation in the Category list to change the network size Select the size of the SAN small medium or large you need Click OK on the confirmation message Click Apply or OK to save your work aBWN NOTE Changes to this option take effect after an application restart NOTE You can only restart the server using the Server Management Console Start gt Programs gt Management_Application_Name 12 X X gt Server Management Console 6 Click OK on the ch
73. g box 14 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 87 53 1002949 01 4 IP SNMP credentials Reordering SNMP credentials in the list Discovery probes the network for devices according to the order in the list of SNMPv3 read write credentials or SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community strings Discovery uses the first item to find devices that are associated with those credentials or community strings then continues down the list Therefore place the most commonly used credentials or community strings first To rearrange the SNMPv3 read write credentials or SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community strings lists complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the SNMP tab Select an entry in the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials or Selected Read Write Community Strings list and use the Up and Down buttons to rearrange the entries Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Deleting SNMP credentials from the list To delete an entry from the SNMPv3 read write credentials or SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community strings lists complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the SNMP tab Choose one o
74. g preferences 10 11 Select one of the following Ping Type options e ICMP Ping default Go to step 7 e TCP Ping Continue with step 6 Enter the TCP port number from 1 through 65536 in the TCP Ping Port field The default is 23 Enter the number of times from O through 10 to ping the device when ping is unsuccessful in the Ping Retries field The default is O Select the Enable lazy polling check box to periodically rediscover all devices in the database NOTE This setting cannot be disabled for DCB switches The lazy polling function sends login and log messages to the Master Log and the switch console If you are receiving too many messages due to lazy polling clear the check box to disable off lazy polling You cannot change the lazy polling interval for lronWare OS or Network OS devices The lazy polling interval is based on the size of your network For lronWare OS devices default values are as follows e Small 2 minutes e Medium 15 minutes e Large 30 minutes For Network OS devices default values are as follows e Small 15 minutes e Medium 30 minutes e Large 60 minutes Select the Enable event triggered polling check box to enable adaptive discovery on the predefined SNMP traps NOTE This setting cannot be disabled for DCB switches NOTE Network OS devices must be running version 4 0 or later to enable this setting NOTE For Network OS devices adaptive discovery is also performed fo
75. gement application uses the default switch credentials for the admin account You can edit the credentials for multiple VDX VCS devices when they all have same firmware version refer to Editing IP device discovery on page 125 VCS fabrics display in a tree structure with member nodes When you discover a new fabric and initial discovery is complete the fabric automatically tracks the fabric members Subsequently if a member is removed from the fabric a minus icon displays See table below next to the product icon TABLE 25 6 Device Removed Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 VDX VCS discovery 4 VCS devices use the following to determine reachability e Reachable The VDX VCS product is online and is accessible by ICMP Netconf and SNMP therefore it is reachable e Degraded Link The VDX VCS product is not accessible by one of the following ICMP Netconf or SNMP e Not Reachable The VDX VCS product is offline and is not accessible by any of the following ICMP Netconf and SNMP The following sections detail the VDX VCS discovery behavior Network OS discovery IP address format You can discover Network OS devices using an IPv4 or IPv6 address To configure the preferred IP format for the Management application server to connect with Network OS devices refer to Configuring the preferred IP format on page 222 During discovery if the product has both an IPv4 and IPv6 a
76. gh 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 6 Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 7 Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA 8 Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 9 Select one of the following protocols from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets 10 Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 11 Click the right arrow button to add the SNMPv3 read write credentials to the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list NOTE If the devices use multiple credentials use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used credentials at the top of the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list to make discovery run more efficiently 12 Click Apply to save your work 13 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialo
77. he fabric is deleted but the rediscovery operation fails for example if the new seed switch becomes unreachable using HTTP then you must rediscover the fabric again If you rediscover the fabric using a switch that was present in the fabric before the change seed switch operation was performed then all of the historical and configuration data is restored to the rediscovered fabric If you rediscover the fabric using a switch that was added to the fabric after the fabric was deleted then the historical and configuration data is lost If multiple users try to change the seed switch of the same fabric simultaneously only the first change seed switch request is executed subsequent requests that are initiated before the first request completes will fail If another user changes the seed switch of a fabric you are monitoring and if you have provided login credentials for only that seed switch in the fabric then you lose connection to the seed switch Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN Seed switch 4 Seed switch requirements The seed switch must be running Fabric OS 5 0 or later For a complete list of all supported Fabric OS hardware refer to Supported hardware and software on page lvi Seed switch failover The Management application collects fabric wide data Such as fabric membership connectivity name server information zoning and so on using the seed switch Therefore when a seed switch becom
78. hese are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first FIGURE22 Enable Super User a Enter a unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field This label can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters b Enter the super user password in the Password field c Click the right arrow button d Ifthe devices use multiple user names and passwords use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used at the top of the Enable Super User list to make discovery run more efficiently 7 Click Apply to save your work Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 91 53 1002949 01 92 4 8 9 Default IP user credentials Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Editing login prompt user credentials To edit a login prompt user name and password complete the following steps 1 Or 0 S 10 11 12 13 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the Default Passwords tab Select Read Write Login Prompt from the Credential Type list Select the user credential entry you want to edit in the Login Prompt List and click the left arrow button The selected credentials display in the Add edit Login Prompt area Edit the unique label to identify the credentials in the
79. iWite Credentials Port Contig Credentials Community String lececece OK Cancel Help FIGURE 45 SNMPv1 v2c settings Enter the unique community string in the Community field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks NOTE If you do not enter a community string in the field discovery uses the public and private community strings to probe the devices 8 Change the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read only credentials by completing the following steps a b Click the SNMPv1 v2c Read Only tab Enter the unique community string in the Community field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks NOTE If you do not enter a community string in the field discovery uses the public and private community strings to probe the devices 9 Change the Read Write credentials by completing the following steps a Click the Read Write Credentials tab IP Address 10 24 60 203 SNMP v3 Readirite SNMP v3 Read Only Super User Password SNMP v14 2c ReadiWrite Login Prompt User Name SNMP v1 v2c Read Only ReadiWtite Credentials Login Prompt Password _ Port Contig Credentials Read Only Credentials Enable Prompt User Name Enable Prompt Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 46 Read Write crede
80. ical switch has been deleted logical switch is not reachable or the Fabric ID was changed To find a logical switch right click the physical chassis within the Chassis Group in the Product List and select Logical Switches All logical switches on the selected physical chassis display in a list SAN Fabric monitoring NOTE Monitoring is not supported on Hosts The upper limit to the number of HBA and CNA ports that can be monitored at the same time is 32 The same upper limit applies if switch ports and HBA ports are combined You can select switch ports and adapter ports from a maximum of ten devices Fabric monitoring enables discovery of and data collection for the specified fabric and all associated devices The Management application enables you to view fabric monitoring status through the Discover Fabrics dialog box The following table illustrates and describes the icons that indicate the current status of the discovered switches TABLE 21 Monitor Icons Icon Description Displays when the switch is managed and the switch management status is okay Displays when the switch is managed and the switch management status is not okay As Displays when the fabric or switch is not managed or not monitored x For Professional and Professional Plus the default monitoring interval is 120 seconds minimum interval is 120 seconds Table 22 details the default and minimum monitoring intervals used to query the monitored
81. idate IP addresses to probe 1 Discovery runs one of the following programs e On Windows systems use ipconfig to find the default gateway e On UNIX systems use netstat r n to determine the seed routers and extract IP addresses from the program output Discovery adds these IP addresses to the list of candidate IP addresses 2 Discovery queries the database to retrieve the IP address for each previously discovered device and adds these IP addresses to the list of candidate IP addresses Discovery adds the IP addresses from the IP address file to the list of candidate addresses 4 As the discovery cycle proceeds discovery adds addresses from the ping sweep address ranges to the list of candidate addresses 5 Discovery searches for neighbors of a discovered device using the information located in the device s SNMP Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP Foundry Discovery Protocol FDP Cisco Discovery Protocol CDP and Address Resolution Protocol ARP tables To search for neighbors you must configure discovery to search for neighbor addresses refer to Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences on page 116 After creating the list of candidate IP addresses discovery uses multiple threads to probe devices You can define how many threads can be used at one time Threads operate in parallel so communication to multiple devices occurs simultaneously Each thread takes one address from the list of candidate IP addre
82. ile based discovery as well as Fabric discovery from the SAN tab NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery Configuring a discovery profile NOTE You cannot configure a discovery profile if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery To configure a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 101 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles Discovered Global Settings Protiles Discovery Status Idle Currently Running Profile Discovery Log Discovery Profiles Profile Name Run on Startup Status Last Start Time Duration Default m Idle Start Add Duplicate Report ay Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add Edit IP Addresses Included IP Addresses Entry Type CIDR Subnet v C Also perform ping sweep a Up IP Address g Subnet Mask Bit gt adi nl 4 These are the address ranges or subnets that should be included in discovery Communication to a device will only take place if its address is within the ranges specified and the address is not in the Excluded Addres
83. ing Rejoining A node that is in the process of rejoining its cluster On refresh if the member was an active member of the cluster and is now rejoining then the member is marked as missing If the member is not online after three consecutive short ticks auto discovery gets initiated If auto chasing fails the member remains missing Replacing A node that is being replaced On refresh if a member node is in the Replacing state the member is shown as missing Ifthe member is in the Replacing state for more than three consecutive short ticks auto discovery gets initiated If auto chasing fails the member remains missing 78 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Logical chassis cluster mode discovery 4 Administratively removing a node from a logical chassis cluster You can remove a node from a logical chassis cluster by using the Network OS command line interface For instructions refer to the Network OS Administrator s Guide and the Network OS Command Reference versions 4 0 or later Once the node is removed all configurations corresponding to that node are removed from the cluster configuration database The deleted node gets rebooted automatically and boots in VCS disabled mode The deleted node also gets marked as missing in the cluster The Management application initiates auto discovery immediately and the deleted node gets rediscovered in its current state As an example
84. ing steps 1 Select One Time from the Frequency list Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add dit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles L Suspend Schedule A Up gt W Down Frequency One Time w Time hh mm 09 v 127 AMY 4 Date September 16 2010 FIGURE 33 Scheduling tab One Time Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 2 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM Click the Date list to select a date from the calendar Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling discovery on page 109 Configuring an hourly discovery schedule To configure an hourly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Hourly from the Frequency list Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add Edit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles A Up Suspend Schedule YW Down Frequency Hourly ow 4 Minutes past the hour 12 7 FIGURE 34 Scheduling tab Hourly 2 Select the minute past the hour you want discovery to run from the Minutes past the hour list Where the minute value is from OO through 59 3 To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling disc
85. ion If it is not then you are prompted to either upgrade the firmware on the seed switch or to change the seed switch to a switch running a supported firmware If a fabric of switches running only Fabric OS 5 X or later is created due to segmentation the Management application continues to monitor that fabric but if any switch with a later Fabric OS version joins the fabric an event is triggered informing you that the seed switch is not running the latest firmware and you should change to the seed switch running the highest firmware ATTENTION If a seed switch is segmented or merged historical data such as offline zone DB profile and reports and Firmware Download Profile can be lost Segmentation of a seed switch does not result in formation of a new fabric If a merge occurs the historical data is lost only from the second fabric You can change the seed switch as long as the following conditions are met e The new seed switch is HTTP reachable from the Management application e The new seed switch is a primary FCS e The new seed switch is running the latest Fabric OS version in the fabric This operation preserves historical and configuration data such as performance monitoring and user customized data for the selected fabric ATTENTION If the seed switch firmware is downgraded from Fabric OS 5 2 X to an earlier version then all RBAC related data is discarded from the Management application If during the seed switch change t
86. ion event for the fabric as well as each switch in the fabric For example Fabric information collection was successful for the fabric Fabric_Name 4 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box 56 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN discovery overview 4 Removing a fabric from active discovery If you decide you no longer want the Management application to discover and monitor a specific fabric you can delete it from active discovery Deleting a fabric also deletes the fabric data on the server both system collected and user defined data except for user assigned names for the device port device node and device enclosure information To delete a fabric from active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select the fabric you want to delete from active discovery in the Discovered Fabrics table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message The deleted fabric displays in the Previously Discovered Addresses table 5 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Rediscovering a previously discovered fabric To return a fabric to active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Select the fabric you want to return to active discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Discover Click OK on the confirmation message
87. iting address ranges on page 108 Editing subnet addresses To edit the subnet address IPv4 only range complete the following steps 1 Change the IP address in the IP Address field 2 Change the subnet mask in the Subnet Mask field 3 To finish editing the address ranges return to Editing address ranges on page 108 Editing IP addresses To edit the IP address range IPv4 and IPv6 complete the following steps 1 Change the first IP address in the range in the first IP Address field 2 Change the last IP address in the range in the second IP Address field 3 To finish editing the address ranges return to Editing address ranges on page 108 Scheduling discovery You can create multiple schedules to a maximum of 32 for each profile When it is time for a schedule to run discovery handles schedules in the following manner e f discovery is already running for the profile the scheduled discovery drops e f discovery is already running for a different profile the scheduled discovery is queued Once all discovery jobs in the queue finish the scheduled discovery runs e f no discovery is running the scheduled discovery starts To schedule a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Profiles tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 109 53 1002949 01 4 110 IP discovery profiles 3 Sel
88. itive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks Click the right arrow button to add the read write community string to the Selected Read Write Community Strings list NOTE If the devices use multiple community strings use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used community string at the top of the Selected Read Write Community Strings list to make discovery run more efficiently NOTE If the Selected Read Write Community Strings list does not contain any community strings the Management application uses the public and private community strings Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 10 Click Yes on the confirmation message Editing SNMPv3 credentials To edit SNMPv3 read write credentials complete the following steps 1 2 3 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the SNMP tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP SNMP credentials 4 4 Select the SNMPv3 credentials you want to edit in the Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials list and click the left arrow button The selected credentials display in the Add Edit SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials area 5 Enter a unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field of the Add Edit SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials area This label can be from 1 throu
89. itive and allows all printable ASCII characters The string displays as asterisks Click the right arrow button to add the read write community string to the Selected Read Write Community Strings list NOTE Discovery uses the read write community string to detect both SNMP read and SNMP write community strings If the devices use multiple community strings use the Up or Down buttons to place the most commonly used community string at the top of the Selected Read Write Community Strings list to make discovery run more efficiently NOTE If the Selected Read Write Community Strings list does not contain any community strings the Management application uses the public and private community strings Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Adding SNMPv3 credentials To add SNMPv3 read write credentials complete the following steps 1 2 3 SNMP Default Passwords OID Fitter Preferences Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the SNMP tab Add Edit SNMPv3 Read Vrite Credentials Selected SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials Display Label A Up Authentication Type MDS O SHA W Down Authentication User ID Authentication Password gt Erran ERa None CBC DES CFB AES 128 4 Privacy Password This is a list of SNMPv3 read write crede
90. lect Expand All to show all devices The Discovery Status field details the actual status message text which varies depending on the situation The following are samples of actual VMM status messages e Active e Failed Not reachable e Failed Authentication failure Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 145 53 1002949 01 4 IP Rediscovery The following are samples of actual ESX host status messages e Active e Discovery pending e Excluded e Conflict Existing Host lt hostname gt Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Troubleshooting VM manager discovery If you encounter discovery problems complete the following checklist to ensure that discovery was set up correctly Verify IP connectivity by issuing a ping command to the switch 1 Open the command prompt 2 From the Server type ping Device _IP_ Address IP Rediscovery 146 When you change device configuration using the CLI or Web Management Interface the updated configuration information does not automatically update in the Management application You must rediscover devices to update configuration information For VCS devices if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account you can not rediscover missing fabric members When you rediscover an IP device the Management application captures and stores all changes to its configu
91. lowing password types e Read Write Login Prompt The login prompt the device uses when logging in by Telnet or CLI to the device e Read Write Enable Prompt The enable prompt the device uses in CLI mode to go to device enable mode e Enable Super User The super user enable password configured on the device for Telnet login You can configure the super user enable password by using the enable super user password CLI command The super user enable password can be used to authenticate users with the super user privilege configured on the device You can define more than one password for each password type Discovery uses the passwords in the order they are listed when it probes the devices Adding user credentials To add default user names and passwords complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab 3 Click the Default Passwords tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 89 53 1002949 01 4 Default IP user credentials Discovered Global Settings Profiles IP Global Settings SNMP I Default Passwords OID Filter Preferences Credential Type Readh rite Login Prompt Y Add edit Login Prompt Login Prompt List Display Label A User ID W Down Password This is a list of default Login Prompt user id s with passwords that discovery should try when probing network products These
92. mation To delete a host from active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays Select the host you want to delete from active discovery in the Discovered Hosts table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message The deleted host displays in the Previously Discovered Addresses table 5 Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Rediscovering a previously discovered fabric To return a host to active discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays 2 Select the host you want to return to active discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Discover Click OK on the confirmation message The rediscovered host displays in the Discovered Hosts table 5 Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Deleting a host adapter from discovery To delete a host permanently from discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Host Adapters The Discover Host Adapters dialog box displays 2 Select the host you want to delete permanently from discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table Click Delete Click OK on the confirmation message Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 139 53 1002949 01 4 140 Host discovery Viewing the host dis
93. mmunity string in the field discovery uses the public and private community strings to probe the devices Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Individual IP device discovery 4 9 Configure the Read Write credentials by completing the following steps a Click the Read Write Credentials tab IP Address 10 24 60 203 SNMP v3 ReadiWrite __ SNMP v3 Read Only _SNMP v1 Wv2c ReadWrite Login Prompt User Name SNMP vinv2e Read Oniy ReadiVrite Credentials Login Prompt Password Port Config Credentials Read Only Credentials Enable Prompt Password Super User Password Enable Prompt User Name OK Cancel Help FIGURE 43 Read Write credentials b Enter the unique user name in the Login Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters c Enter the password in the Login Prompt Password field The password can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password displays as asterisks Not applicable to DCB devices 10 Click OK on the Add product dialog box The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays with the added IP device in the Discovered Products table 11 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Editing IP device discovery NOTE Although you can configure third party product password settings through discovery
94. more than 10 devices the client only sends the first 10 devices to the server When rediscovery is complete on the first device and the server returns the status to the client the client sends the next device to the server This process continues until rediscovery is complete The Rediscover product dialog box displays the progress status for each product in the Progress Status column If an error occurs the status displays as Failed and an error message displays in the Description column Click Abort to stop rediscovery for any pending devices Note that rediscovery continues for all devices already sent to the server The Rediscover product dialog box closes when rediscovery is complete for the active rediscovery devices 4 Click OK on the Rediscover product dialog box when rediscovery completes Rediscovering IP devices from the Product List For VCS devices if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account you can not rediscover missing fabric members To rediscover one or more IP devices from the Product List complete the following steps 1 Select the IP tab 2 Select the IP devices you want to rediscover in the Product List Select multiple devices by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one device You can select up to 32 devices for rediscovery If you select to rediscover a multiple devices you should configure a discovery profile to run in the background For step by
95. more than 550 IP products the Management application automatically turns off event based collection To restart event based collection complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Reduce the managed count by completing the following steps a Select the IP devices you want to remove from discovery in the Discovered Products table Select multiple devices by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one device NOTE You cannot delete an active member from a VCS fabric b Click Delete 3 Turn on event based collection by completing the following steps a Click the Global Settings tab b Click the Preferences tab c Select the Enable lazy polling check box to periodically rediscover all devices in the database NOTE This settings cannot be disabled for DCB switches Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 99 53 1002949 01 4 100 Configuring event based collection e Select the Enable event triggered polling check box to enable adaptive discovery on the predefined SNMP traps NOTE This settings cannot be disabled for DCB switches NOTE Network OS devices must be running version 4 0 or later to enable this setting NOTE For Network OS devices adaptive discovery is also performed for Syslog events The lazy polling function sends login and log messages to the Master Log and the switch console If
96. n server to connect with Fabric OS devices refer to Configuring the preferred IP format on page 222 If the product has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address the Management server uses the preferred address If a product does not have the preferred address type the Management server uses the other IP type For seed switch requirements refer to Seed switch requirements on page 67 NOTE The Backbone Chassis cannot be used as seed switch to discover and manage edge fabrics You must discover a seed switch from each edge fabric to discover and manage the edge fabric NOTE The Backbone Chassis can only discover and manage the backbone fabric NOTE Professional and Professional Plus editions cannot manage the Backbone Chassis NOTE Professional edition can discover only 1 fabric NOTE Professional Plus edition can discover up to 2 560 ports NOTE For Admin Domain AD devices you must enable the AD configuration on the switch before discovery otherwise end devices associated with the user configure AD display as missing in the topology In addition the Fabric OS switch must have Physical AD visibility Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 51 53 1002949 01 4 SAN discovery overview For Virtual Fabric discovery device requirements refer to Virtual Fabrics requirements on page 834 To discover a Virtual Fabric device you must have the following permissions e Switch user account with Chassis Admin role pe
97. nectivity by issuing a ping command to the host a Open the command prompt b From the Server type ping Host_IP_Address Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 VM Manager discovery 4 2 Ifthe host is responding to ping but discovery still fails verify that HCM agent is up or not by browsing to the following URL https Host_IP_Address 34568 JSONRPCServiceApp JSON RPC If HCM agent is running and reachable you should receive a prompt of credentials and then show an Error 500 No Reason result page 3 Verify that firewall port 34568 is open There are firewall issues with the HCM Agent on Windows 2008 and VMware systems When installing the driver package on these systems open TCP IP port 34568 to allow agent communication with the Management application e For VMware use the following commands to open port 34568 m esxcfg firewall o 34568 tcp in https a esxcfg firewall o 34568 udp out https e For Windows use Windows Firewall and Advanced Service WFAS to open port 34568 VM Manager discovery The Management application enables you to discover VM managers VM Manager discovery requires vCenter Server 4 0 or later NOTE vCenter discovery time is dynamically determined based on the number of hosts being managed by the vCenter For every 50 hosts managed the vCenter collection period increases 30 minutes For 0 50 hosts managed the collection duration is 30 minutes for 50 100 hosts managed th
98. ntials Enter the password in the Super User Password field The password can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Not applicable to DCB devices Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Individual IP device discovery 4 c Change the unique user name in the Login Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters d Change the password in the Login Prompt Password field The password can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks e Change the unique user name in the Enable Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Not applicable to DCB devices f Change the password in the Enable Prompt Password field The password can be from 1 through 200 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks Not applicable to DCB devices 10 Change the Port Config credentials by completing the following steps NOTE These credentials are not applicable for DCB VDX or VCS devices a Click the Port Config Credentials tab IP Address 10 24 60 203 SNMP viWv2c ReadWrite Login Prompt Password SNMP 12c Read Oniy Readivri
99. ntials that discovery should try when probing network devices These are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first FIGURE 18 SNMPv3 credentials Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP SNMP credentials 4 4 Enter a unique label to identify the credentials in the Display Label field of the Add Edit SNMPv3 Read Write Credentials area This label can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 5 Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 6 Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA 7 Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password displays as asterisks 8 Select one of the following protocols from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets 9 Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password displays as asterisks
100. onfirmation message Deleting a discovery profile You can delete any of the discovery profiles except the Default profile To delete a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Oy OV a Qe NS Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab Select the profile you want to delete in the Discovery Profiles table and click Delete Click Apply to save your changes Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Creating a discovery address file You can configure multiple profiles to use different discovery address files You can configure multiple profiles to use the same discovery address file To create a discovery address file complete the following steps 1 2 Open a text editor Such as Notepad Enter the IP addresses you want to include in discovery discovery_addrs txt Discovery reads this file at the start of each discovery cycle Discovery probes the IP addresses in HO HH Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 117 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles this file as long as they are not excluded by any scoping restrictions 10 1 2 54 10 55 2 68 Select File gt Save Browse to the nstal _Home conf discovery ip folder This file must be saved to the Install_Home conf discovery ip folder on the server Enter a name for the file Click Save Starting disc
101. ormat refer to Adding CIDR subnet addresses on page 105 e To include an address range using the subnet format refer to Adding subnet addresses on page 105 e To include an address range using the address range format refer to Adding IP addresses on page 106 e To include all addresses select all addresses from the Entry Type list Select the Also perform ping sweep check box to perform ping sweep on the address range Click the right arrow button to add the address range to the Included IP Addresses list Exclude an address range by choosing one of the following options e To exclude an address range using the CIDR subnet format refer to Excluding CIDR subnet addresses on page 106 e To exclude an address range using the subnet format refer to Excluding subnet addresses on page 107 e To exclude an address range using the address range format refer to Excluding IP addresses on page 107 NOTE DCB products discovered through Fabric discovery on the SAN tab cannot be excluded NOTE To exclude a VCS fabric you must add all members of the VCS fabric to the exclude list Click the right arrow button to add the address range to the Excluded IP Addresses list Click Apply to save your changes 10 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 11 Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Addin
102. ose to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 10 Click Yes on the confirmation message Editing a one time discovery schedule To edit a one time discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM 2 Click the Date list to select a date from the calendar Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 4 To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 114 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Editing an hourly discovery schedule To edit an hourly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the minute past the hour you want discovery to run from the Minutes past the Hour list Where the minute value is from OO through 59 2 Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 3 To finish editing the discovery schedule return to Editing a discovery schedule on page 114 Editing a daily discovery schedule To edit a daily discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59
103. ou selected Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name go to step 7 e If you did not select Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name continue with step n n Select the privacy protocol in the Priv Protocol field o Enter the privacy password in the Priv Password field 7 Click OK on the Add Fabric Discovery dialog box If the seed switch is partitioned the Undiscovered Seed Switches dialog box displays a Select the Select check box for each undiscovered seed switch to discover their fabrics b Click OK on the Undiscovered Seed Switches dialog box Repeat step 2 through step 7 for each fabric you want to discover Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 53 1002949 01 54 4 SAN discovery overview Editing the password for multiple devices You can only edit password for Fabric OS devices in the same fabric To edit the password for multiple devices within the same fabric complete the following steps f Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select multiple devices within the same fabric from the Discovered Fabrics table Click Edit The Fabric_Name Edit Switches dialog box displays IP Address SNMP Configuration Fabric Name IP Address User ID Password 1 i User ID and Password is not required for m EOS switches OK Cancel Help FIGURE 10 Edit Switches dialog box Enter the user ID for the switch in
104. overy on page 109 Configuring a daily discovery schedule To configure a daily discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Daily from the Frequency list Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add dit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles A Up _ Suspend Schedule D F Down Frequency Daily iad 4 Time hh mm 09 127 AMY FIGURE 35 Scheduling tab Daily 2 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list 4 To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling discovery on page 109 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 111 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery profiles Configuring a weekly discovery schedule To configure a weekly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Weekly from the Frequency list Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences AddEdit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles _ Suspend Schedule Alp gt W Down Frequency Weekly v Time hh mm 09 v 127 AMY 4 Day of the week Thursday v FIGURE 36 Scheduling tab Weekly 2 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day o
105. overy from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery NOTE You cannot discover new products if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account To add an individual IP device to discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays NOTE The Discovered Products table lists all products discovered through individual product discovery profile based discovery as well as Fabric discovery from the SAN tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 121 53 1002949 01 4 Individual IP device discovery 2 Click Add The Add product dialog box displays Network Address Credentials Try only configured Discovery SNMP settings Also try these settings User ID Authentication Protocol Authentication Password Privacy Protocol Privacy Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 40 Add product dialog box 3 Choose one of the following options e Enter the IP address IPv4 or IPv6 of the IP device in the Network Address field e Enter the host name or DNS name up to 64 characters of the IP device in the Network Address field NOTE The Management application does not validate the Network address until you save your work 4 Select one of the following options e Try only configured Discovery SNMP settings Select to use the SNMP settings configured in the Global Setting
106. overy manually To start discovery for a profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the discovery profile on which you want to start discovery in the Discovery Profiles table and click Start 4 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Starting discovery automatically To run discovery for a profile at startup complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the check box in the Run on Startup column for the discovery profile in the Discovery Profiles table NOTE You can only configure one profile to run discovery on startup Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message 118 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Stopping discovery To stop discovery for a profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the discovery profile on which you want to stop discovery in the Discovery Profiles table and click Stop 4 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Viewing discovery
107. ps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers The Discover VM Managers dialog box displays 2 Select the Host in the Discovered VM Managers list and click Edit The Edit VM Manager dialog box displays VM Manager Type YMware vCenter Network Address Port 443 User ID Password vSphere Plug in Enable display of network information in vSphere client OK Cancel Help FIGURE 57 Edit VM Manager dialog box Change the VM manager port number in the Port field Enter the VM manager username in the User ID field Enter the VM manager user password Password field aa Fw Select the Enable display of network information in vSphere client check box to enable vSphere client plug in registration Clear to disable vSphere client plug in registration 7 Select the Forward event to vCenter check box to enable event forwarding from the Management application to vCenter Clear to disable event forwarding Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 143 53 1002949 01 4 144 VM Manager discovery 8 Click OK on the Edit VM Manager dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem 9 Refresh the Discover VM Managers list by clicking Refresh 10 Click Close on the Discover VM Managers dialog box Excluding a host from VM manager discovery To exclude host from VM manager discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt VM Managers Th
108. r Syslog events Select the Enable password validation on rediscover check box to enable CLI user credential validation when rediscovering devices Select the Perform address to name lookups e g with DNS check box to configure discovery to use the local DNS server for address to name resolution Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 12 13 14 15 16 17 Configuring event based collection 4 Select the Prefer loopback addresses for products check box to enable discovery to choose an IP address associated with a router loopback interface to be the router primary IP address Clear the check box to configure discovery to select the original IP address used to discover the device Select the Import SSL Certificate and Key check box to enable discovery to download and synchronize certificates from SSL capable Application products Choose one of the following options e Select the Discard all old topology information for each product discovered option to delete all existing device topology data when running discovery e Select the Retain lost links __ hours 1 minimum option to configure how long to retain lost links on the topology maps and enter a value from 1 through 9999 in the field The default is 168 hours Click Apply to save your work Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Configuring event based collection If you discover
109. r night value is AM or PM Select the day you want discovery to run from the Day of the Week list Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling discovery on page 109 Contiguring a monthly discovery schedule To configure a monthly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Monthly from the Frequency list Address Ranges Scheduling Preferences Add dit Schedules Scheduled Discovery Cycles Suspend Schedule A Up D Y Down Frequency Monthly vY Time hh mm 09 v 127 AMY 4 Day of the Month 16 Y FIGURE 37 Scheduling tab Monthly 2 Select the time of day you want discovery to run from the Time hh mm lists Where the hour value is from 1 through 12 the minute value is from OO through 59 and the day or night value is AM or PM Select the day you want discovery to run from the Day of the Month list 1 through 31 Click the right arrow button to add the schedule to the Scheduled Discovery Cycles list To finish configuring the discovery schedule return to Scheduling discovery on page 109 112 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Configuring a yearly discovery schedule To configure a yearly discovery schedule complete the following steps 1 Select Yearly from the Frequency list Address Ranges j Scheduling Preferen
110. range in the second IP Address field 4 To exclude an address range using the IP Address format refer to Excluding IP addresses on page 107 5 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Excluding CIDR subnet addresses To exclude CIDR subnet addresses IPv4 and IPv6 complete the following steps 1 Select CIDR Subnet from the Entry Type list Add Edit IP Addresses Excluded IP Addresses amp Up W Down Entry Type CIDR Subnet v IP Address Subnet Mask Bit i aly These are the address ranges or subnets that should be excluded from discovery Communication to a device will not take place if its address is within the ranges specified even if the address is in the Included Addresses FIGURE 29 Exclude CIDR Subnet 2 Enter the IP address in the IP Address field 3 Enter the subnet mask bits in the Subnet Mask Bits field For IPv4 the subnet mask bits is between O and 32 For IPv6 the subnet mask bits is between O and 128 4 To include an address range using the CIDR Subnet format refer to Adding CIDR subnet addresses on page 105 5 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 106 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Excluding subnet addresses To exclude subnet addresses IPv4 only complete the following steps 1 Select Subnet from
111. ration since the last Discovery or Rediscovery cycle Once Rediscovery completes configuration updates display in Network Object view Rediscovering IP devices To rediscover one or more IP devices complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Select the IP devices you want to rediscover in the Discovered Products table For VCS devices if you do not have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account you can not rediscover missing fabric members Select multiple devices by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one device You can select up to 32 devices for rediscovery If you select to rediscover multiple devices you should configure a discovery profile to run in the background For step by step instructions refer to Configuring a discovery profile on page 101 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP Rediscovery 4 For VCS devices rediscovery depends on what part of the fabric you select to rediscover e Ifyou select the VCS fabric rediscovery refreshes the membership information e Ifyou select a VCS member rediscovery refreshes the asset data for the selected member e If you select a missing VCS member rediscovery triggers the discovery of a new fabric VCS enabled or a standalone VDX switch VCS disabled 3 Click Rediscover The Rediscover product dialog box displays If you selected
112. refer to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Adding user credentials on page 89 and Defining global setting preferences on page 97 Discovery of IPv6 addresses The Management application discovers both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of devices that have the IPv6 MIB objects implemented The Management application discovers IPv4 addresses of devices running IPv6 that do not have IPv6 MIB support For more information refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 NOTE lronWare IPv6 devices must support the set of MIBs presented in Table 23 on page 71 To determine IPv6 MIB object support on the device refer to the release notes and user documentation for your IPv6 product NOTE Third party IPv6 devices must support the set of MIBs presented in Table 24 on page 73 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 TABLE 23 IETF standard N A MIB support IP discovery overview 4 IP discovery requires SNMP management information base MIB support on the device for management information collection For a list of required MIBs refer to Table 23 on page 71 or Table 24 on page 73 Required MIB support for IronWare OS devices MIB name Brocade MIB Required MIB object Data collected IEEE 802 1AB LLDP MIB IIdpObjects IIdpRemoteSystemsData For Layer 2 topology information Entire IldpObjects ldpRemoteSystemsData RFC 1213 MIB II mib 2 system mib 2 interface
113. rginal Onine Brocade VOX 6720 24 O swo 17228 5130 sw0 17226 5 130 Router BKN2505G001 Not Reachadie Onine Brocade VOX 6720 24 FIGURE 14 Discover Setup IP dialog box after disabling the node from logical chassis cluster Figure 15 shows the Discover Setup IP dialog box after The Management application has performed rediscovery The node with the IP address of 172 26 5 130 is shown as a degraded link Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 79 53 1002949 01 4 HyperEdge stack discovery K p Fe S o 7 s te Sy Discover Setup IP Discovered Global Settings Profies This tab ists af the discovered P products Products discovery can be started vie Add button here or vis a profile Some P products may appear here as a resuk of a Fabric discovery Discovered Products Products Name P Address Product Type Serial Status State Vendor Model GS sw0 172 26 5 129 sw0 17228 5129 Router Margnal Brocade VESVOX Add C sw 172 28 5 125 sw0 172285123 Router BKN2SOSGOIS Marginal Onine Brocade VOX 6720 24 BD sw0 17228 5130 sw0 172 285 130 Router BXN2SOSG001 Degraded Link Brocade VOX 6720 24 Eat Delete Rediscover FIGURE 15 Discover Setup IP dialog box after rediscovery How the Management application handles a cluster mode change In Network OS release 4 0 an administrator can change the mode of a cluster from fabric cluster mode to logical chassis cluster mode and vice versa For instructions refer to
114. ric OS device At the time of discovery SNMP v3 is not configured At the time of discovery SNMP v3 is not configured for all other switches in the fabric After discovery a device is upgraded to Fabric OS 6 2 or later and is Virtual Fabric enabled however SNMP v3 is not configured Configure the SNMP v3 information for the Virtual Fabric enabled device At the time of discovery or fabric refresh the SNMP v3 user account does not have the Chassis Admin role Make sure the SNMP v3 user account has the Chassis Admin role on the Fabric OS device At the time of discovery or refresh the SNMP v3 user account does not have access to all possible logical switches access to all possible Fabric IDs 1 128 This access is required to obtain performance statistics from all logical switches Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Make sure the SNMP v3 user account has access rights to all logical switches access to all possible Fabric IDs 1 128 on the Fabric OS device 61 4 SAN Fabric monitoring Problem Resolution At the time of discovery or fabric refresh the SNMP v3 user account does not have a matching Make sure the SNMP v3 user account Fabric OS switch user account is also defined as a Fabric OS switch This is required to obtain performance statistics from all logical switches user At the time of fabric refresh the physical chassis is reachable however a previously discovered The log
115. rimary address is determined using the following rules e If you configure discovery to prefer loopback addresses refer to Defining global setting preferences on page 97 and there are loopback IP addresses configured in the product and the loopback IP address is reachable from the Management application server then the loopback IP address is the primary IP address of the product 68 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery overview 4 e If you did not configure discovery to prefer loopback addresses the original IP address used to discover the product is the primary IP address of the product The primary address is the address that appears on the Network Object Manager and other configuration and display panels in the Management application The Management application provides two types of discovery simple discovery and profile based discovery Simple discovery discovers the device with a specific IP address and or DNS name It is triggered by device configuration changes on SNMP traps certain configuration deployments to a device and adding device or rediscovering a device from the Discover Setup IP dialog box Profile based discovery allows you to define the discovery policy It provides more flexible ways to specify IP addresses to discover It also enables you to discover new devices from already discovered devices Profile based discovery uses the following steps to build a list of cand
116. rmission on the physical chassis e 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 e Select the Automatic option to use the default SNMPv3 profile The default SNMPv3 profile uses the following attributes Attribute Value Timeout 5 seconds Retries 3 User name snmpadmint Context name None Auth Protocol None Priv Protocol None e Select the Manual option to configure SNMP and complete the following steps a Click the SNMP tab IP Address SNMP Target Port Time out sec 5 Retries l3 SNMP Version ww Set the SNMP community strings used to communicate with devices Read Default public 2 Custom Write Default private t Custom L OK Cancel Help FIGURE 9 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 52 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN discovery overview 4 d Select the SNMP version from the SNMP Version list e If you selected v1 continue with s
117. rs The password display as asterisks 6 Change the SNMPVv3 read only credentials by completing the following steps a Click the SNMPv3 Read Only tab b Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters c Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA d Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password in the Authentication Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks e Select one of the following privacy protocol types from the Privacy Protocol list e None e CBC DES e CFB_AES 128 If you select a privacy protocol the selected protocol encrypts the SNMP request and response packets f Enter the privacy password in the Privacy Password field The password can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks 7 Change the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c read write credentials by completing the following steps a Click the SNMPv1 v2c Read Write tab Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 127 53 1002949 01 4 128 Individual IP device discovery P Address 10 24 50 203 SNMP v3 Reade SNMP v3 Read Only SNMP v1 v2c ReadiWrite SNMP v1iv2c Read Only _ Read
118. s ifTable mib 2 ip ipAddrTable From mib 2 interfaces ifTable for interface level information e ifName ifDescr ifAlias ifType ifMtu ifSpeed ifPhysAddress ifAdminStatus ifOperStatus ifLastChange From mib 2 ip ipAddrTable for IP subnet information e ipAdEntAddr ipAdEntNetMask From mib 2 ip ipAddrTable for Layer 3 topology information ipForwarding RFC 2465 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IPv6 MIB ipv6MIBObjects ipv6NetToMediaTable ipV6MIBObjects ipv6AddrTable From ipv6MIBObjects and ipv6NetToMediaTable for interface level information e ifName ifDescr ifAlias ifType ifMtu ifSpeed ifPhysAddress ifAdminStatus ifOperStatus ifLastChange From ipv6MIBObjects ipv6AddrTable for IP subnet information ipv6AddrAddress e ipv6AddrPfxLength 71 4 IP discovery overview TABLE 23 Required MIB support for lronWare OS devices Continued IETF standard MIB name Required MIB object Data collected RFC 2863 IF MIB ifMIBObjects ifxTable From ifMIBObjects ifXxTable for interface level information e ifName ifDescr e ifAlias e ifType e ifMtu e ifSpeed e ifPhysAddress e ifAdminStatus e ifOperStatus e ifLastChange RFC 4363 Q BRIDGE MIB dot1qVlan dot1qPortVlanTable For VLAN information 72 Entire dot1qVlan dotiqPortVlanTable Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery overview 4 Table
119. s tab to contact the device e Also try these settings Select to use specific SNMP settings to contact the device If you do not enter SNMP settings or if the settings do not authenticate on the device the application uses the SNMP settings configured in the Global Settings tab to contact the device NOTE You can configure both SNMPv3 and SNMPv1 SNMPv2c credentials at the same time however discovery tries the SNMPv3 credentials before trying the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials 5 Configure the SNMPv3 read write credentials by completing the following steps NOTE These credentials are not applicable for DCB devices a Click the SNMPv3 Read Write tab 122 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Individual IP device discovery 4 Network Address Credentials Try only configured Discovery SNMP settings Also try these settings SNMP v3 ReadiVrite Authentication Type MDS v SNMP viNv2c ReadWrite Authentication User ID SNMP v1 v2c Read Only Authentication Password Privacy Protocol None ai Privacy Password OK Cancel Help FIGURE 41 SNMPv3 credentials b Enter the SNMPv3 user name in the User ID field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters c Select one of the following protocols from the Authentication Protocol list e None e HMAC_MD5 e HMAC_SHA d Enter the SNMPv3 authentication password
120. scovery profile preferences on page 116 Click Start to start discovery To run profile discovery refer to Starting discovery manually on page 118 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Configuring IP simple discovery 82 NOTE The Discovered Products table lists all products discovered through individual product discovery profile based discovery as well as Fabric discovery from the SAN tab NOTE DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery from the SAN tab are automatically added to IP discovery during rediscovery NOTE You must have the All IP Products AOR area of responsibility in your user account to discover new products For more information about user accounts refer to User accounts on page 241 To configure simple discovery complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays To add individual devices refer to Adding an IP device to discovery on page 121 Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP SNMP credentials 4 IP SNMP credentials NOTE The Management application supports SNMPv1 SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 The Management application requires SNMP credentials to obtain information from devices and to deploy configurations to devices Because
121. seakivs 146 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 47 53 1002949 01 4 SAN discovery overview SAN discovery overview 48 Discovery is the process by which the Management application contacts the devices in your SAN When you configure discovery the application discovers devices connected to the SAN The application illustrates each device and its connections on the Connectivity Map topology When you discover a fabric the Management application checks to confirm that the seed switch is running a supported Fabric OS version in the fabric and if it is not the Management application prompts you to select a new seed switch NOTE Discovery of a Secure Fabric OS fabric in strict mode is not supported For a Fabric OS fabric the seed switch must be the primary Fabric Configuration Server FCS If you use a non primary FCS to discover the fabric the Management application displays an error and will not allow the discovery to proceed If the Management application has already discovered the fabric but afterward you create the FCS policy and the seed switch is not a primary FCS an event is generated during the next poll The Management application cannot discover a fabric that is in the process of actively configuring to form a fabric Wait until the fabric is formed and stable then re attempt the fabric discovery After fabric discovery successfully completes all clients are updated to display the newly discovered fabric
122. ses Inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they will be probed it merely permits them to be probed Add Edit IP Addresses Excluded IP Addresses Entry Type CIDR Subnet Y gt Alp P Address Subnet Mask Bit cols _ 4 These are the address ranges or subnets that should be excluded from discovery Communication to a device will not take place if its address is within the ranges specified even if the address is in the Included Addresses Close Help FIGURE25 Profile tab 3 Click Add A new row named new_profile displays in the Discovery Profiles table 4 Click new_profile in the Profile Name field to enter a unique name for the profile This name can be from 1 through 255 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters 5 Click the Address Ranges tab to configure address ranges for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Configuring address ranges on page 104 6 Click the Scheduling tab to configure a discovery schedule for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Scheduling discovery on page 109 7 Click the Preferences tab to configure preferences for the profile For step by step instructions refer to Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences on page 116 8 Click the Global Settings tab To set SNMP credentials refer to IP SNMP credentials on page 83 To configure default user names and passwords refer to Def
123. sses and probes it The first step in probing is to determine whether the device is reachable or not Discovery provides two methods to determine reachability The first method uses ICMP ping to probe the device The second method opens a connection to the IP address currently to the Telnet port This serves as a ping to confirm that the IP address is reachable and some device is listening By default if the device responds by either accepting or rejecting the connection then the connection is closed and discovery continues The next step uses SNMP queries The first query determines whether the device is a lronWare OS or Network OS device or not Discovery rotates through a list of candidate SNMP community strings until it finds one that works For devices that already exist in the database the community string recorded in the database for that device is tried first If you configure discovery to search for neighbor addresses refer to Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences on page 116 the second query scans the device s SNMP ARP table Discovery adds any IP address from the ARP table to the list of candidate IP addresses Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 69 53 1002949 01 4 IP discovery overview Similarly if you configure discovery to search for neighbor addresses refer to Configuring advanced discovery profile preferences on page 116 the third query scans the device s SNMP LLDP FDP and CDP t
124. switches 62 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 SAN Fabric monitoring 4 TABLE 22 Monitor Intervals SAN Size Default Minimum Small 120 seconds 2 minutes 60 seconds 1 minute Medium 900 seconds 15 minutes 120 seconds 2 minutes Large 1800 seconds 30 minutes 180 seconds 3 minutes To change the monitoring interval refer to Configuring asset polling on page 219 Stop monitoring of discovered fabrics NOTE Monitoring is not Supported on Hosts When you stop monitoring a fabric the Management application performs the following actions Stops all data collection for the fabric and all associated devices Unregisters as SNMP trap recipient from the fabric and all associated devices Unregisters as SYSLOG recipient from the fabric and all associated devices Does not perform any scheduled or on demand operations other than monitor on the fabric and all associated devices Removes the fabric and all associated devices from product list topology and all feature dialog boxes Displays the fabric and all associated devices in the Discovery Fabrics dialog box with the unmonitored icon and prefixes Unmonitored to the discovery status To stop monitoring a fabric and all associated devices complete the following steps 1 Select Discovery gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select the fabric you want to stop monitoring from the Discovered Fabrics table Cli
125. t an excluded address range select the address range you want to edit in the Excluded IP Addresses list Click the left arrow button to display the address range details in the bottom Add Edit IP Addresses area Edit the excluded address range by choosing one of the following options e To edit the excluded addresses using the CIDR subnet format refer to Editing CIDR subnet addresses on page 109 e To edit the excluded addresses using the subnet format refer to Editing subnet addresses on page 109 e To edit the excluded addresses using the address range format refer to Editing IP addresses on page 109 NOTE DCB products discovered through Fabric discovery on the SAN tab cannot be excluded Click the right arrow button to add the address range to the Excluded IP Addresses list Click Apply to save your changes Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 IP discovery profiles 4 Editing CIDR subnet addresses To edit the CIDR subnet address IPv4 and IPv6 range complete the following steps 1 Change the IP address in the IP Address field 2 Change the number of subnet mask bits in the Subnet Mask Bits field For IPv4 the number of subnet mask bits is from O through 32 For IPv6 the number of subnet mask bits is from O through 128 3 To finish editing the address ranges return to Ed
126. te Credentials Enable Prompt User Name Port Config Credentials Read Only Credentials Login Prompt User Name Enable Prompt Password E Cancel Help FIGURE 47 Port Config credentials b Change the unique user name in the Login Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters c Change the password in the Login Prompt Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks d Change the unique user name in the Enable Prompt User Name field The user name can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters e Change the password in the Enable Prompt Password field The password can be from 8 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters The password display as asterisks Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 129 53 1002949 01 4 Individual IP device discovery 11 Change the Read Only credentials by completing the following steps NOTE These credentials are not applicable for DCB VDX or VCS devices a Click the Read Only Credentials tab IP Address 10 24 60 203 SNMP v3 Readi rite __ SNMP v3 Read Only SNMP viWv2c ReadWrite Login Prompt Password SNMP v1 v2c Read Only ReadiVrite Credentials Enable Prompt User
127. tep e e Ifyou select v3 the SNMP tab displays the v3 required parameters Go to step i To discover a Fabric OS device not virtual fabric capable you must provide the existing SNMPv3 username present in the switch To discover a Virtual Fabric device you must configure SNMPv3 and your SNMP v3 user account must be defined as a Fabric OS switch user When you discovers Virtual Fabric enabled switch with the SNMPv3 username admin which is the same as the Fabric OS switch user the Management application automatically creates an SNMP username admin in the switch by replacing the sixth username e Specify the Read option by selecting Default public or Custom f If you selected Custom enter the community string in the Custom and Confirm Custom fields g Specify the Write option by selecting Default private or Custom If you selected Custom enter the community string in the Custom and Confirm Custom fields Go to step 7 i If you are configuring a 256 port director select the Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name check box e Ifyou selected Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name go to step m e Ifyou did not select Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name continue with step j j Enter a user name in the User Name field k Enter a context name In the Context Name field Select the authorization protocol in the Auth Protocol field m Enter the authorization password in the Auth Password field e If y
128. the Management application ignores these third party product settings To edit one or more IP devices complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Select one or more IP devices you want to edit in the Discovered Products table Select multiple devices by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one device NOTE You cannot edit IronWare and Network OS devices at the same time NOTE You can only edit multiple Network OS devices that are running the same firmware level Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 125 53 1002949 01 4 126 Individual IP device discovery 3 Click Edit The Edit product dialog box displays 4 Select one of the following options Try only configured Discovery SNMP settings Select to use the SNMP settings configured in the Global Settings tab to contact the device Also try these settings Select to use specific SNMP settings to contact the device If you do not enter SNMP settings or if the settings do not authenticate on the device the application uses the SNMP settings configured in the Global Settings tab to contact the device NOTE You can configure both SNMPv3 and SNMPv1 SNMPv2c credentials at the same time however discovery tries the SNMPv3 credentials before trying the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c credentials 5 Change the SNMPVv3 read write credentials by completing the following steps NOTE These cr
129. the Discover Setup IP dialog box 5 Click Yes on the confirmation message E mailing discovery reports To e mail a report for a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the discovery profile for which you want to e mail a report in the Discovery Profiles table and click Report 4 Click E mail to send the report in an e mail message Enter an e mail address in the E mail Recipients field or click the associated button to select an e mail address from the Users list 6 Optional Enter additional e mail addresses in the E mail Recipients field To send an e mail message to more than one recipient Separate the e mail addresses using a semicolon delimiter Click Send to send the report Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Yes on the confirmation message Exporting discovery reports To export a report for a discovery profile complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Profiles tab 3 Select the discovery profile for which you want to export a report in the Discovery Profiles table and click Report 4 Choose one of the following options e To export the report to a csv file select Export gt Export as CSV e To export the report to an HTML file select Export gt Export as HTML Th
130. the Entry Type list Add Edit IP Addresses Excluded IP Addresses Entry Type Subnet r A Up IP Address Subnet Mask W Down gt These are the address ranges or subnets that should be excluded from discovery Communication to a device will not take place if its address is within the ranges specified even if the address is in the Included Addresses FIGURE 30 Exclude Subnet 2 Enter the IP address in the IP Address field Enter the subnet mask in the Subnet Mask field 4 To include an address range using the Subnet format refer to Adding subnet addresses on page 105 5 To finish configuring the address ranges return to Configuring address ranges on page 104 Excluding IP addresses NOTE To exclude a VCS fabric you must add all members of the VCS fabric to the exclude list To exclude an IP address range IPv4 and IPv6 complete the following steps 1 Select IP Address from the Entry Type list Add Edit IP Addresses Excluded IP Addresses A Up W Down Entry Type Address Range Y IP Address IP Address os m These are the address ranges or subnets that should be excluded from discovery Communication to a device will not take place if its address is within the ranges specified even if the address is in the Included Addresses FIGURE 31 Exclude Address Range 2 Enter the first IP address in the range in the first IP Address field Enter the last IP address in the range in the second IP Address
131. the Network OS Administrator s Guide and the Network OS Command Reference NOTE All cluster specific configurations are lost during a cluster mode change On refresh collection the Management application detects the mode change and retains all database entries related to the cluster HyperEdge stack discovery 80 HyperEdge stacks must contain at least one ICX 6610 device and one ICX 6650 device and all stacking members must be running IronWare 8 0 or later the exact same version HyperEdge stacks support up to 8 units in stack Note that you do not recieve an error or warning message when unit number exceeds 8 However the HyperEdge stack may stop functioning For stacking between ICX 6610 devices use the 40 Gbps Ethernet ports as the stacking ports For stacking between ICX 6610 and ICX 6450 devices use the 10 Gbps Ethernet ports as the stacking ports The 10 Gbps Ethernet ports must have the POD license enabled with 10 Gbps speed On the ICX 6610 device you must configure a 10 Gbps Ethernet port as a peripheral port You can connect the ICX 6450 device 10 Gbps Ethernet port to the ICX 6610 device peripheral port For stacking between ICX 6450 devices use the 10 Gbps Ethernet ports as the stacking ports If the ICX 6610 device have full Layer 2 and Layer 3 features HyperEdge stacking extends the ICX 6610 device Layer 3 and other advanced capabilities to the ICX 6450 device to process packets going to ICX 6450 ports For Hyp
132. the first 10 devices to the server When rediscovery is complete on the first device and the server returns the status to the client the client sends the next device to the server This process continues until rediscovery is complete The Rediscover product dialog box displays the progress status for each product in the Progress Status column If an error occurs the status displays as Failed and an error message displays in the Description column Click Abort to stop rediscovery for any pending devices Note that rediscovery continues for all devices already sent to the server The Rediscover product dialog box closes when rediscovery is complete for the active rediscovery devices 4 Click OK on the Rediscover product dialog box when rediscovery completes Enabling password validation on rediscovery To define global setting preferences complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays Click the Global Settings tab Click the Preferences tab Select the Enable password validation on rediscover check box to enable password validation when rediscovering devices Click Apply to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box Click Close to close the Discover Setup IP dialog box 148 Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01
133. the original seed switch as a separate VCS fabric When the original seed switch rejoins the original VCS fabric the Management application uses the original seed switch as the seed switch for the merged VCS fabric e Ifamember not the seed switch looses connectivity with the VCS fabric but is still reachable from the Management application the VCS fabric splits into two fabrics The Management application treats the member that lost connectivity as a separate VCS fabric When the member rejoins the original VCS fabric the Management application uses the VCS fabric that was discovered first as the merged VCS fabric Network OS 2 0 device limitations VDX devices running Network OS 2 0 0 cannot be discovered directly However if you discover a VCS fabric running Network OS 2 1 0 or later that contains VDX devices running Network OS 2 0 0 the Network OS 2 0 0 devices are included in discovery of the fabric and display on the topology map Network OS 2 0 0 devices have the following limitations e Display as unreachable members in the fabric e Assets ports LAGs VLANs and so on are not collected e TRILL links between Network OS 2 1 0 devices and Network OS 2 0 0 devices do not display Logical chassis cluster mode discovery Logical chassis cluster mode requires Network OS 4 0 or later and is one of two types of VCS modes In logical chassis cluster mode both the data and configuration paths are distributed The entire cluster
134. tion Go to step 5 e To configure CIM server credentials select the CIM server ESXi only option Continue with step 4 If you do not need to configure Host credentials skip to step 8 Configure discovery authentication by choosing one of the following options e To configure discovery with authentication select the HTTPS from the Protocol list e To configure discovery without authentication select the HTTP from the Protocol list Enter the port number in the Port field HCM agent default is 34568 CIM server HTTPS default is 5989 CIM server HTTP default is 5988 Enter your username in the User ID field HCM agent default is admin Leave this field blank for the CIM server Enter your password Password field HCM agent default is password Leave this field blank for the CIM server Click OK on the Edit Host Adapters dialog box If an error occurs a message displays Click OK to close the error message and fix the problem Click Close on the Discover Host Adapters dialog box Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Host discovery 4 Removing a host from active discovery If you decide you no longer want the Management application to discover and monitor a specific host you can delete it from active discovery Deleting a host also deletes the host data on the server both system collected and user defined data except for user assigned names for the device port device node and device enclosure infor
135. u discover devices through profile discovery the seed switch is the principal switch in the VCS fabric 76 If VCS mode is disabled on the seed switch the Management application triggers rediscovery of the other members in the VCS fabric and selects another member to act as the seed switch If the seed switch becomes unreachable the Management application selects another member of the VCS fabric to act as the seed switch If the seed switch becomes unreachable from the Management application and looses connectivity with the VCS fabric the Management application selects another member of the VCS fabric to act as the seed switch If the seed switch looses connectivity with the VCS fabric but is still reachable from the Management application the VCS fabric splits into two fabrics When this occurs the Management application selects another member of the VCS fabric to act as the seed switch and manages the original seed switch as a separate VCS fabric When two fabrics regain connectivity the Management application uses the original seed switch as the seed switch for the merged VCS fabric Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 53 1002949 01 Logical chassis cluster mode discovery 4 VCS fabric split and merge e If the seed switch looses connectivity with the VCS fabric but is still reachable from the Management application the Management application selects another member of the VCS fabric to act as the seed switch and manages
136. u unmonitor a switch in Access Gateway mode that switch is unmonitored from all fabrics in which it is participating If you unmonitor a Virtual Fabric switch logical switch in a chassis only that partition is unmonitored but end devices connected to the Virtual Fabric switch continue to display in the product list and topology with no connections Any other partitions of the associated chassis continue to be monitored If fabric tracking is enabled and you unmonitor a switch fabric tracking continues to track the unmonitored switch If fabric tracking is enabled and the unmonitored switch segments out of the fabric the switch is marked as missing in the Accept Changes dialog box If an ISL connected to this switch is disconnected the ISL is also marked as missing in the in the Accept Changes dialog box If a device connected to this switch is disconnected the device is also marked as missing in the product list and topology If fabric tracking is enabled for two managed fabrics and you move an unmonitored switch from one fabric to the other the unmonitored switches is marked as missing in the original fabric and marked as untrusted in the new fabric in the Accept Changes dialog box If you unmonitor a DCB switch discovered on the SAN tab the DCB switch does not display on the SAN tab but continues to display on the IP tab To stop monitoring a switch complete the following steps 1 Select Dis
137. ure for 256 Port_Director_Name go to step 19 e If you did not select Configure for 256 Port_Director_Name continue with step 17 17 Select the privacy protocol in the Priv Protocol field 18 Enter the privacy password in the Priv Password field 19 Click OK on the Add Fabric Discovery dialog box If the seed switch is not partitioned continue with step 20 If the seed switch is partitioned the Undiscovered Seed Switches dialog box displays a Select the Select check box for each undiscovered seed switch to discover their fabrics b Click OK on the Undiscovered Seed Switches dialog box 20 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Reverting to a default SNMP community string To revert to the default SNMP parameters complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays 2 Select an IP address from the Discovered Fabrics table 3 Click Edit The Add Fabric Discovery dialog box displays Select the Automatic option Click OK on the Add Fabric Discovery dialog box Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Rediscovering a fabric To refresh discovery of a fabric complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt Fabrics The Discover Fabrics dialog box displays Select a fabric in the Discovered Fabrics table Click Rediscover The application triggers all fabric and switch level collectors The status of the refresh displays in the Master Log as an applicat
138. v1i and SNMPv2c credentials If SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c is enabled or if you want to use community strings to gain access to the device define community strings To add a SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c read write community string complete the following steps 1 Select Discover gt IP Products The Discover Setup IP dialog box displays 2 Click the Global Settings tab 3 Click the SNMP tab Add Edit Read Vvrite Community Strings Selected Read Vvrite Community Strings Display Label Ale Community String VW Down This is a list of read write get set community strings that discovery should try when probing network devices These are tried in order until one is found that works so place the most common ones first If no community strings 4 are specified the string private and public will be used for read only community string and the string private will be used for read write community string FIGURE 17 SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c credentials Brocade Network Advisor SAN IP User Manual 83 53 1002949 01 84 4 IP SNMP credentials Enter a unique label to identify the community string in the Display Label field of the Add Edit Read Write Community Strings list This label can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sensitive and allows all printable ASCII characters Enter the unique community string in the Community Strings field The community string can be from 1 through 16 characters long case sens
139. witches that you want to delete permanently from discovery in the Previously Discovered Addresses table 4 Click Delete 5 Click OK on the confirmation message 6 Click Close on the Discover Fabrics dialog box Virtual Fabric discovery troubleshooting The following section state possible issues and the recommended solutions for Virtual Fabric discovery errors Problem Resolution At the time of discovery the seed switch is Virtual Fabric enabled however the user does not have Chassis Admin role for the seed switch At the time of discovery the user does not have the Chassis Admin role for all other switches in the fabric After discovery a device is upgraded to Fabric OS 6 2 or later and is Virtual Fabric enabled however the user does not have Chassis Admin role Make sure the user account has Chassis Admin role on the Fabric OS device At the time of discovery the seed switch is Virtual Fabric enabled however the user does not have access to all possible logical switches access to all possible Fabric IDs 1 128 At the time of discovery the user does not have access to all possible logical switches for all other devices in the fabric After discovery a device is upgraded to Fabric OS 6 2 or later and is Virtual Fabric enabled however the user does not have access to all possible logical switches Make sure the user account has access rights to all logical switches access to all possible Fabric IDs 1 128 on the Fab

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