How does the OnCommand Insight and Data Infrastructure Insights discover all fabric switches feature work with Brocade switches?
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- 11/28/2024, 9:57:05 AM
Applies to
- OnCommand Insight (OCI)
- Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) (formerly Cloud Insights)
- Brocade Switch
Answer
- The OCI / DII data source will SSH to the switch you specify in the data source configuration.
- OCI / DII will inventory that switch and perform a
fabricShow
command.- With the fabric discovery feature enabled, OCI will parse the
fabricShow
output looking for MAC Adress of switches - OCI / DII will try to determine the WWN of the switch if it is a Brocade device.
- With the fabric discovery feature enabled, OCI will parse the
- After inventorying the first Brocade switch, the data source will then move to SSH-ing to the next Brocade switch it has learned about.
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