About setting up switch discovery
A typical switch discovery configuration involves the following steps:
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Install Fabric Insight Add-on on the Management Server and optionally on one or more managed hosts.
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Configure switch discovery for a fabric.
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Select the switch vendor and discovery method.
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Specify the discovery host. The discovery host is used to discover switches.
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Specify the seed switch. You can designate any one switch in a fabric as the seed switch. A seed switch works as an entry point for the discovery of the other switches in the fabric. A seed switch does not necessarily need the latest firmware on it.
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Provide the user credentials and other vendor-specific information for discovering the switches.
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For Cisco switches, SNMP communication is used. For Brocade switches, HTTP communication or Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) can be used. For successful discovery, all switches in the fabric must be accessible using the same credentials.
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View the discovered properties of the switch in the Storage perspective of the Management Server console. For example, information about switches, switch ports, fabric, zones, zone members, initiator, targets, and other properties.
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