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Service Location Protocol (SLP) support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 slptool commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 SLP on Linux, Solaris, and AIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 SLP on Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Disable HTTP for security reasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Connection monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Enable multi-homed support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Configuring IP address for switch-to-SMIAgent communication in multi-homed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Configuring IP address for SMI Agent client to server communication in multi-homed systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 3	Brocade SMI Agent Configuration
	In this chapter	13

About the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Launch the Brocade SMI-A Configuration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Linux, Solaris, and AIX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Windows)15

Proxy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Reloading provider.xml on fabric segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Including multiple switch connection entries from the same fabric in the provider.xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Adding proxy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Removing proxy connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Login failure status information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Access control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mapping an SMI-A user to a switch user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting up default SMI-A user mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Limitations of SMI-Auser-to-switch user mapping . . . . . . . . . . 21

SMI Agent security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mutual authentication setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Configuring mutual authentication for clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Configuring mutual authentication for indications . . . . . . . . . . 23 Configuring HTTP access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Importing client certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Exporting server certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Viewing or deleting client certificates from SMI-A server truststore27 Configuring user authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Encoding proxy connection details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

SMI Agent service configuration and removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Configuring or removing the SMI Agent as a service. . . . . . . . . 31

Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Configure HTTP and HTTPS ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Configure ARR and eventing ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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