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•Brocade 8000 Application Appliance

•Brocade 8470 switch

•Brocade VA-40FC switch

•Brocade 12000 director (only on Fabric OS 5.0.x)

•Brocade 24000 director (single domain only)

•Brocade 48000 director

•Brocade Encryption Switch

•Brocade Multiprotocol Router Model AP7420 (only as a non-proxy switch)

•Brocade DCX Data Center Backbone

•Brocade DCX-4S Data Center Backbone

•The following blades are supported on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S:

-Port blades: FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64

-FC4 port blades

-FC10-6

-FC4-16IP

-FC4-48C

-FCoE10-24

-FA4-18

-FR4-18i

-FS8-18

-FX8-24

What’s new in this document

•New hardware platform supported (Brocade 8470)

•New blade supported (FC8-64)

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this

document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

bold text Identifies command and method names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements

Identifies keywords and operands

Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

Contents

Main Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated Document History Title Publication number Summary of changes Date Page Contents About This Document Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Brocade SMI Agent Chapter 3 Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Chapter 4 Mutual Authentication for Clients and Indications Chapter 5 Frequently Asked Questions Page About This Document How this document is organized Supported hardware and software Whats new in this document Document conventions Text formatting Notes, cautions, and warnings ATTENTION Notice to the reader Additional information Brocade resources Other industry resources Getting technical help Brocade SMI Agent support Page Overview Common Information Model (CIM) C I M SMI Page Page Brocade SMI Agent Start the Brocade SMI Agent Starting the SMI-A Starting the SMI-A as a service Stop the Brocade SMI Agent Stopping the SMI-A Stopping the SMI-A when mutual authentication for clients is enabled Stopping the SMI-A as a service Service Location Protocol (SLP) support slptool commands SLP on Linux, Solaris, and AIX Starting SLP on Linux, Solaris, and AIX Stopping SLP on Linux, Solaris, and AIX Verifying that the SLP service is correctly installed and operating SLP on Windows Installing SLP on Windows Starting SLP on Windows Verifying that the SLP service is correctly installed and operating Disable HTTP for security reasons Connection monitoring Enable multi-homed support Configuring IP address for switch-to-SMIAgent communication in multi-homed systems Configuring IP address for SMI Agent client to server communication in multi-homed systems Brocade SMI Agent Configuration About the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool FIGURE 3 Launch the Brocade SMI-A Configuration Tool Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Linux, Solaris, and AIX) FIGURE 4 Launching the Brocade SMI Agent Configuration Tool (Windows) Proxy connections Reloading provider.xml on fabric segmentation Including multiple switch connection entries from the same fabric in the provider.xml Adding proxy connections FIGURE 5 Removing proxy connections Login failure status information Access control TABLE 1 Mapping an SMI-A user to a switch user FIGURE 6 FIGURE 7 Setting up default SMI-A user mapping FIGURE 8 Limitations of SMI-A user-to-switch user mapping SMI Agent security Mutual authentication setup Configuring mutual authentication for clients Configuring mutual authentication for indications FIGURE 10 Configuring HTTP access FIGURE 11 Importing client certificates FIGURE 12 Exporting server certificates FIGURE 13 Viewing or deleting client certificates from SMI-A server truststore FIGURE 14 Configuring user authentication FIGURE 15 Encoding proxy connection details FIGURE 16 SMI Agent service configuration and removal Configuring or removing the SMI Agent as a service FIGURE 17 Port configuration Configure HTTP and HTTPS ports Configuring the HTTP and HTTPS ports Configure ARR and eventing ports Configuring the ARR and eventing ports FIGURE 19 Fabric Manager database server configuration Configuring the Fabric Manager database server connection parameters FIGURE 20 Firmware download software locations configuration Configuring software locations for firmware download FIGURE 21 FIGURE 22 Debugging and logging options configuration Debugging options for CIMOM Configuring debugging options for CIMOM Debugging options for the provider Configuring debugging options for the provider FIGURE 24 Logging options for the provider Configuring logging options for provider FIGURE 25 Log file examples Capture provider cache information Capturing information from the provider cache Support information collection Collect support information Collecting support information FIGURE 27 XML dump Running an XML dump FIGURE 28 CIMOM server configuration Configuring the CIMOM server FIGURE 29 Configuring log file options Mutual Authentication for Clients and Indications Introduction Mutual authentication for clients Enabling mutual authentication for clients Mutual authentication for indications Enabling mutual authentication for indications Client configuration to use client certificates Configuring a client to use client certificates using a property file Configuring a client to use client certificates using system property values Client configuration to use client certificates for default SSL indications Configuring a client for default SSL indications using a property file Configuring a client for default SSL indications using system property values Configuring a client for default SSL indications using client listener program Troubleshooting Page Frequently Asked Questions General questions Page Troubleshooting Appendix A Licenses and Attributions Open source software used in SMI-A Sun Industry Standards Source License Page Page Page IBM Common Public License Page Page OpenSLP License Bouncy Castle GNU Library General Public License Public Domain Sun Binary Code License Agreement Page Page Page Page Page 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