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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
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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
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Overview
Common Information Model (CIM)
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SMI
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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)
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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
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Removing proxy connections
Login failure status information
Access control
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Mapping an SMI-A user to a switch user
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Setting up default SMI-A user mapping
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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
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Configuring HTTP access
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Importing client certificates
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Exporting server certificates
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Viewing or deleting client certificates from SMI-A server truststore
FIGURE 14
Configuring user authentication
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Encoding proxy connection details
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SMI Agent service configuration and removal
Configuring or removing the SMI Agent as a service
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Port configuration
Configure HTTP and HTTPS ports
Configuring the HTTP and HTTPS ports
Configure ARR and eventing ports
Configuring the ARR and eventing ports
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Fabric Manager database server configuration
Configuring the Fabric Manager database server connection parameters
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Firmware download software locations configuration
Configuring software locations for firmware download
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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
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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
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XML dump
Running an XML dump
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CIMOM server configuration
Configuring the CIMOM server
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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
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Frequently Asked Questions
General questions
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Troubleshooting
Appendix
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Licenses and Attributions
Open source software used in SMI-A
Sun Industry Standards Source License
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IBM Common Public License
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OpenSLP License
Bouncy Castle
GNU Library General Public License
Public Domain
Sun Binary Code License Agreement
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